Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s time to reduce funding to police and reallocate those dollars to more proactive ways to reduce crime
Category: New Brunswick
Ottawa’s carbon tax hike out of step with global reality
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian taxpayers need financial relief during the COVID-19 crisis. Carbon taxes are an obvious place to start
Municipalities, utilities on the front lines of extreme weather
Reading Time: 4 minutes Smart Energy Communities are not only more resilient, they also create new opportunities for local economic development, lower energy costs and a cleaner environment
Consumer trust in agriculture is waning
Reading Time: 4 minutes Organized, well-funded groups condemning farming practices on social media are winning the consumer trust battle
Municipalities must take the lead in getting the lead out
Reading Time: 5 minutes The astonishing levels of lead in Canada’s drinking water requires action. That means taking simple measures at the local level, aided by federal incentives
Rethink restrictions on private health insurance
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian patients are entitled to make informed choices about their health care. Private health insurance carries many benefits to the broader system
Trudeau tax relief plan will do little for economic growth
Reading Time: 3 minutes Because the government continues to borrow more money, the proposed tax cuts are not cuts at all but punts to future taxpayers
McCain’s Twitter rant bizarre, ill-advised
Reading Time: 3 minutes By using a corporate Twitter handle as a personal social media soapbox, the Maple Leaf Foods CEO tied his company to his beliefs about Trump
Wexit would solve the country’s malaise
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s time to break apart this dysfunctional nation so the various parts can repair their generations-long problems
Republic of Ireland offers valuable social, economic lessons
Reading Time: 3 minutes Looking for – and finding – solutions to hot-button issues from education to economic vibrancy to population growth