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Three big ideas for Canada’s federal fiscal update
Parental leave and health care should be a priority, while implementing a windfall tax on oil profiteers of the war on Iran
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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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Money stories
The Resource Movement members share stories about how they ended up wealthy—and the responsibility they feel to do good with their situation.
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Solidarity philanthropy: Changing how we give to support social change
Philanthropic donors need to step up as advocates to change the system that created the need for philanthropy in the first place.
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Manitoba housing needs and rental housing data 2025-2026
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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2025 CCPA Nova Scotia Annual Report
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,…
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Realizing potential: Reflections on policy responses to displaced persons in Manitoba
Supports available to newcomers under the special cohort-based initiatives for displaced Syrians, Afghans, and Ukrainians model what’s possible for Manitoba, and Canada.
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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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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
