Enabling dependency
How can we explain the continued government inaction in the face of the worst recession since the cod moratorium?
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Estimating the damage
What is actually being cut in this budget?
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Is there a democratic alternative to austerity?
Other places have experimented with austerity, so we don’t have to. Here’s how Newfoundland and Labrador can avoid known mistakes and put itself on a path to a brighter, more equitable, future.
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Why TPP rhymes with refugee
What could a major new trade deal and the way the Harper Conservatives have chosen to handle the refugee crisis possibly have in common?
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On a rock in a hard place: MUN and the Davis Budget
Properly funding and managing Memorial University are fundamental public policy issues and far too important to be left to senior administration or the provincial government.
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Words matter
Does Paul Davis represent a change for the Tories? A comparison of the language used by the provincial government with that of Davis during his leadership campaign provides a revealing answer
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A good news budget?
Two things worth knowing that you might not have heard about Thursday’s budget
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Spending our way to more poverty
In 2006, Danny Williams declared poverty reduction a strategic priority for the province. Since then childhood poverty has risen 70%.
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Art knows no borders
Why are there limitations on whose art can be procured?
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Promoting gendered inequality
Five years ago, the Flaherty-Harper government introduced income splitting for pensions. Designed to benefit only higher income earners, in 2009, 84% of the people who benefited were men.
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Anatomy of a boom (Part 2)
If the boom has not led to a marked increase in inequality, the same cannot be said for government policies. They markedly increased our levels of inequality.
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Anatomy of a boom (Part 1)
Between 2005 and 2009 assessed incomes in Newfoundland and Labrador increased by 49%. The boom we are experiencing is without precedent in Canadian history, but it is also exceptional for a quite different reason.
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How is our 1% different?
Ownership of stocks, bonds, real estate and professional incomes set the 1% apart from the rest of us.
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Economic Action Plan pt. 4
Finally, we can answer the question: What did they actually do?
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Economic Action Plan pt. 3
Lower taxes, ah yes, but for whom?
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Economic Action Plan pt. 2
All you need to know about the largest government program that they chose not to tell you about
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Economic Action Plan, pt. 1
What does the feel-good ad about taxes tell us?
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Have-no-more
An inconvenient truth we need to discuss
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Refugees
What is Jason Kenney up to?
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The wage gap
On this 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, Robert Sweeny analyzes how ‘we are dealing with deeply rooted and probably largely non-economic forms of resistance to gender equity’
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