NEW RELEASE: Arts and Culture: Nova Scotia’s Undervalued Public Good by Sébastien Labelle
This piece emphasizes the contributions of the art & culture sector to NS, and how these sectors will be impacted by budget cuts.
Read the full piece here: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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The current rate of pay for research assistants and teaching assistants s is $17 per hour, which is far below Nova Scotia’s living wage of $27.60. Individual course instructors make about $5,600 per course which is $3,600 below the national average.
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RAs, TAs, and independent course appointees at NSCAD face low wages & job insecurity. As Larissa Atkinson writes, ”A post-secondary system that relies on a precarious underclass cannot reliably meet its core mandate to provide quality higher education.”
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Last week, the Halifax Examiner covered our community forum with NSACCW, where we broke down what this provincial budget really means for Nova Scotians.
Read the article here: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...
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CCPA-NS director Christine Saulnier made the front page in Chronicle Herald’s print news, which highlighted the community forum hosted by CCPA-NS and NSACCW on Friday.
Read the article here: www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
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These tax cuts are regressive – but they didn’t have to be. The 2026 NSAB advocates for progressive tax cuts which serve to benefit the many, not the few.
Read the full article here: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Read the NSAB here: policyalternatives.ca/NSAB2026
NEW RELEASE: Who Really Benefits from Nova Scotia’s Tax Cuts?
Our analysis reveals who will actually benefit from tax cuts in NS.
Families in the highest income group benefit 11 times more than families in the lowest income group.
These tax cuts also result in a $465 million loss of revenue.
The @ccpanovascotia.bsky.social 2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty on P.E.I. puts the child poverty rate that year at 16.7% down less than 1% from 2022. “There’s a lot of people suffering out there.” www.cp24.com/news/canada/...
Following the tabling of the 2026-2027 budget, CCPA-NS Director Christine Saulnier was interviewed by Global News, where she spoke about where this budget falls short.
Read the full article: globalnews.ca/news/1168928...
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The 2026-2027 NS budget was tabled today, and it calls for cuts to the public sector, and lacks the investment needed in child care, income supports, and affordable housing.
Read CCPA-NS Director Christine Saulnier’s full response to the budget: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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NS is tabling a budget today, and the government is signalling cuts to the civil service and public programs to address a large deficit.
The NS Alternative Budget shows the choices they could have made to meet the needs of Nova Scotians: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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What the Budget Means for Nova Scotians
A public forum on poverty, affordability, and the road ahead, co-hosted by CCPA-NS and NSACCW.
Join us Feb 27 at 12PM AST at the CLC Atlantic Regional Office, 1718 Argyle Street, Halifax, Main Floor meeting room, or Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
She sat down with Global News just this morning to talk about what can be done to tackle poverty as we anticipate the Nova Scotia provincial budget coming soon: globalnews.ca/video/116755...
Christine also spoke with CTV Atlantic about what it means for a family to live in poverty, and the work they need to do in order to get by: www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...
First, Christine spoke with the Halifax Examiner, highlighting the gendered nature of poverty. Support local media by reading this piece in the Halifax Examiner: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/equity/pover...
Following the release of our Nova Scotia Report Card on Child and Family Poverty earlier this week, CCPA-NS Director Christine Saulnier has been speaking with media across the province. Here are three highlights, linked below.
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Here are what report co-authors have to say about the new Report Card on Child and Family Poverty on Prince Edward Island.
Linked here: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Here is what report co-authors and CCPA-NS Research Associates have to say about the new Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia.
Linked here: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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CCPA-NS released the 2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty on PEI today with the MacKillop Centre for Social Justice. Child poverty remained essentially unchanged from 2022 and the number of children living in poverty increased
Read the full report: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Today, CCPA-NS released our annual Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia using 2023 data. In 2023, more than 40,000 children in Nova Scotia lived in poverty.
Read the report: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Read their op-ed published in the Chronicle Herald: www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
Also find a version of the piece on our website: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Hannah Main and Catherine Leviten-Reid in a recently published op-ed: “Nova Scotia should license landlords: Not enough oversight to ensure safe, adequate housing”
This solution is just one of many brought forward in the 2026 NS Alternative Budget: www.policyalternatives.ca/NSAB2026
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Support the work we do at CCPA-NS in 2026. Together, we can make an impact. Donate here: policyalternatives.ca/NSgiving
It is no small task to summarize the year that was 2025. At CCPA–Nova Scotia, it was a year marked by both challenge and momentum, by barriers to democratic participation, and by the growing power of collaboration.
Read the 2025 Annual Report: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Support local media by reading the Halifax Examiner article on HRM Council’s decision: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...
To learn more about the living wage across NS, PEI and NL, check out our full report: policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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The decision by HRM council to end contracts with a company over failure to pay a living wage as part of the Supplier Code of Conduct highlights the importance of enforcing and strengthening the policy
If not for SEIU Local 2 raising the alarm about this issue, would HRM have known & acted?
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@ecologyaction.bsky.social
Civil society groups call on NS government to improve transparency in this year’s provincial budget processes
CCPA-NS, EAC, NSFL, and ACE are calling on the NS gov’t to improve transparency and include us in this year’s budget lock-up.
Full release here: ecologyaction.ca/resources-me...
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To understand who will benefit from the one-time payment for GST credit recipients, and a further ongoing top-up to the credit, read David's analysis.
Read the 2026 NSAB for our proposals on how to make life affordable for Nova Scotians. Both linked here: linktr.ee/ccpanovascotia
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CBC News story on the housing crisis in CBRM interviews CCPA-NS Research Associate Dr. Catherine Leviten-Reid.
Read the full article here: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Read her work on the CCPA website:
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