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Working toward an economically & socially just Nova Scotia
The Nova Scotia office of the CCPA opened its doors in 1999. We raise debate and propose progressive economic & social policy alternatives that will get us closer to achieving a more economically and socially just—as well as environmentally sustainable—province and Atlantic region.
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Fast Facts: What else could we do with $84 million?
One of the NS NDP’s election promises was to institute an 8% energy tax rebate. In an interview in the initial weeks of the new…
Fast Facts: Let’s Make Poverty Reduction a Priority
In Nova Scotia, 75,000 people—including children, people with disabilities, seniors, parents, and single people— live in circumstances that compromise their health because they are deprived…
Fast Facts: Facts, Principles, and Priorities in Government Budgets
Nova Scotians are again invited to help the provincial government “return to balance”, i.e., reduce the province’s deficit and debt. We are reminded that “if…
Fast Facts: Curbing public largesse to corporations in times of economic restraint
Finance Minister Graham Steele is asking Nova Scotians to pull in their belts to help the government overcome the deficit and pay down the debt.…
Poverty costs PEI over $240 million a year
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. CHARLOTTETOWN/HALIFAX–It is estimated that the total cost of poverty in Prince Edward Island is at minimum between $240 and $320…
Cost of Poverty in Prince Edward Island
Download 360.76 KB7 pages It is estimated that the total cost of poverty in PEI is at minimum between $240 and $320 million per year,…
New Brunswick Tax Reform – ineffective, regressive and unsustainable
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The government’s tax reform package is based on the belief that income tax cuts have the power to…
The Fiscal and Economic Implications of Tax Reform in New Brunswick
Download 605.09 KB30 pages This report reviews the Liberal government’s 2009 New Brunswick income tax reform. On the personal income tax side, the main change…
The Halifax Convention Centre – a bottomless money pit?
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT HALIFAX, NS – The proposed new convention centre has the potential to be a bottomless money pit, cautions…
Convention Centre in Nova Scotia
Economic Wellspring or Bottomless Pit? Download 958.81 KB34 pages Over the past several months, there has been a divisive public debate over a proposal to…
14,000 children in Nova Scotia still living in poverty is 14,000 too many
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX, NS –Twenty-one years ago (in 1989), the government of Canada promised to end child poverty by the year 2000.…
The Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2010
1989–2008 Download 816.28 KB27 pages Since 1999, Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Cards have recorded changes in child poverty rates to track progress on the…
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