Between 2021 and 2022, the poverty rate in the province shot up from 8.6 per cent to 13.1 per cent, according to newly released data from Statistics Canada. Nearly 30 per cent of Nova Scotians were also food insecure, the agency said. Both rates are the highest among the provinces.
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While Nova Scotia's Direct Family Support for Children program is meant to provide financial aid to families of kids with disabilities, many kids with autism are being denied the funding because they don't meet the province's definition of an intellectual disability.
Residents first opposed a location for 15 tiny homes in Kentville, N.S., and there's been further uproar after the project was moved to the Municipality of the County of Kings.