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PEI Media: New Report – 2024 Living Wages for Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
HALIFAX/Kā€™jipuktuk ā€“ For the first time since 2020, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia has released the living wage for Prince Edward Island. The reportā€”which, for…
NL Media: New Report – 2024 Living Wages for Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
HALIFAX/Kā€™jipuktuk ā€“ The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia has released its annual living wage update for Newfoundland and Labrador, in a report that also includes living…
2024 Living Wages for Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
As part of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternativesā€™ (CCPA) continuing work to support living wages, its Nova Scotia office has released its annual living wage update…
Surging youth unemployment demands our full attention
Young people have been hit hard by unemployment this summer, according to July’s labour force report. With the school year set to begin, many young…
Our Schools/Our Selves – Summer/Fall 2024
If we, as educators and as social justice advocates who have dedicated our lives to anti-racism and equity work, find that the limits of our…
World Court decision on Israelā€™s occupation takes aim at Canadian trade policy
On July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion affirming what Palestinians, legal scholars, and many observers have argued for yearsā€”Israelā€™s…
NS Media: New Report – 2024 Living Wages for Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
Halifax/Kjipuktukā€”The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia has released its annual living wage update for Nova Scotiaā€”which, for the first time, provides a broad regional…
Building Inclusive Communities: A Policy Agenda for Nova Scotia Municipalities that Leaves No One Behind
As municipal elections approach in October 2024, Building Inclusive Communities: A Policy Agenda for Nova Scotia Municipalities that Leaves No One Behind lays out ways to turn the…
Political pragmatism vs. poverty reduction
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 22, 2024
Nominations for the CCPA-NS Steering Committee
The Nova Scotia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is looking to recruit committed and passionate individuals to its Steering Committee. This…
Canadaā€™s climate actions must be greatly strengthened to reach net-zero emissions, new report
VANCOUVERā€”Canada faces dauntingā€”but not insurmountableā€”challenges to meet its net-zero commitments, but government policies and incentives must match the severity of the issue in order to…
Leave the patchwork for the quilts: The case for national pharmacare
FEBRUARY 2, 2015 The Canadian Health Coalition (CHC) was founded in 1979 as a public advocacy organization dedicated to the preservation and improvement of medicare.…
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