Why others are rich — and we are not
Don Cayo writes in March of 1999, "When Governor Angus King started to talk about the sad fate of a little business in near home in Maine, I figured he was trying to build empathy with his audience of Maritimers. Certainly all of us have seen too many businesses close. So his point, I thought, was that we’d know how he felt. And that we’d know that he knows how we feel when we see failures on our side of the border."
Separatism, Nova Scotia style
Don Cayo writes about "merger mania" as municipal amalgamation hit full stride in Nova Scotia.
Parents should control schools, not just picket and protest
Don Cayo on developments throughout Atlantic canada between dissatisfied parents and local school boards.
On rural failures and rural futures
Don Cayo examines the fate of small towns in Atlantic Canada.
Aging affects regions, too
Everyone knows that Canada faces the prospect of a dramatically aging population as the Baby Boomers, that huge demographic bulge, edge towards retirement. But Don Cayo points out, an AIMS study underlines is how much more dramatic that will be in a region with stagnant or negative growth.
Anyone but the old premiers
Don Cayo on the political personalities leading the provincial parties.
Why are so many schools so ‘sick’?
Don Cayo on "sick building syndrome" and why its affecting schools in Atlantic Canada.
Wanted: More good ideas from the political left
Professor John Richards of Simon Fraser University says the "non-traditional left" is doing some serious thinking. Don Cayo looks at some of the idea's being put forward.
Too many lawyers? Or is it too few?
The uncharitable might say that any lawyer at all is one too many. But as Don Cayo writes, the facts suggest the legal profession is falling on politically hard times, at least in this region.