New Brunswick’s Minister of Finance says the latest quarterly budget update is evidence of “strong fiscal management” under the Higgs government. But one anti-poverty activist says gains cited by the province come at a steep price for people struggling with poverty, who survive on the...
The summer of 2023 was the summer of the “housing crisis,” and it is increasingly clear the issue will dominate the next federal election, even if housing is constitutionally a provincial issue. It may well dominate the next New Brunswick provincial election also. In some parts of...
Editor’s note: This commentary was first published by the Toronto Star on July 31, 2023. One in five Canadians had no private or public coverage for their prescriptions in 2021, according to Statistics Canada. A national drug plan would change that. An anonymous drug manufacturer...
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