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April 29, 2008
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Nova
Scotia Budget 2008
April 29, 2008
- incl. links to all budget papers
Budget
Highlights (PDF - 84K, 2 pages)
(...) Healthy Communities
* $19
million this year - and $160 million over eight years - will go toward quality,
affordable child care This includes an investment of $6 million to develop about
250 more child care spaces
* $31.7 million toward the Family Pharmacare Program
will make prescription drugs affordable for as many as 180,000 Nova Scotians who
have had no drug coverage in the past
Budget
2008 news releases
- links to six news related releases including
:
* Tax Relief for Nova Scotians * Helping Nova Scotians Stay Warm * Nova
Scotia's Commitment to Debt Reduction * Budget Address * 2008-09 Budget Overview
The
2008-09 Nova Scotia budget by the numbers
Source:
The
Chronicle-Herald
Google Search
Results Links - always current results!
Using the following search
terms (without the quote marks):
"Nova Scotia, 2008 budget"
-
Web search results page
- News
search results page
- Blog Search Results
page
Source:
Google.ca
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From the Nova Scotia Department of Community Services:
Government
Seeks Public Input on Poverty Strategy
News Release
March 5,
2008
The province is inviting the public to share ideas on how to best tackle
poverty in Nova Scotia. People are encouraged to fill out a questionnaire on what
types of actions can be taken to reduce poverty. The public consultations will
help government develop a long-term poverty-reduction strategy for Nova Scotia.
The initiative is being co-led by the departments of Community Services and Environment
and Labour, in co-operation with a poverty-reduction strategy working group. The
group, made up of organizations with diverse interests, will make recommendations
on strategy content and implementation.
There
are three ways the public can share comments:
-- Fill
out a short questionnaire at http://gov.ns.ca/coms/poverty.
--
Fill out the questionnaire at any provincial government building, Department of
Community Services office or Access Nova Scotia location.
-- Request a questionnaire
or share thoughts by calling, toll-free, 1-888-825-2111.
In November, the first phase of consultations was held with representatives from a diverse range of provincial organizations interested in the fight against poverty. The questionnaire is phase two of the consultations. The public's comments will be added to information gathered from consultations across government on a variety of issues that affect poverty.
The deadline to respond is March 31, 2008.
Nova
Scotia Poverty Reduction Strategy:
A request for input on how to
tackle poverty in Nova Scotia
[ version
française ]
A
message from the Honourable Judy Streatch,
Minister of Community Services
A
message from the Honourable Mark Parent,
Minister of Environment and Labour
Poverty
Backgrounder
Research and statistics about poverty in Nova Scotia,
including:.
* How is poverty measured in Canada? * What is the low-income cut-off
(LICO)? * In Nova Scotia, how many people live in low-income? What about children?
* How do Nova Scotia's low-income statistics compare with the rest of Canada?
* What are some characteristics of Nova Scotia's low-income population? * Where
does Nova Scotia's low-income population live? * Is there any way to tell how
poor low-income Nova Scotians are? * Social Trends in Nova Scotia - 2007 * Statistical
Links
Related links:
Framework
for a Poverty Reduction Strategy in Nova Scotia (PDF - 351K, 38 pages)
October
17, 2007
"(...) The framework includes the context, key concepts and strategies
that will be necessary to reduce poverty in Nova Scotia."
Source:
Nova
Scotia Poverty Reduction Strategy Coalition
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Recent additions to the Nova Scotia Department of Community Services website:
*
Our
Kids Are Worth It: Strategy for Children and Youth
December 3,
2007
* Our
Framework for Social Prosperity - Weaving the Threads: A Lasting Social Fabric
November 30, 2007
* Canada-Nova
Scotia Labour Market Agreement for Persons with Disabilities
December
3, 2007
Department
of Community Services
Annual Accountability Report, Fiscal Year 2006-2007
(PDF file -6. 2MB, 38 pages)
The Annual Accountability Report for the Department
of Community Services reports on the progress achieved by the department towards
the goals, priorities, performance measures and financial targets established
in the Business Plan for the same year.
Business
Plan 2006-2007 - Department of Community Services (PDF file - 550K, 33
pages)
Source:
Publications,
Policies & Reports
[ Nova
Scotia Department of Community Services ]
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Nova
Scotia Provincial Budget 2007 Source: Budget Highlights - from the Halifax Daily News Google
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Government Departments
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Community
Services
- incl. links to:
Support
for Children, Youth & Families
- adoption, fostering, child care,
abuse, learning...
Services
for Persons with Disabilities
- community-based and residential support...
Employment
Support & Financial Assistance
- getting and keeping a job, income
assistance...
Assistance
with Housing & Repairs
- affordable housing, repair grants, loans...
About
this Department
- minister, legislation,
publications,
jobs...
