Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa’s plan is confiscatory and destructive for a region where everyone already pays far too much in tax
Category: New Brunswick
Gasoline price-fixing harms Atlantic Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Controls were intended to ease consumer anger over rare but large price fluctuations. But government isn’t meant to be an anger management therapist
A Canadian delicacy claws its way back into the market
Reading Time: 3 minutes Lobster is so popular these days, McDonald’s ditched its McLobster due to higher prices. Still, things are looking up for the ‘chicken of the sea’
Minimum wage prices low-skilled workers out of a job
Reading Time: 3 minutes Governments should abolish the fruitless minimum wage if they want to do right by young and low-income persons
Mapping the route to more effective health care
Reading Time: 3 minutes To improve value and spur innovation, we need to change the way we pay for health care by encouraging those providers who experiment and innovate
Atlantic Canada’s golden opportunity for U.S. immigration
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tell them Atlantic Canada is building, and that they will be key players in the growth of Canada’s most beautiful region as it prepares for the 21st century
N.B. on its way to building a more inclusive democracy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Electoral reform recommendations seek to build a bigger democratic tent and populate it with under-represented New Brunswickers
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