The CERB (Canada Emergency Response Benefit) combines two previously announced streams—the emergency care benefit, and the emergency support benefit. The CERB has two main objectives: Catch Canadians who don’t qualify for regular EI and relieve some of the burden on regular EI by funnelling some of those who do qualify into this quicker-to-release relief program. […]
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Record of employment
Recounting the history of his involvement with the criminal justice system, Steve Deveau traces a line stretching nearly all the way across the country. First, in Yarmouth, where his mother was a single parent and “there was a lot of addiction around the house, lots of different forms of abuse from people who were hanging […]
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Poor history of hiring Black workers continues
The effect of systemic racism damages indiscriminately. Our government, media agencies, educational organizations and construction industry are equally complicit. The federal government signed a contract with Irving Halifax Shipyard without a provision that financial auditors be tasked with ensuring that the contract requires the inclusion of Black Nova Scotians in hiring programs. The provincial government […]
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The film industry by the numbers
Finance minister Diana Whalen may know a thing or two about numbers, but she apparently doesn’t understand Nova Scotia’s movie business very much. Her budget plan to gut the film industry tax incentive has local producers worried that Whalen is going to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. How much metaphorical egg-gold are […]
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The Ivany Report perspective on the film tax credit cut
Dear premier Stephen McNeil and finance minister Diana Whalen, I want to congratulate you on developing and presenting a difficult budget. As a former Commissioner of ONE Nova Scotia (aka the Ivany Commission), I know all too well the financial and demographic challenges of this province. Hard decisions need to be made and new directions […]
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Looking for work can be a full-time job
[Image-1] It starts, at least for me, the night after I send off my cover letter and CV. I rest my head on my pillow and—even though I know I shouldn’t, and I tell myself to stop—I can’t help but begin fantasizing about what my life would look like if I actually got the job. […]
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Job mentality
Halifax’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.9 percent last month, almost on par with the national average at 6.6 percent. Crappy weather aside, a job search in HRM at this time of year can be spiritually exhausting. “But when people have the tools that are required to secure employment, the search becomes much easier,” says Cora […]