Name of the welfare program
Employment Support
and Income Assistance
Legislation
Employment
Support and Income Assistance Act
- Employment
Support and Income Assistance Regulations ===>
main welfare regulations
- Assistance
Appeal Regulations
Source:
-
Consolidated Public Statutes
of Nova Scotia
- Nova Scotia
Regulations
Policy Manual
Employment
Support and Income Assistance Policy
- incl. links to the latest
version of the manual and to revision logs (showing recent changes)
Welfare
statistics
Number
of People on Welfare, March 1995 to March 2005 (PDF file - 133K, 1 page)
Source:
National Council of Welfare
Welfare
rates (benefits)
A
Description of Basic Assistance
Or
Appendix "A" of the Regulations
Latest search results on Google.ca
for
"welfare, -child, -animal, Nova Scotia"
- Web
search results
- News
search results
- Blog
search results
Related links:
*
Department
of Community Services Annual
Accountability Report, Fiscal Year 2005-2006
(PDF file - 2.3MB, 32 pages)
- "...reports
on the progress achieved by the department towards the goals, priorities, performance
measures and financial targets established in the 2005-2006 Business Plan.
*
Business
Plan 2005-2006 - Department of Community Services (PDF file - 320K, 33 pages)
Source: Publications,
Policies & Reports [ Nova
Scotia Department of Community Services ]
* Report
to the Community 2007 (PDF file - 415K, 2 pages) - May 18/07
* Business
Plan 2007-2008 - Department of Community Services (PDF file - 250K, 25
pages) March 23/07
* IMPACT! The
effect of Nova Scotia's new income assistance system on people who need assistance
(PDF file - 155K, 23 pages) November 2003 (from the Nova
Scotia Association of Social Workers )
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Career
Seek: Help [for welfare clients] to Attend Post-secondary Programs
Revised
to December 5, 2007
(launched as a pilot project in October 2006)
---
Career
Seek Frequently Asked Questions (also revised to December 5, 2007)
Related links:
University
welfare rules will help about 300 students
Province makes it easier for
people on social assistance to improve their education
December 5,
2007
About 300 Nova Scotians on welfare have a better chance at a university
education under changes to a provincial program that take effect in January. Community
Services Minister Judy Streatch said last week that changes to the Career Seek
program were coming soon, and she released details Tuesday. The program, announced
in October 2006, allowed people on income assistance to pursue a post-secondary
program of more than two years while collecting benefits. Critics said the eligibility
rules were much too strict, and they pointed to the fact only two people have
enrolled as proof.
Source:
The
Chronicle-Herald (Halifax)
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New
Child and Youth Strategy Released
December 3, 2007
Nova Scotia's
kids can now get more out of life, thanks to a new Child and Youth Strategy released
today, Dec. 3. Community Services Minister Judy Streatch released the strategy
titled Our Kids Are Worth It. (...) The strategy provides a range of services
from prevention to intensive intervention. It is a combination of an expansion
of existing services that work and an introduction of new services.
Some highlights
include:
-- outreach and support for families raising children
-- shorter
wait times and improved mental health services
-- co-ordination of professionals
and programs
-- youth navigators, a partnership with Kids Help Phone and a
new website for youth information and support
-- new programs for at-risk youth
--
provincial youth advisory network
Our
Kids Are Worth It:
Strategy for Children and Youth
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Government
to Hold Poverty Reduction Consultations
October 10, 2007
(starting
November 1)
The provincial government will hold a series of consultations this
fall designed to get the community's input on how to best tackle poverty in Nova
Scotia. The consultations will be part of the government's
development of a poverty strategy for Nova Scotia. The initiative will be co-led
by the departments of Community Services and Environment and Labour.
Source:
Department
of Community Services
Related link:
Poverty
fight needs credibility
October 15, 2007
Many Nova Scotians
would agree that the province needs a comprehensive anti-poverty strategy, especially
to improve the lot of the 19,000 children living below whats conventionally
regarded as the poverty line. But now that the government is promising to develop,
one the question is how sincere the Tories are and when we might see such a thing
implemented.
The government is planning a two-day consultation with anti-poverty
groups and other experts for Nov. 1 and 2, after which a public consultation is
planned as well. The government has been studying anti-poverty strategies in jurisdictions
such as Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec and Ireland.
Source:
The
Cape Breton Post
Report
to the Community 2007 (PDF file - 415K, 2 pages)
May 18, 2007
-
this two-page pamphlet outlines Community Services work in the province --- Employment
Support and Income Assistance (50,000 people assisted per year), family and children's
services (23,000 children received protection services), services for people with
disabilities (50,000 people benefited) and housing (20,000 Nova Scotians in social
housing).
Business
Plan 2007-2008 - Department of Community Services (PDF file - 250K,
25 pages)
March 23, 2007
"(...) The primary responsibility of the Department
of Community Services is to ensure the basic needs of individuals and families
are met by protecting children and adults at risk, and by providing financial
support to persons in need. Most of the departments expenditures are in
the form of direct payments to clients in need of financial assistance or to service
providers who provide residential, vocational, child care, housing, protection
and other social services on behalf of the department.."
