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Newfoundland and Labrador should lower taxes to help attract health-care workers

The province has some of the highest personal income tax rates in North America.


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Newfoundland and Labrador experiencing child-care crisis despite government claims

Massive government spending has inflated demand but supply has not kept up.


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Budget season in Atlantic Canada—one bright spot in sea of red ink

The Nova Scotia government projects net debt will increase by 23 per cent over three years.


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Newfoundland and Labrador’s population is growing fast and homebuilding isn’t keeping up
Not since the 1950s and 1960s has the province consistently grown by around 10,000 people annually.

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Newfoundland and Labrador must improve policies to tap oil and gas potential

Investment in the province’s oil and gas sector plummeted from $4.9 billion in 2014 to $1.2 billion in 2023.


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Newfoundland and Labrador government squanders another opportunity to reduce crushing debt

On a per-person basis, government spending will increase to $19,238, the highest of any province in Canada.


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Ottawa’s new ‘energy efficiency’ rules will increase home costs in Newfoundland and Labrador

The financial burden will likely fall disproportionately on younger lower-income residents looking to enter the housing market.


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Newfoundland and Labrador government unlikely to reduce tax rates despite taxpayer wishes

According to polling results, the majority of Atlantic Canadians believe the top income tax rate shouldn’t be over 50 per cent.


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Newfoundland and Labrador must restrain spending to right fiscal ship

The province's net debt is $31,749 per person, by far the highest level of any province in Canada.