Reading Time: 4 minutes Organized, well-funded groups condemning farming practices on social media are winning the consumer trust battle
Category: Newfoundland
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
Energy production in Canada declining, says StatsCan
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta produced 18.3 million cubic metres of crude oil and equivalent products in October, down 4.9 per cent, as a result of reduced oil sands activity
Gigging it in the free world
Reading Time: 3 minutes The gig economy is gaining traction, for better or worse. Who needs benefits or job security when you can work on a high wire?
Tear down Canada’s interprovincial trade walls
Reading Time: 3 minutes The annual national price tag for maintaining internal barriers may top $130 billion
How to save Newfoundlanders from Muskrat Falls disaster
Reading Time: 3 minutes The hydroelectric project mess in Newfoundland and Labrador requires some hard choices. But taxpayers deserve and need some relief
Joey Smallwood’s campaign to transform Newfoundland
Reading Time: 3 minutes Force-feeding economic modernization is a tricky business, even for a Father of Confederation
Universal health care in Canada? Not really
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you move from B.C. to Newfoundland, for example, you’re likely to be denied coverage