This book, updated in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, presents the evidence for the health and wellbeing benefits of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it.

This book presents the evidence for what happens when everyone is guaranteed a basic income, reflecting on a pioneering Canadian experiment and what has been learned since then

Homelessness can be ended in Canada, and in this book leading shelter operators share their experience and their proposals about how this can be done, city by city.

Homelessness, poverty, child abuse, mental illness, bullying, dementia, autism -- the evidence that early intervention improves lives, and often costs society less in the long run.

Enshrined in our constitution, Canadians expect equal treatment and benefits from their government. But when government services come from provinces and not Ottawa, differences can be enormous. Canada's provinces have unequal means to pay for those responsibilities, as the balance of wealth shifts over time. Richard Starr traces the history of equalization and shows how it has been undermined and attacked, and proposes how it can be reframed for the twenty-first century.

First published in 1990, this book charts the emergence and rapid growth of Canada's powerful seniors' movement.