Canadian province to launch North America's first major universal basic income test in 30 years

Thousands of randomly chosen Canadians may soon receive free checks in the mail.
The province of Ontario just announced that a major trial run of a universal basic income program could begin as early as this summer.
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Universal basic income is a largely untested policy concept in which every citizen would get a regular government stipend with no strings attached.
The idea of such a system has bounced around academic cir