Source:
Publications
and Reports
- links to over two dozen links to business plans, accountability
reports and other reports dealing with housing and services for children and families
Income
Assistance for Post-Secondary Education (Nova
Scotia)
October 26, 2006
The Department of Community Services is creating
opportunities for eligible income assistance recipients to get the education they
need for a brighter future. Community Services Minister Judy Streatch announced
today, Oct. 26, a new pilot program called Career Seek which will allow income
assistance clients to attend university or a post-secondary education program
of more than two years and still receive benefits from the income assistance program.
(...) Individuals who have received income assistance for 12 months and have identified
a post-secondary education as part of their employment plan, are eligible to apply
for Career Seek. Over the next four years, 50 individuals each year will have
an opportunity to participate in this program. The first participants could start
their programs as early as January 2007.
Related Link:
Critics
slam school assistance program
October 26, 2006
A pilot program
that will allow 50 people on social assistance to keep their money while attending
university comes up short, critics charge. "I would
have thought this program would have been better thought out by the time we got
here today," Liberal MLA Stephen MacNeil said Thursday as the program was
announced. Community Services Minister Judy Streatch says
Career Seek will help people on social assistance go to university or an educational
program longer than two years. To qualify, applicants must
have received assistance for a year and have chosen post-secondary education as
part of their job plan. They also have to complete a career
assessment to find the right courses to get a job. (...)Streatch
says 200 people will take part in the program over the next four years, with the
first participants starting class in January. The province
has been cutting social assistance for people who want to go to university since
1999.
Source:
CBC.CA
New
Job Opportunities for Income Assistance Recipients
News
Release
September 22, 2006
Nova Scotians who receive income assistance now
have more options to help them on their journey back to work and to earn some
extra money, thanks to a new program from the Department of Community Services.
Harvest Connection is a voluntary program that links income assistance recipients
to job opportunities in rural communities during harvest season. Individuals who
have received income assistance for six months can earn up to $3,000 a year, on
top of their basic income assistance, by harvesting crops like apples, vegetables
and Christmas trees.
Pharmacare
for Children of Low-Income Families
August 30, 2006
Thousands
of low-income families will receive help with the cost of prescription medications
for their children when Low Income Pharmacare for Children begins, Oct. 1. Premier
Rodney MacDonald and Community Services Minister Judy Streatch announced today,
Aug. 30, that applications are now available for Low Income Pharmacare for Children.
The program will help up to 35,000 children under the age of 18 whose families
receive the Nova Scotia Child Benefit.
Minister
Encourages Income Assistance Recipients to Receive Maximum Benefits
News Release
August 28, 2003
"Community Services Minister David Morse
is encouraging all people who receive income assistance and have children under
the age of 18 to file any outstanding income tax returns to ensure they receive
the maximum benefits available to their children."
Helping
Families on Assistance With Cost of School Supplies
August 25, 2003
"The Nova Scotia government is once again helping families
on income assistance buy school supplies."
Nova
Scotians Receiving Full National Child Benefit
December 13, 2002
"Nova
Scotians are receiving the full amount of the National Child Benefit available
to them," said Community Services Minister Peter Christie today, Dec. 13.
"We told Nova Scotians we would end the clawback and we did," said Mr.
Christie."
Source : Department
of Department of Community Services
$500,000
for Child Care Resource and Referral Services
November 20, 2002
"Young
Nova Scotians are growing up great through Early Childhood Development initiatives.
The province announced the allocation of $500,000 to establish 10 Child Care Resource
and Referral Services across the province today, Nov. 20, National Child Day."
Quality
Child Care Through Quality People - June 3, 2002
Portable
Child-Care Spaces - June 3, 2002
Province
Announces Early Childhood Funding
Department of Community Services
November 27, 2001
The Department of Community Services
will immediately begin allocating $7.6 million in federal funding to improve community-based
services to young children and families and to stabilize the licensed child-care
sector in the province. A further $1.5 million of the $9.1 million allocated for
2001 is earmarked for a comprehensive home-visiting program now being planned
by the Department of Health for implementation at a later date
Family
Assistance Program
Department of Community Services
August 27, 2001
The Family Assistance Program provides $250 to families
that have a net income less than $16,500 and have one or more children under the
age of 19. To be eligible, families must not have received any form of income
assistance for more than three months in 2000.
New
Assistance System Addresses Fairness
Department of Community Services
July 13, 2001
Nova Scotia is about to usher in
a new social assistance system with a common rate structure for all social assistance
recipients. On Aug. 1, the new Employment Support and Income Assistance Act comes
into effect.
New
Social Assistance Regulations
Department of Community Services
March 23, 2001
The Nova
Scotia government has approved new social-assistance regulations to help people
move toward self-sufficiency and to help reduce poverty -- especially child poverty.
Province
Introduces Legislation to Redesign Social Assistance
Department
of Community Services
October 26, 2000
The proposed Employment Support and Income Assistance Act
will replace the existing Family Benefits Act and most provisions of the Social
Assistance Act. The section of the Social Assistance Act that supports the Community
Supports for Adults program and long-term care will remain in effect.
