Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian health care violates human rights when governments cause limited or delayed access to primary and specialist care
Category: Nova Scotia
Atlantic Canada doesn’t know what real austerity feels like
Reading Time: 3 minutes Spending has risen steadily in the last generation, and anti-austerity activists clearly need to regain their equilibrium
2016 a year of dramatic change in education
Reading Time: 3 minutes DI MUCCIO: The implications of some of the biggest stories in public education in 2016
Atlantic Canada’s oversized public sector
Reading Time: 3 minutes Money can be saved by paring the size of the public sector, finding efficiencies, privatizing some services and controlling wages
Indigenous communities deserve economic choice
Reading Time: 3 minutes Allowing free market ownership of urban reserves can give First Nations the economic clout to move ahead, despite having to pay taxes
Almost 40% of Atlantic Canada households live in energy poverty
Reading Time: 3 minutes Atlantic Canada premiers should focus on opportunities to make energy more affordable for their citizens, rather than making it more expensive
Atlantic Canada could lose Supreme Court seat
Reading Time: 3 minutes New selection process would upend constitutional convention and an important principle of federalism: regional voices matter
Health-care spending increases point to unsustainable future
Reading Time: 3 minutes Provincial governments need to start re-examining how their health-care dollars are spent or implementing meaningful health-care reform now
Atlantic provinces should join western free-trade deal
Reading Time: 3 minutes An east-west trade confederation would harmonize a variety of standards, saving time and money and removing roadblocks to economic growth
Don’t blame seniors for Atlantic Canada’s economic difficulties
Reading Time: 4 minutes Instead, it has too few young workers due to a slow economy, caused largetly by government policies