Reading Time: 4 minutes 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
Category: Nova Scotia
Consumer trust in agriculture is waning
Reading Time: 4 minutes Organized, well-funded groups condemning farming practices on social media are winning the consumer trust battle
Municipalities must take the lead in getting the lead out
Reading Time: 5 minutes 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
Rethink restrictions on private health insurance
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian patients are entitled to make informed choices about their health care. Private health insurance carries many benefits to the broader system
Trudeau tax relief plan will do little for economic growth
Reading Time: 3 minutes Because the government continues to borrow more money, the proposed tax cuts are not cuts at all but punts to future taxpayers
Taxpayers are often the losers in the incentive game
Reading Time: 4 minutes When one government offers incentives and another one doesn’t, then the competition to attract new businesses is no longer a level playing field
A political matchup made in heaven
Reading Time: 3 minutes What if voters had to choose between candidates with proven track records, like McKenna and Stanfield, rather than Trudeau and Scheer?
Take this job and … uh, love it?
Reading Time: 3 minutes A truly-bad-job phenomenon is gathering on the horizon, particularly for young people. What do we do about it?
One patient, one record: the folly of Nova Scotia’s latest health plan
Reading Time: 3 minutes The plan seems to depend on methods developed in part in other countries that rank poorly for health services delivery
Gigging it in the free world
Reading Time: 3 minutes The gig economy is gaining traction, for better or worse. Who needs benefits or job security when you can work on a high wire?