Canadian Potage
AIMS president Don Cayo asks, "Has Confederation been worth it for Newfoundland ? It's been 50 years since the island province made its first moves toward leaving Britain and federating with another country. Time to look at the balance sheet."
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.
Population Change in Atlantic Canada
MEDIA ADVISORY Demographically challenged:
Close Cape Breton’s coal industry
It's time to let Cape Breton's coal industry die a natural death. The cost of keeping it alive is just too immense in wasted treasure, pollution, lost jobs, and squandered economic opportunity throughout Nova Scotia. Fred McMahon-1998
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.