The province is expected to run a $192 million deficit in 2017-18.
atlantic canada
August 24, 2016
2:11PM
Adding more expensive renewables will not help Atlantic Canadians already burdened with high energy prices and expenditures.
August 23, 2016
10:20AM
In Atlantic Canada, a stunning 20.6 per cent of households were in energy poverty as of 2013.
July 25, 2016
6:00AM
In the case of the Atlantic provinces, all four have unemployment well above the 6.8 per cent national average, with Newfoundland's at 12 per cent and P.E.I.'s at 11 per cent.
March 6, 2014
2:00AM
There is no question that a great education is essential to success in the 21st century. Completing high school, for example, markedly reduces the chances of unemployment or the probability of remaining trapped in low-income jobs.
The importance of education to a childs future success explains the increasing interest on the part of parents, and therefore politicians, in ensuring not only a functioning but thriving education system. Supporting parents in choosing their childrens education and fostering competition between schools is vital to such efforts.
January 8, 2014
2:00AM
Over fifty years, observers have become inured to troubling reports of Atlantic Canada's economic difficulties.
Even the most jaundiced observer would recognize, however, that data for the last two years describes something different. The regional economy is not experiencing continued slow decline: it is starting to implode.