newfoundland

10:05AM
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Furey budget kicks ‘spending’ can down the road

The reduced deficit relies largely on oil and gas royalties and transfers from Ottawa.


2:30AM
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Furey government must reduce compensation for government-sector workers

Government salaries and benefits comprise approximately 42 per cent of the province's spending.


12:08PM
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Charitable giving on the wane in Newfoundland and Labrador

Approximately 72,000 Newfoundlanders and Labradorians made charitable contributions, down from 85,600 in 2008.


3:33PM
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Newfoundland and Labrador faces fiscal crisis, other provinces should take note

Alberta’s per-person government debt has eclipsed $10,000 this year.


9:39AM
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New Brunswick's debt load will climb to an estimated 115 per cent of GDP over the next 25 years.


3:00AM
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Adding more renewable electricity generation will not help Atlantic Canadians already burdened with high energy prices.

6:00AM
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In the recent New Brunswick election, an unremarkable engineering activity apparently took front and centre: hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, popularly known as fracking.


2:00AM
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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.