The government has increased per-person spending by more than 10 per cent between 2018/19 and 2020/21.
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April 27, 2022
9:48AM
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April 26, 2022
11:30AM
Since 1990, the province's net debt-to-GDP ratio has grown from 13 per cent to 43 per cent.
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April 22, 2022
9:45AM
When tax rates increase, people often change their economic behaviour in ways that shrink the targeted tax base.
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April 22, 2022
4:30AM
Some historical perspective on Earth Day activism suggests cooler heads should prevail in climate change discussions.
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April 19, 2022
3:30AM
The region's average per-person GDP is 32.7 per cent larger than Ontario's.
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April 18, 2022
3:30AM
The carbon tax will cost Canadians an estimated 184,000 jobs.
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April 13, 2022
9:47AM
Ramping up interest rates at this juncture places more of the burden of fighting inflation on consumers.
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April 11, 2022
3:03PM
In the last year of reliable data before the pandemic, government spending in Nova Scotia represented 60.2 per cent of the economy.
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April 7, 2022
4:01PM
The projected federal deficit for 2022/23 could have been reduced by more than 42 per cent had the government stuck to last spring's spending plan.
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April 6, 2022
9:55AM
National politicians aren’t as well placed to make local decisions as local politicians.
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