New
Social Assistance System Promotes Self-reliance
Department
of Community Services
October 25, 2000
The new program, to take effect August 1, 2001, will provide
enhanced supports to help people secure employment by developing individual plans
for gaining self-sufficiency skills.
Integrated
Child Benefit for Low-Income Nova Scotians
Department
of Community Services
October 23, 2000
New
Income Assistance System for Nova Scotia
June
12, 2000
Nova Scotians are being asked to comment
on the redesign of the province's income assistance system. The new system, which
comes into effect in April of 2001, will help people become more self-reliant.
People can make submissions on this final phase of income assistance reform to
the department by July 31st, 2000.
Social
Assistance Restructuring Updated
May 18, 1999
Press
Release
(the report itselfis no longer available online)
Applications
for Nova Scotia's new Family Assistance Program are now available
July 25, 2000
Replaces the previous
Direct Assistance Program, doubles the amount of money available to qualified
families.
Provides $250 annually to families that
have a net income of $16,500 or less and have one or more children under the age
of 19.
Qualified families must not have received
any form of income assistance for more than three months in 1999.
N.S.
Launches National Family Support Program
May 11,
1999
From Budget
2000 (April 11, 2000) :
- Help
for Families and Children
- Protecting
Pharmacare for Seniors
- Helping
Individuals to Self-Sufficiency
Gone but not forgotten: Family Mosaic
Project "This
study was project-funded and designed to be used internally by the Nova Scotia
Department of Community Services. According to the project coordinator, since
the project is now complete, there is no internal process in place for continued
access to the data. Also, there is no money available to make the data accessible
for external use." |
Child
Care Funding Review Released Strategy
for Early-Childhood Development Released
Children
and Families - Budget Bulletin (Nova
Scotia Budget 2001-02) |
Family
and Children's Services - includes Adoption * Adoption Disclosure * Child
Abuse Register * Child Protection Services * Children in Care * Early Childhood
Development Services * Foster Care Services * Prevention and Family Violence *
Secure Care
Moving
Forward: Governments of Canada and Nova Scotia sign an Agreement on Early Learning
and Child Care Google.ca
News Search Results : "Canada, Nova
Scotia, child care agreement" |
Canada
and Nova Scotia sign agreement to assist people with disabilities This agreement
was signed under the Multilateral
Framework for Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities,
which replaced the Employability Assistance for People with Disabilities initiative
in April 2004. --- Government
of Canada supports employment for Persons with Disabilities in the Halifax Regional
Municipality Related
Link: Source: |
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Health
-
incl. links to : About the Department - Media Releases - Employment Information
- Programs and Services - Links - Reports - FAQs - Key Health Initiatives - Site
Map
Provincial
Government Invests More in Pharmacare
News Release
February
27, 2004
"The Nova Scotia government is investing an additional $12 million
in the Seniors Pharmacare program in 2004-05...."
Source:
Department
of Health
Related Links:
Nova
Scotia Pharmacare (Dept. of Health website)
N.S.
govt to take extra $2.4 million in Pharmacare premiums from seniors
March
1, 2004
"HALIFAX (CP) - Nova Scotia's Tory government will take in an
extra $2.4 million in Pharmacare premiums from seniors in the coming budget year.Health
Minister Angus MacIsaac announced the increase Friday as he outlined improvements
to the plan. He says each senior in the program will end up paying an extra $54
a year."
Source:
canadaeast.com
Senior
Citizens' Secretariat
"The Senior Citizens' Secretariat works
with seniors and their organizations on programs, services and activities that
are important to their quality of life. As of April 1, 2000 the chair of the Secretariat
was transferred to the Minister of Health."
A
Statistical Profile of Nova Scotia Seniors (PDF file - 1MB, 62 pages)
July
2003
"The statistical profile encompasses a range of topics from education
and health to leisure and finances. Facts, graphs and statistics help paint a
clear picture of the 65+ population. Populations projections provide insight into
the future as our population ages. The report is aimed at those who work with
seniors and is being distributed throughout the province." News Release:
Statistical
Profile Released
July 22, 2003
"Nova Scotia's seniors make
up 13.7 per cent of the province's population and their numbers will increase
dramatically in the future, says a new publication that analyzes Nova Scotia's
aging population."
Also from the Senior Citizens' Secretariat :
Programs
for Seniors 2006 (PDF file - 9.8MB - LARGE
download , 148 pages)
Suggestion to the Senior
Citizens' Secretariat web team:
- if you don't want seniors to expire at their
computers waiting for this giant download from the Web, you can do *two* PDF versions
--- one with all the fancy graphics and stuff (i.e., 9.8MB), and the other with
formatted text only.
The average size of a simple PDF file shouldn't be more
than 3-4 KB per page.
