Reading Time: 3 minutes Governments should abolish the fruitless minimum wage if they want to do right by young and low-income persons
Category: PEI
Atlantic Canada’s golden opportunity for U.S. immigration
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tell them Atlantic Canada is building, and that they will be key players in the growth of Canada’s most beautiful region as it prepares for the 21st century
Budget puts P.E.I. on good fiscal path but …
Reading Time: 3 minutes … the government should take this opportunity to firm up its balance sheet, pay down some debt and give relief to Islanders who need it
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
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
Almost 40% of Atlantic Canada households live in energy poverty
Reading Time: 3 minutes Atlantic Canada premiers should focus on opportunities to make energy more affordable for their citizens, rather than making it more expensive
Atlantic Canada could lose Supreme Court seat
Reading Time: 3 minutes New selection process would upend constitutional convention and an important principle of federalism: regional voices matter
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