In 2022, the province’s population grew by 7.7 people for every home completed—the second-lowest ratio in Canada.
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By December 2020, a large body of research showed that children represented two per cent or less of diagnosed COVID cases.
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Wages in the mining-sector are more than 40 per cent higher than the average in all other sectors in the province.
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The province's top combined income tax rate is 54 per cent.
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The average family in the province will pay more than 45 per cent of its income in taxes this year.
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A lower employment rate also has implications for government finances.
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The government promised to add 1,500 spots by the end of 2022, but instead added just 400.
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In 2017, the provincial government spent $310 million on corporate welfare.
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The budget projects a deficit of $278.9 million this year.
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The available data suggest that many Nova Scotians would like to see their taxes reduced.