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Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations
Online interactive and information services of the Government of Nova Scotia
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Home page/sitemap
Budget
Documents (1995-96 to date, all on one page)
Public
Accounts - 1996 to date
Economic
Indicators
News
Releases
Publications
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Nova Scotia Budget 2006-2007 - main page, includes links to all budget papers
Budget
Papers and Budget Bulletins - 15 budget documents, mostly bulletins,
for
example:
- Budget
Bulletin: Focus on Families in Need - increases to income assistance
rates and foster care allowances, extension of Pharmacare to cover kids in low-income
working families and improvements to affordable housing and home repair programs
-
Budget Bulletin:
Families - "[T]he province will provide
a credit to parents to offset provincial taxes on the full value of the federal
Universal Child Care Benefit." --- also includes Protecting Homes and Neighbours,
Protecting Consumers, Making Smart Energy Choices, Provincial Parks and Studying
the Impact of Gaming
N.S.
tables tax-cutting budget on eve of election
May. 9 2006
Canadian
Press
HALIFAX -- Nova Scotia's ruling Conservatives offered a voter-friendly
budget Tuesday loaded with tax cuts and generous spending as the province gears
up for an election call - expected within days. Rookie Premier Rodney MacDonald
is borrowing a pre-campaign pledge from the New Democrats, promising to give consumers
a rebate equivalent to the eight per cent provincial sales tax on soaring home
heating bills.
Source:
CTV
Google.ca
News Search Results:
"Nova Scotia
Budget 2006"
Google.ca Web Search Results:
"Nova
Scotia Budget 2006"
Source:
Google.ca
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Nova
Scotia Budget 2005-2006
April 26, 2005
- incl. links to all Budget
2005-06 documents: Budget Address - Highlights - Bulletins - Estimates Supplementary
Detail - Crown Corporation Business Plan - Government Business Plan - Business
Plans - Other Budget Links
Budget
Address (HTML)
Budget
highlights (PDF - 289K, 2 pages)
"(...) More Support for Nova
Scotians in Need --- Well over $40 million more will be spent to support the needs
of seniors, Nova Scotians with disabilities, and families of modest means. New
dollars will be targeted to increase the number of low-incoming housing units
and subsidized daycare spaces; make more buildings wheelchair accessible and accessible
transportation more affordable; increase the shelter allowance for single income
assistance recipients and the personal allowance for all social assistance recipients;
triple the funding for the early treatment of autism; provide more support for
adults in care; expand personal care hours to home care clients; and expand Self-Managed
Attendant Care."
Google.ca News
Search Results : "Nova Scotia Budget 2005"
Google.ca
Web Search Results : "Nova Scotia Budget
2005"
Source:
Google.ca
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Nova
Scotia Budget 2004-2005
April 22, 2004
- incl. links to all Budget
2004-05 documents, including Address and Highlights (see below), as well as budget
bulletins, the Government Business Plan, the Crown Corporation Business Plan,
Estimates and more
Budget
Address
Budget
Highlights (PDF file - 409K, 2 pages)
Google
News search Results : "Nova Scotia, budget
2004"
Google Web Search Results : "Nova
Scotia, budget 2004"
Source:
Google.ca
For info on other Canadian jurisdictions' budgets, go to the Canadian Social Research Links Canadian Government Budgets page
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Bills,
Statutes and regulations
Monthly
Checklist
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Nova
Scotia Human Rights Commission
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Nova
Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women (NSACSW)
The Advisory
Council was established in 1977 to educate the public and advise the provincial
government on issues of interest and concern to women. Check out the home page
(by clicking above) or go to the Council's Publications
page - it offers an impressive choice of reports, fact sheets and media releases,
including:
Building Transitions to
Good Jobs for low Income Women
July 7, 2004
By Stella Lord and Anne
Martel
"This report is about low-income women in Nova Scotia and their
options for moving out of poverty. It was prepared for the Nova Scotia Advisory
Council on the Status of Women on the recommendation of its Round Table on Womens
Economic Security. The report focuses on what kind of transition-to-employment
strategies and best practices would provide a better foundation to enable women
in Nova Scotia to move out of poverty into more stable, well-paid employment."
Complete
report (PDF file - 249K, 70 pages)
Summary
and Recommendations (PDF file - 150K, 7 pages)
Report
Highlights Women's Economic Inequality Double Workload
June
14, 2004
Status of Women
"Nova Scotia women are still striving for
economic equality and a better balance of responsibilities at work and at home,
according to a statistical report released today, June 14. Women's Paid and Unpaid
Work is the fifth report in a series from the Advisory Council on the Status of
Women."
News
Release
Backgrounder
(PDF file - 8K, 2 pages)
Complete report:
Womens
Paid and Unpaid Work (PDF file - 169K, 67 pages)
Women in Nova
Scotia (Part 5 of a Statistical Series)
Advisory Council Publications - impressive list of reports, studies, briefs and statistics, including Informational and Statistical (where you'll find links to earlier reports in this statistical series)
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Employment
Insurance Changes Needed
Status of Women
May 7, 2004
"Mothers
need better support from the federal government to help care for their families,
the chair of the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women says in an
open letter to Liza Frulla, Minister of Social Development, and Joseph Volpe,
Minister of Human Resources Development."
