Reading Time: 4 minutes The bridge is a prime example of a private-public partnership gone right. Shifting the burden to taxpayers and non-users is simply unfair
Category: PEI
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
If P.E.I. goes Green, Trudeau could be singing the blues
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadians are gradually accepting Green politicians as worthy of support. That will drain yet more support from the federal Liberals
Time to rethink the federal transfers system
Reading Time: 4 minutes Atlantic Canada enjoys a level of public spending that far outreaches that of the provinces that contribute most to equalization payments
School choice a good first step to quality education in Atlantic Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Adopting the Alberta charter school model would give parents and children more choice and allow them to enjoy the benefits of competition
Atlantic Canada should abandon government liquor monopolies
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time to focus on preserving public safety while permitting a market system to thrive through the entire supply chain, from producer to consumer
Trudeau’s small business tax grab will hit Atlantic Canada hard
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa’s plan is confiscatory and destructive for a region where everyone already pays far too much in tax
Gasoline price-fixing harms Atlantic Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Controls were intended to ease consumer anger over rare but large price fluctuations. But government isn’t meant to be an anger management therapist
A Canadian delicacy claws its way back into the market
Reading Time: 3 minutes Lobster is so popular these days, McDonald’s ditched its McLobster due to higher prices. Still, things are looking up for the ‘chicken of the sea’