Reading Time: 3 minutes Free trade continues to be valued, as it was at Confederation, both for its economic benefits and its potential to promote Canadian unity
Category: New Brunswick
Beer-barrel economics: what goes down stimulates the economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes A cut in beer prices in New Brunswick led to an increase in beer sales to Nova Scotia and Quebec residents
Political change? Nowhere in the Canadian breezes
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you hold power now, chances are you will continue to do so
Memorization, practise and critical thinking go hand-in-hand
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s unreasonable to assume that students can practise critical thinking without first acquiring substantial background knowledge
Almost 40% of Atlantic Canada households live in energy poverty
Reading Time: 3 minutes Atlantic Canada premiers should focus on opportunities to make energy more affordable for their citizens, rather than making it more expensive
New Brunswick HST increase outweighs spending cuts five to one
Reading Time: 4 minutes Raising taxes to pay for more spending isn’t working; new jobs aren’t being created and subsidies to add workers can’t be sustained
Atlantic Canada could lose Supreme Court seat
Reading Time: 3 minutes New selection process would upend constitutional convention and an important principle of federalism: regional voices matter
Finding inspiration in Britain’s economic resourcefulness
Reading Time: 3 minutes Policy-makers in New Brunswick should emulate Britain’s economic and budget policies; instead, they raise taxes and discourage growth
Tax hike won’t solve New Brunswick’s spending problem
Reading Time: 3 minutes The government raised taxes simply to be able to spend more
New Brunswick out to prove Einstein was right
Reading Time: 3 minutes INSANITY: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result