- incl. a copy of the open letter
Source:
Nova
Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women
[ Government
of Nova Scotia ]
Related Link: Maternity
benefits not available to those who need them most |
Time
for a New Royal Commission on the Status of Women?
News Release
October 22, 2002
"The national coalition of provincial and territorial
advisory councils on the Status of Women is calling on the federal government
to re-examine the state of women's equality in Canada."
Women
and Healthcare: A Brief to the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada
June 2002
Rebuilding
the System (January 1999)
Response of the NS Advisory Council
on the Status of Women to the Department of Community Services' Social Assistance
Restructuring Initiative
Brief
to the Federal Standing Committee on Finance (August 1998)
- includes
information on the CHST and the social deficit, the NCB, the impact of social
program reforms on women in the Atlantic provinces, senior women and Aboriginal
women and their children
NSACSW
Web Links
Over 200 links organized under the following headings: Children
and Child Care - Legal and Justice issues - Education - Policy and Research -
Employment/ Business - Women in Science and Technology - Equity Groups (ie: women
of colour, women with disabilities) - Women's Organizations/Agencies - Government
Nongovernmental - Health issues
Violence Prevention
NSACSW
Links to Women's Organizations
- large collection of links to NGOs,
sites about children and child care, policy and research sites, education, employment,
business and more. All links except those to government sites include a short
site description
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Nova
Scotia Disabled Persons Commission
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Other Nova Scotia Sites - Autres sites de Nouvelle-Écosse
Child
poverty in Nova Scotia: The facts (PDF file - 370K, 9 pages)
November
24, 2007
By Pauline Raven, Lesley Frank and Renee Ross
Related link:
Campaign
2000 Report on Child and Family Poverty in Canada
Main page - includes
links to both the French and English media releases and reports, as well as links
to national report cards for previous years and for selected Canadian provinces.
[
Campaign 2000 ]
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How
to reduce poverty? Begin by knocking down barriers
By
Katherine Reed
Letters/Opinion
September 26, 2007
It wont be difficult
to identify the causes of poverty in this province and to lay out strategies for
dealing with them. Just ask a few poor people what would turn their economic fortunes
around. Youll probably come away with a list like this: a higher minimum
wage, more affordable housing, a better welfare system, reforms to the Employment
Insurance system so that most (instead of less than half) of the unemployed can
get benefits, a provincewide affordable and accessible public transportation system,
affordable post-secondary education, affordable child care, and sustainable rural
economic development.
Source:
The
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax
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Service
Canada Regional Information:
Nova Scotia
This
page provides information on region-specific services for Individuals, Business
and Organizations.
Services include: Jobs * Financial Benefits * Employment
Insurance * Taxes * Training and Careers * Identification Cards * Travel and Passports
* Health * Consumer Information * Canada and the World * Environment and Resources
* Economy * Public Safety * Culture and Recreation * Science and Technology.
Source:
Service
Canada
Human Resources and Social Development
Canada
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Council
of Atlantic Premiers
This web site provides information on:
*
the Council of Atlantic Premiers (CAP),
* the Council of Maritime Premiers
(CMP), and
* the Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian
Premiers (NEG/ECP)
The website also provides convenient
online access to Council publications, employee contact information, and to regional
agencies and organizations as well as providing information on Working Together
for Atlantic Canada: An Action Plan for Regional Co-operation (PDF- 492k, November
8, 2001).
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Nova
Scotia Public Interest Research Group (NSPIRG)
NSPIRG is a
non-profit, non-partisan social and environmental justice research and resource
centre. Our mandate is to empower, educate, and inspire action on social justice
and environmental issues at Dalhousie University, as well as in the broader Halifax
community and Nova Scotia generally. We are a student and volunteer-driven organization
working within an anti-oppression framework, and providing a range of events,
opportunities, working groups, and campaigns to community members.
- incl.
links to: Home - About Us - Events Calendar - Working Groups - Library - Funding
- Links - Media - Contact Us - Advanced Search - Single Mothers' Survival Guide
Single
Mothers Survival Guide - (Nova Scotia focus)
2006
In
1989, single mom and activist Brenda Thompson, published the first Single Mothers
Survival Guide. The guide recognized the economic, social, and political hardships
experienced by single mothers and offered specific and practical information on
how to cope when living in poverty in the metro-Halifax area. This is the online
version of the fifth edition of the book.
