Eye on New Brunswick Archives

The forgotten legacy Claudette Bradshaw left to New Brunswickers

by Luc Theriault | Mar 29, 2022 | Eye on New Brunswick, FREE content, Life, Politics/Law | 0

LUC THERIAULT: The Bradshaw Report was one of the very rare attempts at looking at the working conditions and benefits levels in the non-profit sector (free)

Responding to the pandemic doesn’t have to mean a mountain of debt

by Jay Goldberg | Jan 23, 2022 | Eye on New Brunswick, Eye on Ontario, FREE content, Politics/Law | 0

JAY GOLDBERG: The contrast between how New Brunswick and Ontario handled the pandemic is stark. New Brunswick is in the black, Ontario is in the red (FREE)

Atlantic Canada missing out on potential oil and gas boom

by Ven Venkatachalam | Nov 17, 2021 | Business, Eye on New Brunswick, Eye on Newfoundland, Eye on Nova Scotia, Eye on PEI, FREE content, Politics/Law | 0

VEN VENKATACHALAM and LENNIE KAPLAN: Energy sector created more than 20,000 jobs and nearly $7 billion in GDP in 2017 alone (FREE)

New Brunswick charts a bold new economic path

by Constantine Passaris | Oct 12, 2021 | Business, Education, Eye on New Brunswick, FREE content, Technology | 0

CONSTANTINE PASSARIS: The launch of the McKenna Institute at the University of New Brunswick is confirmation that the age of internetization has arrived in the province (FREE)

New Brunswick’s Acadia region a hidden gem

by Doug Firby | Sep 28, 2021 | ConnecTour, Eye on New Brunswick, FREE content, Get outside, Things to do in Canada, Travel | 0

This is part 24 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

CYCLING CANADA: A naturally beautiful region with equally vibrant people, Acadia is a Canadian treasure (FREE)

CUPE wants its weight in gold – paid for by the taxpayer

by Renaud Brossard | Sep 16, 2021 | Eye on New Brunswick, FREE content, Politics/Law | 0

RENAUD BROSSARD: New Brunswick union wants a 20%(!) raise over the next four years (FREE)

Government spending in New Brunswick is about to hit a wall

by Renaud Brossard | Jul 16, 2021 | Business, Entrepreneurs, Eye on New Brunswick, FREE content, Politics/Law, Small business | 0

RENAUD BROSSARD: A $600 million gap exists between what the province currently spends and what it can afford to spend without increasing its debt load (FREE)

Atlantic Canada won’t prosper until it kicks the equalization habit

by David MacKinnon | May 5, 2021 | Eye on New Brunswick, Eye on Newfoundland, Eye on Nova Scotia, Eye on PEI, FREE content, Politics/Law | 0

DAVID MACKINNON: Subsidies to Atlantic Canada represent corrosive political practices that damage the reputation of the region and the national fabric (FREE)

Is Canada destined to fall into Greenland’s welfare trap?

by Peter Holle | Apr 29, 2021 | Eye on New Brunswick, Eye on Nova Scotia, Eye on PEI, Eye on Quebec, FREE content, Politics/Law | 0

PETER HOLLE: If Canada continues to subsidize areas that aren’t economically viable, the standard of living in our country will continue to erode (FREE)

High taxes, red tape keeping entrepreneurs out of New Brunswick

by Renaud Brossard | Apr 16, 2021 | Business, Entrepreneurs, Eye on New Brunswick, FREE content, Small business | 0

RENAUD BROSSARD: Getting more people to start up businesses doesn’t require an expensive and complex government plan. Government just needs to get out of the way (FREE)

Federal carbon tax hike will hammer New Brunswick economy

by Alex Whalen | Apr 14, 2021 | Business, Environment, Eye on New Brunswick, FREE content, Politics/Law, Your Money | 0

ALEX WHALEN and ELMIRA ALIAKBARI: New Brunswickers should understand the real-life effects of this tax, as the job loss and economic contraction will be substantial (FREE)