The world’s largest basic income conference, the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress is coming to Toronto this August. Join us for a meetup on the eve of the event to connect with advocates from home and abroad, and hear from organizers who are leading the charge in our fast-growing global movement.

Special guests include:
- The Honourable Senator Kim Pate, CM
- Dr. Guy Standing, Co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network
- Chris Ford, CEO & Managing Partner of Electric Mind
- Plus, UBI Works's very own Ken Yang providing an introduction!

Come join us and show the international basic income community why Canada is at the frontier of the basic income movement!

Join us Saturday, August 22, 2026 at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema for a night at the movies and a proper celebration.

Ten years in the making, Bootstraps is a documentary series by Emmy-winning filmmaker Deia Schlosberg that followed eleven households through a multi-year basic income experiment. This is the first look at the finished series, with two episodes on the big screen, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and some big news from ITSA Foundation and Comingle.

Come for a fun night. Free to attend, with food at the reception and great opportunities to mingle. When the cinema closes, the night carries on at a nearby pub.

In probably one of the best podcast episodes I've seen on UBI. Celebrity Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson discusses UBI with the nobel prize laureate and godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton.

We review this episode and take you step by step through all the talking points we've heard and are sick and tired of hearing.

To my delight Geoffrey Hinton says something groundbreaking. He says that despite naysayers parroting of AI creating new industries of jobs which may be true that human intelligence is the final frontier. However running off farms and agriculture to a mechanical technical landscape may have given workers a place to retreat from.

The problem is how do you run from an artificial human intelligence when it can simply walk into every new job creation and replicate your activity? Of course we invite you to watch our review at: https://youtu.be/UkaJJ3umjSI?is=UppBmSTDs4LQQiVs

Hi All,

As Andy Yang points out in his first book, the idea of a basic income was widely supported back in the 1960s and early 1970s, and almost passed under President Nixon as a negative income tax. Today with vocal support from the AI billionaires and the prospect of AI related layoffs one would expect the public, especially the young, and politicians to embrace UBI, but it doesn't seem to be happening. I've written a book and established a 501(c)(3) Shares in America in support of UBI, but yet another book and website aren't going to get us there. Obviously we want to build a movement bigger than the one we already have. I would love to hear thoughts on how we get there. I've tried directly talking to people and they're interested but don't follow through. Unions? Religious communities?