- incl. links to : Introduction - Single Mothers and Poverty Laws in NS - Social Assistance - Attitudes Towards "Welfare" Mothers - Legal Aid - Maintenance and Child Support - Children's Aid and Child "Welfare" - Employment - Education - Daycare - Housing - Transition Houses - Food and Food Banks - Sex Lives of Single Moms! - How To Become Politcally Active - Single Mothers Speak - Numbers to Know in Nova Scotia
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Workfare
program fails women: report
May 25, 2006
"Provincial rules
designed to get people off welfare and into the workforce are not working, according
to a new study.The research project was done on behalf of women's centres in Antigonish,
Sydney and Pictou County. The report, Struggling to Survive, was released Wednesday.Co-ordinator
Rene Ross travelled to 11 communities last summer and spoke with 91 women who
were on or had been on the Employment Support and Income Assistance (ESIA) program.
(...) The report makes several recommendations, including abolishing the parental
leave policy, raising the allowance rates by $75 a month, and letting women keep
a greater share of their earnings."
Source:
CBC
News Nova Scotia
Related Link:
Poverty
group: Welfare system needs reform
Source:
The
Chronicle Herald
Complete report and companion document:
Struggling
to Survive: Women on Employment Support & Income Assistance (ESIA) in
Nova
Scotia Provide Their Key Recommendations for Policy Reform (PDF file
- 406K, 30 pages)
January 2006
Survival
Strategies: Women on Employment Support & Income Assistance (ESIA) in
Nova
Scotia Provide Their Key Recommendations for Policy Reform (PDF file
- 250K, 21 pages)
May 2006
Partnering Womens Centres:
Antigonish
Womens Resource Centre
Pictou
County Womens Centre
Every
Womans Centre, Sydney
Funded by
Status
of Women Canada, Womens Program
May 2006
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Nova Scotia Office - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Low-Income
Families With Children Owed First Call on Government Surpluses
Press
Release
November 24, 2006
HALIFAX - Authors of Nova Scotia's Child Poverty
Report Card say each tax cut for an economically secure Canadian is a broken promise
to a child living in poverty. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives releases
an annual report to record changes in the rates of child and family poverty each
November. This year gives statistics for 2004, and shows there were well over
one million (1,195,804) Canadian children living in families where income was
below the Low-Income Cutoff 33,791 living in Nova Scotia.
Complete report:
The
Nova Scotia Child Poverty
Report Card 2006: 1989-2004 - PDF File,
358K, 29 pages)
by Pauline Raven, Lesley Frank &
Rene Ross
November 24, 2006
Source:
Nova
Scotia Office of the
Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives
Related Links from Campaign 2000: Canadas
Child Poverty Levels not Budging - Oh
Canada! Too Many Children in Poverty for Too Long [pdf, 6pp, 311KB] |
Single
parent students have to choose between family needs and attending university
Press
Release
December 8, 2005
"HALIFAX: Single parents face a monthly shortfall
of between $180 and $415 while attending university according to study released
today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The study, Fairness
in Education for Single Parents in Nova Scotia, presents the first detailed
examination of income and expenses for single parent-university students in Nova
Scotia. The author, Katherine Reed, of the Antigonish Womens Resource Centre,
examined what would be the income and expenses of several single parent families,
if the heads of the families were university students."
Complete report:
Fairness
in Education for Single Parents in Nova Scotia (PDF file - 261 K,
20 pages)
December 2005
Source:
Nova
Scotia Office
[ Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives - CCPA ]
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Nova
Scotia makes poor showing on child poverty report
Press
Release
November 24, 2005
"HALIFAX: Child poverty in Nova Scotia has
increased for the fourth year running and now stands at 20.7 percent, according
to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The
Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card, published annually since 1999, says this
now puts one in five Nova Scotia children at risk of the many negative outcomes
related to poverty, including poorer nutrition, poorer health, greater likelihood
of failing in school and decreased economic prospects as they enter adulthood.
Nova Scotia children in female lone-parent families are four times more likely
to be affected than those in two-parent families. The report also finds that Nova
Scotia continues to make less progress in reducing the rate of child poverty than
any other province in the region."
Complete report:
The Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2005: 19892003 (PDF File - 508K, 20 pages)
Source:
The
Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2004 (30pp, 839KB) Related Links: Child
poverty: setting new goals Complete report: One
million too many: Implementing solutions to child poverty in Canada Source: Source: |
Employment
Support and Income Assistance Report Released - Nova Scotia (welfare) IMPACT!
The effect of Nova Scotia's new income assistance system on people who need assistance |
Homelessness
in Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM): A Portrait of Streets & Shelters
January
2004
"The Halifax Regional Municipality Planning and Development department
has recently instituted a
webpage devoted to housing and homelessness in the Halifax area. In PDF
format the 89 page report The Portrait of Streets and Shelters represents
the first effort of the Halifax Regional Municipality to support the need for
base knowledge on homelessness and related social issues."
