Manitoba basic annual income experiment (MINCOME), 1974-1979 The Manitoba Basic Annual Income Experiment (MINCOME) was conducted between 1974 and 1979 under the joint sponsorship of Canada and Manitoba. It was the Canadian version of several other income maintenance experiments in North America that attempted to evaluate the impact of a guaranteed annual income (GAI) on the work behaviour of recipients.  The specific form of the GAI tested by MINCOME is known as a negative income tax (NIT).   The experimental design of MINCOME featured enrollment of low income households in three areas: Winnipeg (the main site); rural Manitoba (a dispersed sample); and Dauphin (termed a “saturation” site). https://mdl.library.utoronto.ca/collections/numeric-data/microdata/manitoba-basic-annual-income-experiment-mincome-1974-1979 https://umanitoba.ca › mediaPDF https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/LSEE-Research-on-South-Eastern-Europe/Assets/Documents/Events/Conferences-Symposia-Programmes-and-Agendas/2018/FORGET-MINCOME-and-Ontario-short.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjs9-qbw9fqAhUhHzQIHd9uA_8QFjAFegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw2EEX-1xhOdbRErVGZ6C7mV&cshid=1595113028496 Canada’s forgotten universal basic income experiment: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200624-canadas-forgotten-universal-basic-income-experiment

VANCOUVER -- Some family members from Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver say many of the disturbing conditions found in nursing homes in Ontario and Quebec have also been happening here in British Columbia. They are urging B.C.’s premier to reconsider his decision not to hold an investigation into long-term care in our province. Check out the full article by copying the link: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/mobile/families-call-for-investigation-into-long-term-care-in-b-c-allege-disturbing-lack-of-care-for-seniors-1.5016040

A 75-year-old man, whose brutal beating last May at a nursing home in Detroit was captured on video, has died, according to his family. Norman Bledsoe died on Monday following a months-long bout of depression and loss of appetite after the alleged attack, his family told Fox 2 and the Detroit News. Bledsoe's name also appears on an obituary page on a Detroit funeral home's website. *Check out the full article by copying the link: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/elderly-man-beaten-on-video-at-detroit-nursing-home-dies/ar-BB17n85L **When is this going to stop? These are out Grandparents, family members and EVENTUALLY will be US, when we get older. Are we going to stop these 'people mills' for the elderly, that constantly boast their magnificent and tender care of your loved ones, only to starve them and beat them right after they shoo you out the door from a visit? These people should be given the best care possible. They MEAN something - they are human beings, not money chips to fill the coffers of these companies that profit off the deliberate contribution to the demise and downfall in the state of care for the elderly and aid in suffering an earlier death than they probably would've had by living with family. People need to speak up for those who can't: the bed ridden, the alzheimer sufferers, the dementia patients, the wheelchair bound, and other who don't have the strength or energy to speak up.

Video shows what appear to be Uighur or other minority prisoners led away by police Lily Kuo in Beijing Mon 23 Sep 2019 07.56 BST Much of the focus of international criticism of China’s far-reaching anti-terrorism campaign in Xinjiang has centred on the extrajudicial detentions of more than 1 million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in internment and political re-education camps. The number of formal arrests and prison sentences has also increased. According to analysis by the New York Times, local courts sentenced 230,000 people to prison or other punishments in 2017 and 2018, as the campaign got under way. Xinjiang accounts for less than 2% of the country’s population but about 21% of all arrests in 2017. Who are the Uighurs? Hide The Uighurs are a predominantly Muslim Turkic-speaking ethnic group, primarily from China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang. They have been subject to religious and ethnic persecution by Chinese authorities, with rights groups claiming that in recent years more than 1 million people have been held in detention camps.  Having initially denied the existence of the camps, China has described them as “vocational education centres” in the face of mounting evidence in the form of government documents, satellite imagery and testimonies from escaped detainees. Satellite images have also suggested that more than two dozen Islamic religious sites have been partly or completely demolished since 2016. In July 2019 China claimed that most of the people sent to the mass detention centres have “returned to society”, but this has been disputed by relatives of those detained. Around 1-1.5m Uighur are estimated to live overseas as a diaspora, many of whom have campaigned against the treatment of their families. China repeated these claims in December 2019, but offering no evidence of their release.  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/23/china-footage-reveals-hundreds-of-blindfolded-and-shackled-prisoners-uighur