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Flush with cash
This is a remarkable story of economic recovery from the depths of the COVID-19 lockdown impacts. The next chapter will be written by the provinces as they decide what to do with their unexpected budget surpluses.
No one benefits from a two-tiered university professoriate
For many Canadians, a professor is a professor. The truth is that the professional and economic conditions of full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty and contracted instructors are drastically different.
Supporting rural, low-income mothers in Nova Scotia: Pandemic lessons
The COVID-19 pandemic affected the lives of all Canadians, but it disproportionally affected rural, low-income mothers and their families.
Nova Scotia’s minimum wage workers deserve a real raise
The cost of living has gone up but the minimum wage hasn’t kept pace.
CCPA-NS Annual Report 2021
Download 1.34 MB 16 pages In 2021 the CCPA-NS published on a range of important policy issues including child care, labour, housing, poverty, and fiscal…
Nova Scotia health plan leaves out reproductive health
Having campaigned on a promise to fix Nova Scotia’s health care system, on April 22, 2022, new Premier Tim Houston, released Action for Health: A Strategic Plan for Nova Scotia. Despite its stated objective of establishing an “equitable and respectful health ecosystem”, the plan fails to include a single mention of women, pregnancy, sexual or reproductive health.
Reflections on public provision and a radical revisioning of responsibility
Governments need to assume responsibility and lead the way
Priorities that should be reflected in the Nova Scotia 2022-23 budget
Nova Scotians deserve a government that learns the lessons of the past to build a better tomorrow
Consumer protection over profit: Will Nova Scotia’s payday loan regulators get it right this time?
It is past time for our governments to design regulations that actually protect vulnerable borrowers from usurious lenders.
Nova Scotia’s homecare system needs more public funding and oversight
The province has a long way to go in improving its homecare infrastructure
Nova Scotia needs a seniors’ plan that centres conditions of care
We need to build a care economy that recognizes care as a fundamental component of our basic social infrastructure.
Still no paid sick leave for Nova Scotian workers
A mandatory paid sick leave policy will ensure that all workers have access to paid sick leave, regardless of where they work.
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