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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?

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.

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?

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.

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

A good news budget?

Two things worth knowing that you might not have heard about Thursday’s budget

Millions spent on the provincial Poverty Reduction Strategy compared to percentage indicators of poverty in NL
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%.

Art knows no borders

Why are there limitations on whose art can be procured?

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.