Reading Time: 3 minutes 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
Tag: Newfoundland politics
Improve teacher working conditions by dumping bad ideas
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
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
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
Newfoundland & Labrador takes wrong approach for its fiscal troubles
Reading Time: 3 minutes Budget avoids taking the necessary action to reduce and reform spending, relying on increasing taxes instead
Fiscal storm brewing in Newfoundland and Labrador
Reading Time: 4 minutes The seriousness of Newfoundland and Labrador’s fiscal problems demand bold and decisive action