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Nova Scotia government unwieldy, costly: study

by Alex Whalen | Oct 2, 2020 | FREE membership, Nova Scotia, Politics/Law | 0

ALEX WHALEN and STEVEN GLOBERMAN: With escalating spending and a shrinking private sector due to the pandemic, Nova Scotia’s large government is a growing concern

Fracking can lift the Maritimes out of economic doldrums

by Joseph Quesnel | Sep 18, 2020 | Business, FREE membership, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Politics/Law, Quebec | 0

JOSEPH QUESNEL: Maritime provinces and Quebec should be developing their resources now as natural gas prices recover

COVID crisis opportunity for trade reform in Atlantic Canada

by Alex Whalen | Sep 2, 2020 | Business, FREE membership, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, PEI, Politics/Law | 0

ALEX WHALEN and BEN EISEN: Eliminating trade barriers can help accelerate the economic recovery

Health-care roadblocks stymie patients

by David Zitner | Aug 27, 2020 | FREE membership, Health, Nova Scotia, Politics/Law | 0

DAVID ZITNER: The N.S. Health Authority lets an inefficient telephone system act as an important barrier to timely care

Nova Scotia government faces debt tidal wave

by Jake Fuss | Jun 12, 2020 | Business, FREE membership, Nova Scotia, Politics/Law | 0

JAKE FUSS and ALEX WHALEN: Rising government debt can dampen economic growth and divert billions of dollars away from important public priorities (FREE membership content)

The amazing wild horses of Sable Island

by Geoff Carpentier | Feb 9, 2020 | Environment, Nova Scotia, PREMIUM membership | 0

GEOFF CARPENTIER: As we approached the island, our anticipation rose and ebbed as we watched the weather. We weren’t sure if, after travelling so far, we could even land (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)

Consumer trust in agriculture is waning

by Sylvain Charlebois | Feb 7, 2020 | Alberta, BC, Business, Environment, FREE membership, Lifestyle, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northern Canada, Nova Scotia, Ontario, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan | 0

SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: Organized, well-funded groups condemning farming practices on social media are winning the consumer trust battle (FREE membership content)

Municipalities must take the lead in getting the lead out

by Paz Gomez | Feb 2, 2020 | Environment, FREE membership, Health, Manitoba, Municipal, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northern Canada, Nova Scotia, Ontario, PEI, Politics/Law, Quebec, Saskatchewan | 0

PAZ GOMES: The astonishing levels of lead in Canada’s drinking water requires action. That means taking simple measures at the local level, aided by federal incentives (FREE membership content)

Taxpayers are often the losers in the incentive game

by Doug Firby | Dec 16, 2019 | Alberta, Business, Nova Scotia, PREMIUM membership | 0

DOUG FIRBY: When one government offers incentives and another one doesn’t, then the competition to attract new businesses is no longer a level playing field (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $21)

Embracing the unfamiliar down home

by Alec Bruce | Oct 9, 2019 | Lifestyle, Nova Scotia, PREMIUM membership | 0

ALEC BRUCE: The East Coast isn’t quaint, slow, lazy or anything else others in the rest of Canada might assume. But it does tend to defy expectations (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $21)

A political matchup made in heaven

by Alec Bruce | Oct 2, 2019 | New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Politics/Law, PREMIUM membership | 0

ALEC BRUCE: What if voters had to choose between candidates with proven track records, like McKenna and Stanfield, rather than Trudeau and Scheer? (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $21)

Take this job and … uh, love it?

by Alec Bruce | Jul 31, 2019 | Business, Careers/HR, Nova Scotia, Politics/Law, PREMIUM membership | 0

ALEC BRUCE: A truly-bad-job phenomenon is gathering on the horizon, particularly for young people. What do we do about it? (PREMIUM membership content)