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Are sugar taxes really about your health?

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Or just another revenue stream for cash-strapped governments?

12-pack of Coke or Pepsi will be slapped with nearly a dollar in new taxes

While no single solution will resolve the province’s fiscal crisis, an LBO would ensure that elected officials are informed in their deliberations

Canada’s Labrador Trough region, which straddles the border between the provinces of Québec and Newfoundland and Labrador.

The latest provincial budget continues a risky strategy: spending far beyond the government’s means, as the debt continues to pile up

The financial problem facing the government is so large that it will need to borrow enormous amounts over the next five years, no matter what

Budget avoids taking the necessary action to reduce and reform spending, relying on increasing taxes instead