Meaningless law masks failure to act
Don Cayo writes about Camille theriault's "health care guarentee" legislation
Why do failures overshadow the many success stories?
Don Cayo examines the gap between the headlines and the realities of economic growth in Atlantic Canada.
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.
Sweeping away the coal curtain
The coal curtain is being swept away in Cape Breton, and maybe soon the steel wall - Cape Breton's subsidized steel industry - will come tumbling down. This should be a time of jubilee in Cape Breton, an occasion to pop champagne corks, not cry over split milk. Fred McMahon, 1999
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.
Why are so many schools so ‘sick’?
Don Cayo on "sick building syndrome" and why its affecting schools in Atlantic Canada.