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The Halifax Convention Centre – a bottomless money pit?
HALIFAX, NS – The proposed new convention centre has the potential to be a bottomless money pit, cautions a new report being released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy...
December 13, 2010 | Nova Scotia Office
14,000 children in Nova Scotia still living in poverty is 14,000 too many
HALIFAX, NS –Twenty-one years ago (in 1989), the government of Canada promised to end child poverty by the year 2000. In 2000, not only had they not kept the promise - the child...
November 24, 2010 | Nova Scotia Office
Poverty costs Nova Scotia over $1billion a year
HALIFAX- The total economic cost of poverty in Nova Scotia is at least $1.5 to $2.2 billion dollars per year, accounting for between 5% - 7% of Nova Scotia’s GDP in 2008. ...
October 16, 2010 | Nova Scotia Office
Nova Scotia must change energy cost politics
Halifax, Nova Scotia – It is time for Nova Scotia to focus on real energy affordability instead of the dubious and opportunistic politics of energy price increases.  In a new report...
October 12, 2010 | Nova Scotia Office
Nova Scotia Alternative Budget calls for a new balance
Halifax, NS – The 11th Nova Scotia Alternative Budget entitled “Finding a New Balance: Building Capacity for Nova Scotia’s Future” was released today by the Nova Scotia office of the...
March 23, 2010 | Nova Scotia Office
15,000 Nova Scotia children still in poverty
HALIFAX, NS - Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Cards have recorded changes in child poverty since 1999. Each annual card has tracked progress on the government of Canada’s 1989 promise to end...
November 23, 2009 | Nova Scotia Office
Alternative Provincial Budget for Nova Scotia – balancing priorities
HALIFAX - The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia released its ‘alternative budget’ today. The NS Alternative Budget Working Group, which is comprised of a coalition of academics...
September 20, 2009 | Nova Scotia Office
The Sky is Falling, the Sky is Falling... or is it?
Halifax, Nova Scotia – Today’s launch of the interim report of the government’s “independent” review of the province’s finances is an exercise in cynical political manipulation, says a new report...
August 17, 2009 | Nova Scotia Office
AIMS misleading the public on gas price regulation
Halifax, N.S. – A new report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in Nova Scotia busts the myth that was created by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) that...
June 4, 2009 | Nova Scotia Office
Priorities in the ‘alternative budget’
HALIFAX- The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia releases its ‘alternative budget’ today entitled Responding to the Crisis, Building for the Future. The provincial budget needs to...
May 3, 2009 | Nova Scotia Office

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