Reading Time: 3 minutes Unfortunately, it’s sales taxes
Category: New Brunswick
Bad news keeps piling up for New Brunswick
Reading Time: 4 minutes From punitive tax strategies to moribund job creation to a weak education system, this provincial government seems intent on failure
Health-care spending increases point to unsustainable future
Reading Time: 3 minutes Provincial governments need to start re-examining how their health-care dollars are spent or implementing meaningful health-care reform now
Atlantic provinces should join western free-trade deal
Reading Time: 3 minutes An east-west trade confederation would harmonize a variety of standards, saving time and money and removing roadblocks to economic growth
Don’t blame seniors for Atlantic Canada’s economic difficulties
Reading Time: 4 minutes Instead, it has too few young workers due to a slow economy, caused largetly by government policies
Why New Brunswick still won’t allow cross-border booze buying
Reading Time: 3 minutes Even in the face of a clear court ruling, the province seems intent on standing in the way of free trade
Atlantic Canada hurt by Liberal reversal of their own EI policies
Reading Time: 4 minutes By making benefits too easy to access, a cycle of unemployment is created that discourages the pursuit of education
New Brunswick sinking further into debt
Reading Time: 4 minutes New Brunswick needs a long-term strategy for growth and a reform of its spending model if is it to reverse course
Atlantic Canada facing an economic crisis
Reading Time: 4 minutes The level of support from other regions of the country has created a dangerous sense of entitlement
Fiscal austerity recipe for economic decimation
Reading Time: 3 minutes While provincial budgets face overwhelming challenges in 2015, austerity measures must be implemented with caution