poverty

Nova Scotia

N.S. saw highest rates of poverty, food insecurity among provinces in 2022

Debbie Simmonds says it isn’t unusual for her to check the cupboards of the Preston Area Food Network’s community shelves…

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Nova Scotia

One in five Nova Scotia children living in poverty, report finds

A new report underlines Nova Scotia’s chronically dismal record on family poverty and affordability. The child poverty rate in Nova…

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Nova Scotia

‘Historic’ single-year spike in N.S. child poverty between 2020 and 2021: report

Nova Scotia·New The report, released Tuesday by the think-tank Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, says 35,330 kids in Nova Scotia…

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Halifax

Halifax poverty rate highest of urban centres in Canada: United Way report

United Way Halifax paints a grim and detailed picture of poverty in Nova Scotia’s largest municipality in its 36-page poverty…

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Nova Scotia

United Way report paints grim poverty picture for HRM, highest urban centre rate in Canada

United Way Halifax paints a grim and detailed picture of poverty in Nova Scotia’s largest municipality in its 36-page poverty…

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Nova Scotia

Her upbringing included poverty, witnessing violence at home. Now she’s a Rhodes Scholar

Growing up with two older brothers who have neurodevelopmental disorders has left Dalhousie University student Diana Adamo with a mission in life…

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Health

Summer now spells fear for some as study shows poverty carried highest risk of death in the BC Heat Dome

When BC was smothered by a blanket of oppressive heat in late June 2021, Q Lawrence and their roommate began…

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