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Picking up the Tab

The CCPA has calculated how much of COVID-19 spending has come from the federal government and how much has come from the provinces. Overall, 92 per cent ($343 billion) of COVID-19 direct spending initiatives, excluding liquidity and unallocated funds, came from the federal government––compared to eight per cent ($31 billion) from provincial governments.

The Golden Cushion

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CEO compensation in Canada
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Monday, January 4, 2021
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24 pages
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This report looks at CEO pay among Canada’s top-paid chief executive officers in 2019, based on company proxy circulars filed in 2020, and compares this to average incomes in the rest of the population in 2019. Though this same data is not yet available for 2020, the report also estimates, based on company share performance in 2020, whether the top-100 CEOs are likely to have seen their bonus-based pay increase, decrease or stay the same compared to last year.

The Power of Good Ideas: 2020 in Review

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we asked where we could be the most helpful. Then we rolled up our sleeves and never looked back.

This past year, we've worked tirelessly to support and advocate for employees affected by pandemic closures, for essential workers when their hero pay ended while their billionaire bosses continued to rake in record profits, for staff and residents in long-term care homes in need of greater protections.

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Our Schools/Our Selves - Winter/Spring 2021

Build Back Kinder
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Thursday, December 31, 2020

What have post-pandemic school reopening policies revealed about provincial priorities, and how have public education advocates, parents, students and communities responded? Can we take this moment in time to effectively advocate for a vision of public education that is more responsive to student needs, more reflective of the diverse communities our schools must serve, and more aware of the role schools play as places of learning and places of work, particularly in the context of a global pandemic and a growing mental health crisis?

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The Monitor, January/February 2021

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A broader vision of public health
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Thursday, December 31, 2020
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"If we learn anything from COVID-19," write Lindsay McLaren and Trish Hennessy in their cover feature for this issue, "it should be that we need to build and foster a more comprehensive version of public health that acts on what we know about the social determinants of well-being." Economy and health are not separate things, they argue, and public health policy should not be limited to matters of primary care.

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2020 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia

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Willful Neglect?
Release Date: 
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
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54 pages
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Canada has now passed the 30-year mark since the all-party resolution in the House of Commons to eliminate poverty among Canadian children by the year 2000. In Nova Scotia, there is a widening gap between the national child poverty rate and the province’s child poverty rate. While child poverty is anything but eradicated in Canada, it remains an even more looming problem in Nova Scotia.