This Guide (prepared by Dalhousie Legal Aid Service) is for people in Nova Scotia who need income assistance. The provincial government provides income assistance and there are laws that determine your rights to assistance.

Immigrant Women's Roundtable Report

July 28, 2006

On February 22nd, 2006, the Nova Scotia Office of Immigration, the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women, the Atlantic Metropolis Centre of Excellence, and the YMCA Centre for Immigrant Programs, brought 62 immigrant women together from the Halifax Regional Municipality area to discuss their views and experiences settling and living in Nova Scotia.

Many helpful suggestions were made during the round table. A report summarizing the proceedings of the roundtable is now available.

And They Lived Happily Ever After ...

rights and responsibilities of common law partners

Et ils vécurent

February 11, 2004

heureux jusqu'à la fin des temps...
droits et obligations des conjoints de fait

Immigrant Women and a Framework for Immigration to Nova Scotia

October 15, 2004

A Brief prepared jointly by the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women and the Gender/Immigrant Women Research Domain, Atlantic Metropolis Atlantique in response to A Framework for Immigration: A Discussion Paper, Province of Nova Scotia, 2004.

A Presentation to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration

February, 2003