Nova Scotia and Halifax

Halifax: The challenges facing Nova Scotia outlined by the Ivany report are well known: a weak economy, little population growth, a shrinking workforce and an aging demographic profile, according to The Chronicle Herald. Given its relative importance, Halifax has a key role to play in arresting and reversing the province economic and social decline. Home to more than four in 10 Nova Scotians and generating more than half the province overall GDP — and a fifth of Atlantic Canada — Halifax clearly fills that role. A lack of job opportunities, especially in rural and smaller urban parts of the province, has long been leading young people to leave home, many headed to provinces west of here. In recent years, however, the city employment capacity has been stagnant while the number of young people leaving Nova Scotia has increased, Fred Morley, executive vice-president and chief economist of the Greater Halifax Partnership, recently told our editorial board. Fortunately, some of these migrants have always found jobs in Halifax. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.