Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada’s healthy oceans are worth billions more than what can simply be extracted from them.
Oceans and coastal ecosystems generated at minimum $7.1 billion in benefits in 2023, new figures from Statistics Canada suggest.
Continue reading Canada’s oceans provide billions in value beyond fish
By Isaac Phan Nay, The Tyee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Jasmine Ramze Rezaee wants you to think twice when Ottawa says we have a productivity problem.
Prime Minister Mark Carney links weak productivity to rising costs.
“Our long-standing weak productivity is making life less affordable for Canadians,” Carney said in a speech in May. “It’s beginning to strain our government finances and starting to put at risk the social programs on which Canadians rely.”
Continue reading Rethinking Canada’s ‘Productivity Problem’
By Mick Sweetman, CHLY 101.7 FM Nanaimo, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
Violent crime in several Vancouver Island communities is on the rise according to new numbers from Statistics Canada.
Warren Silver, an analyst with Statistics Canada says that’s part of a broader trend across Canada where violent crime peaked in the mid to late 1990s before falling until recent years.
“Violent crime is something that we’re really tracking right now, because we’ve seen increases in quite a lot of places,” he said.
Continue reading Breaking down crime statistics on Vancouver Island
By Natasha Bulowski, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Grocery chain CEOs fielded tough questions from MPs at a parliamentary committee meeting attempting to get to the root of why Canadians are facing such high food prices.
Across the food and beverage industry, net income has more than doubled, and this is reflected in the balance sheets of all three companies under scrutiny at the committee, said Liberal MP Ryan Turnbull.
Continue reading Parliamentary committee questions grocery chain CEOs over high food prices while studying food price inflation