[ Halifax
Regional Municipality ]
Source:
PovNet
(BC-based poverty network)
Complete report:
The
Portrait of Streets and Shelters (PDF file - 3.2MB, 89 pages)
January
2004
A
Workbook on Food Security & Influencing Policy
Developed by
the Food Security Projects
- incl. links to: Intro (Food for Thought) - What
are we talking about? - Why care about food insecurity - What can we do about
it? - What is policy? - How can we influence policy? - Strategies for Action -
Resources and Tools - Fact Sheets and Handout - About this Workbook - How to use
this Workbook - Questions Behind the Workbook - Acknowledgements - Bibliography
Bibliography
and Useful Resources
- links to 50+ sites organized under the following
headings : General Food Security Websites - Defining Food
Security - Food Security, Families & Children, Communities,
& Health - Food Security, the Environment and the Economy
- Addressing Food Security - The
Policy Process, Implementing Policy & Influencing Public Policy - Provincial/Territorial
Food Security Groups
Source:
Atlantic
Health Promotion Research Centre
Nova
Scotia Nutrition Council
Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union (NSGEU)
Nova
Scotia Child Poverty Report Card
November 2000
From the Annapolis Valley-Hants Community Action Program for Children
Excellent report - Includes links to the following: What
- Define - How? - Statistics - Causes - Impacts - Ending - Contacts
View the report card online by clicking above, or...
Download
the complete report (Word format, 17 pages, 376K)
Nodice
Elections: Nova Scotia
Source:
Nodice
Elections
- Go to the Political Parties and Elections Links in Canada
(Provinces and Territories) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/politics_prov_terr.htm
GPI
Atlantic - Genuine Progress Index for Atlantic Canada
"GPI
Atlantic is a non-profit research group, founded in 1997, to develop an index
of sustainable development and well being - the Genuine Progress Index. The Nova
Scotia GPI consists of 22 social, economic and environmental components, including:
Time Use - Natural Capital - Environment/Quality - Socioeconomic issues - Income
Distribution - Social Capita"
- incl. links to : About Us | GPINews
| Publications | Presentations | Articles/Press Releases | Media Clippings | Community
GPI | Membership | Current Activities | Services | Directors/Researchers | Book
Store | Search | Links | Environment | RealityCheck
GPI Atlantic PowerPoint Presentations - links to almost two dozen PowerPoint GPI presentations from various conferences and seminars from 2001 to 2003 on topics ranging from agriculture to smoke-free workplaces.
RealityCheck:
The Canadian Review of Wellbeing is quarterly newsletter produced
jointly by the Atkinson Charitable Foundation and GPI Atlantic. RealityCheck promotes
the creation of a reliable and statistically valid Canadian Index of Wellbeing;
reports on important existing indicator work measuring social, economic and environmental
wellbeing in Canada; and ensures that these new measures of progress get the same
policy attention that leaders, economists and journalists currently devote to
tracking whether our economy is growing or shrinking.
- incl. links to four
issues of the newsletter going back to October 2001
Atlantic
Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) Five
year report to Parliament, 1998-2003 (PDF file - 1.7MB, 86 pages) |
| Another
Look at Welfare Reform (Autumn 1997) - an in-depth analysis by the National Council of Welfare of changes in Canadian welfare programs in the 1990s. The report focuses on the provincial and territorial reforms that preceded the repeal of the Canada Assistance Plan and those that followed the implementation of the Canada Health and Social Transfer. Complete report online - large file (300K+) but well worth the wait for detailed information on welfare reforms in the 1990s in each Canadian jurisdiction, as well as a national overview of the broad issues of welfare reform and the setting for welfare reform in Canada Source : National Council of Welfare |
Atlantic
Institute for Market Studies
- includes many
reports and studies on CPP, transfer payments, UI reforms, pensions, the fishery,
the welfare trap, etc.
Community
Organization Network
"The Community Organization
Network links people in Nova Scotia with disabilities and health challenges to
resources and services that promote active healthy independent living"
Great resource for people with disabilities in Nova Scotia - hundreds of
links to support organizations, and plenty of excellent content...
WORKink
Nova Scotia - "The Virtual Employment Resource Centre"
Career and Employment Resources for Persons with Disabilities
- Links to a wide range of information
for people with disabilities and those who support them.
Source:
Canadian
Council on Rehabilitation and Work
Nova
Scotia WorkinfoNET (NSWIN) - "Nova Scotia WorkinfoNET (NSWIN) is part
of the pan-Canadian Canada WorkinfoNET partnership. Our goal is simple. We want
to harness the delivery power of the Internet by creating a "clearing house" web
site for dispensing information relevant to the needs of current and future members
of Nova Scotia's work force".
Incl. links
to information in the following areas: Financial Help and Issues - Jobs, Work
and Recruiting - Labour Market Information and Outlook - Learning, Education and
Training - Self Employment - Workplace Issues and Supports - Occupations and Careers
List of issues to be taken up in
connection with the consideration of the third periodic report of Canada :
United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - Implementation
of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (June 10,
1998)
Nova Scotia Government
Response to the List of Issues - November 1998
Links
to Sites Working for Positive Social Change and Social Justice (Chebucto Community
Net)
Child Care Connection
Halifax
Regional Municipality Home Page
Legal
Information Society of Nova Scotia
Union
of Nova Scotia Municipalities
Virtual
Nova Scotia Home Page
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