Finland is set to become the first European country to test a basic monthly income. Two thousand randomly chosen unemployed citizens will receive around $800 CDN per month over a two-year period to evaluate the initiative’s feasibility. The country is already home to a very generous social safety net, which
Good news for the environment, bad news for parents who want to send their children a message on Christmas morning. Finland plans to be the first country in the world to ban coal. The kind-of-Scandinavian country currently derives 10 per cent of its energy from the pollution-heavy rock and wants
What began as a relatively unknown way of life in Finland has majorly taken off – in a variety of ways – across the world. A growing number of babies are sleeping in boxes. It has been a tradition since the 1930s for every expectant mother in Finland (regardless of
The 2015-2016 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship begins this Boxing Day with Canada facing the U.S. at 1 pm ET in the preliminary round. Hockey fans can watch the best under-20 players from around the world as they take the ice in Helsinki, Finland, in the high energy, two-week tournament. Team Canada is
As if we didn’t already know that it was fine and dandy to be a Scandi, here come the Finns with another radical proposal to turn societal norms on their head. Finland’s government are considering giving out a monthly lump sum of money to all its citizens. All adults will
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