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Atlantic Canada's Political Economy

What New Brunswick Can Learn from Europe’s Energy Moment
What a view from the Port of Antwerp reveals about urgency, pragmatism, and the opportunity across the Atlantic
 • Michelle Robichaud
Buying Time or Buying Change?
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces are increasing public debt to pay for public services on the promise of future earnings. Here's…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Why Deficits Carry More Risk in Atlantic Canada
With large provincial deficits on the books from B.C to Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada’s smaller, aging economies, are being tested faster – and with…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
A Region That Can’t Get Its (Many) Acts Together
Fragmented rules, political resets, and slow permitting have created a region where capital comes to look but rarely stays to build
 • Gina Miller
No People, No Money
New Brunswick’s soft economy made it reliant on federal transfers. Now, slower population gains threaten to reduce those transfers and widen a deficit…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
The Investability Hump
The Atlantic Economic Panel has heard Atlantic Canada has talent and ambition, but inconsistent regulation, outdated perceptions, and weak social…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Nature Is the New Asset Class and Atlantic Canada Is Leaving Billions on the Table
New Brunswick's Cassidy Lake is the warning and Nova Scotia's EverWind is the proof that institutional capital will invest in natural assets – or leave…
 • Gina Miller
Found in translation: Atlantic Canada's Missing Finance Infrastructure
The tides, the fisheries, the wind: Atlantic Canada's environmental assets are real. The market infrastructure to monetise them is not.
 • Gina Miller
New Brunswick's Billion-Dollar Bet
Three major projects in Saint John, Belledune and the Upper St. John River Valley form the Holt government's opening hand to beat back its…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
The Missing One Per Cent
The Atlantic Economic Panel asks: What would it take for Atlantic Canada to lift long‑term growth by a single percentage point – and why is it so darn…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Susan Holt Puts Her Cards on the Table
In her second State of the Province address, the New Brunswick premier warned that social progress now depends on blunt economic choices – and…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Susan Holt is Racing the Clock
As she heads into tonight's State of the Province address, geopolitical ruptures and the reordering of Canada's relationships is colliding with New…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
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