“The gender pay gap is not inevitable. It is the result of policy choices, labour market structures, and how society values different kinds of work."

A jury reached a verdict in the L.A. trial focused on Meta and YouTube, a case that experts have characterized as social media's "Big Tobacco" moment.

Parents and advocates are sounding the alarm over the harm the provincial government’s proposed budget cuts will cause some of Nova Scotia’s most vulnerable.

This article explores agenda-setting dynamics in the field of perinatal health care in England. Specifically, it analyses the 2024 Birth Trauma Inquiry, which launched after a high-profile campaign...

Abstract. This article presents a systematic review of how the relationship between crisis and policy change is conceptualized, operationalized, and analyz

This study uses a population-level surveillance program to investigate maternal and perinatal outcomes associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy by vaccination status prior to and during pregn...

The Nova Scotia government says the province needs more money from the federal government to reach their 2021 target of creating 9,500 new affordable childcare spaces.

The price of baby formula in Canada has risen roughly 84 per cent since 2017, according to Statistics Canada, driving some parents to turn to strangers on social media for help. One researcher says fo...

“The government should be strengthening this kind of community support, not taking it away,” Iain Rankin said.

Nova Scotia Liberals are urging the Houston government to save an infant feeding clinic in the Halifax Regional Municipality. The Halifax Primary Care Clinic announced that its publicly funded program...

The idea that ‘prevention is better than cure’ is often treated as self-evident in health policymaking: who would not want to shift resources from mit…

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

Exclusive: Legal actions rise after death or injury of hundreds of babies and women in recent years

This article examines the relationship between policy experiments, a form of policy innovation, and policy change. Despite a great deal of scholarship on experiments, little is known about how experim...

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

This article discusses the concept of success in relation to policy experimentation, a type of policy innovation. Despite a growing literature on policy experiments, few studies define or explore what...

The following email from Karine Morin was received by the CHA on Thursday, May 8, 2025: I am writing to inform you that after over a year of discussions with a potential institutional host for Congres...