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Empowered with a majority government and new resource revenue, the feds are doing more of the same
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Scaling Up What Works: The future of child care in Canada
Public talk by Morna Ballantyne, Executive Director of Child Care Now, at the Child Care Coalition of Manitoba’s Annual General Meeting, April 15, 2026 in…
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Manitoba can’t afford PC’s ideological tax cut
Previously published in the Brandon Sun on March 19, 2026
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Back to Blakeney: Keeping oil industry super-profits in Saskatchewan
The province has implemented excess profits taxes on the oil industry before. With no end in sight to the Iran war, it should do so…
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Backgrounder: Long-Term Care in Nova Scotia: Pandemic Lessons and Persistent Failure
This backgrounder details the research methodology and full survey findings of the CCPA-NS report Long-Term Care in Nova Scotia: Pandemic Lessons and Persistent Failure.
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Risking the loss of critical ideas and diverse voices: Nova Scotia book publishers facing unprecedented instability
What would our world be like if the only books available to readers eager to learn were published by large multinational corporations?
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Decent or Precarious? Understanding the Quality of Employment in Nova Scotia
The lived experience of workers reveals how far we still are from achieving decent and stable work for all.
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The post-secondary transition experiences of Indigenous and racialized students
CEDA Pathways graduates need more support in their post-secondary transition
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Manitoba housing needs and rental housing data 2025-26
This report provides extensive data to understand housing need and the affordability of rental housing in Manitoba for lower income households.
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Long-term care in Nova Scotia: Pandemic lessons and persistent failure
Between March and September of 2020, long-term care (LTC) workers in Nova Scotia completed an online survey about their work experience during the early parts…
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2025 report card on child and family poverty on Prince Edward Island
Kjipuktuk/Halifax – The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) released the 2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty on Prince Edward Island: Complacency…
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2025 report card on child and family poverty in Nova Scotia
Kjipuktuk/Halifax – The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) released the 2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia: No Real…
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B.C. budget’s hidden austerity and tax increases put fiscal burden on low-income households
BC’s Finance Minister says “this is not an austerity budget.” Let’s look at the numbers and see for ourselves.
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Back to Blakeney: Keeping oil industry super-profits in Saskatchewan
The province has implemented excess profits taxes on the oil industry before. With no end in sight to the Iran war, it…
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Scaling Up What Works: The future of child care in Canada
Public talk by Morna Ballantyne, Executive Director of Child Care Now, at the Child Care Coalition of Manitoba’s Annual General Meeting, April…
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Backgrounder: Long-Term Care in Nova Scotia: Pandemic Lessons and Persistent Failure
This backgrounder details the research methodology and full survey findings of the CCPA-NS report Long-Term Care in Nova Scotia: Pandemic Lessons and…
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Pre-trained in an AI governance vacuum
What a macaque’s selfie reveals about the AI governance gap
