Reading Time: 3 minutes New deal between the provinces encourages protectionism and allows exemptions to free trade, most notably when it comes to alcohol
Author: Jackson Doughart
Jackson Doughart is a writer, journalist and political scientist, currently working as a opinion page editor of the Telegraph-Journal, the paper of record in New Brunswick. My experience includes all stages of preparing publications, communications, public speaking, research, translating, website development, teaching, video production, interviews, and supervising.
Looking for affordable housing? Try Atlantic provinces
Reading Time: 3 minutes In an age of bloated house prices in many urban centres, Atlantic Canada’s situation is enviable
Atlantic Canada doesn’t know what real austerity feels like
Reading Time: 3 minutes Spending has risen steadily in the last generation, and anti-austerity activists clearly need to regain their equilibrium
Atlantic Canada’s oversized public sector
Reading Time: 3 minutes Money can be saved by paring the size of the public sector, finding efficiencies, privatizing some services and controlling wages
P.E.I. premier speaks truth on internal trade in Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes The federal government has three legal avenues to ensure trade liberalization between provinces. It should take them
Democratic reform requires democratic consent
Reading Time: 3 minutes When it comes to options like proportional representation, e-voting and lowering the age of voters, we all deserve a voice
At least Atlantic Canada leads in something
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unfortunately, it’s sales taxes
Your children will pay the price for the Trudeau government budget
Reading Time: 3 minutes Borrowing money to fund today’s entitlement programs just kicks the can of repayment down the line
How to save journalism in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes A significant impediment to any new news media model is the taxpayer subsidized CBC which can provide content that only appears to be free
Supply management alive and well under TPP
Reading Time: 3 minutes Conservatives effectively closed the door on any meaningful revisions to supply management