Room to Dream:
Credits & bibliography
Credits
Room to Dream is a project by the Basic Income Canada Youth Network. It was conceptualized and authored by Co-Chairs and PhD students Kendal David and Chloe Halpenny, with support from the entire BICYN Steering Committee.
Quotes from pilot participants are drawn from 68 interviews across two research projects. The first is a collaboration between academics (Drs. Beth Martin, Tom McDowell, and Mohammed Ferdosi) and the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction, on which Kendal worked as a research assistant. It received funding from The Hamilton Community Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Carleton University Faculty of Public Affairs. The other is Chloe's master's research.
Handmade collages make up the majority of visuals in Room to Dream. With her permission, the zine also features a number of photographs taken by Jessie Golem as part of her Humans of Basic Income portrait series, including the cover image.
Advocates and former pilot participants Jessie Golem and Jessica Topfer each authored specific pages of the zine, as noted throughout. We are also grateful for their thoughtful peer review of the zine in its entirety.
Financial support for production and distribution was provided by SSHRC. Room to Dream was created in 2023 on the unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people.
Bibliography
Room to Dream is informed by both original research as well as a number of secondary sources:
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Ferdosi, M., McDowell, T., Lewchuk, W., & Ross, S. (2020). Southern Ontario's basic income experience. https://labourstudies.socsci.mcmaster.ca/documents/southern-ontarios-basic-income-experience.pdf
Income Security Advocacy Centre. (2017). OW & ODSP rates and the Canada Child Benefit as of September 30, 2017. Income Security Advocacy Centre. https://incomesecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/OW-and-ODSP-rates-and-OCB-as-of-Sept-2017-ENGLISH.pdf
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Lorrigio, P. (2018, July 31). Ontario Tories announce changes to welfare programs, plan to scrap basic income pilot. CTV News. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/ontario-tories-announce-changes-to-welfare-programs-plan-to-scrap-basic-income-pilot-1.4035286
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Segal, H. D. (2016). Finding a better way: A basic income pilot project for Ontario. Massey College, University of Toronto. https://files.ontario.ca/discussionpaper_nov3_english_final.pdf
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