Reading Time: 3 minutes Even though there’s a wealth of evidence supporting traditional teaching techniques, officials too often push an ideological agenda to teaching
Category: Newfoundland
The ups and downs of boom-bust oil
Reading Time: 3 minutes Breaking up monopolies and trusts deemed to be manipulating markets led to some unintended consequences, including price volatility
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
Canada’s media: you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fake news was around long before Donald Trump made it a thing – and it hit Canada’s energy sector hard
What the world really thinks about Canada’s energy industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes We get high marks for industry transparency, balanced development, environmental sustainability and consultation
Living in the post-truth world, energy style
Reading Time: 4 minutes Post-truth nonsense about fossil fuels paints a dangerous, damaging and distorted picture of Canada’s energy use and production
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
Canadians have a duty to truly understand energy issues
Reading Time: 3 minutes Manipulated by politicians and environmental activists, Canadians are often passive rather than pro-active participants in energy policy initiatives
It’s time to rally behind Canada’s oil and gas sector
Reading Time: 3 minutes When a sector that employs thousands and keeps our country prosperous suffers, you don’t shrug your shoulders and do nothing