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Unite what right? by Don Cayo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unite the right? This "national" preoccupation isn’t causing much stir down here in the Maritimes. Who cares who gets to drive -- the fiscal or the social conservatives? Why worry our heads about ...

Government can’t fill this bottomless pit. by Don Cayo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HALIFAX You’ve no doubt heard the story: A whole bunch of Atlantic Canadians are thrown out of work, they land down on their luck, and Ottawa offers mere token aid ...

TAGS: How did it come to this? by Don Cayo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1930s were as rough down East as anywhere. And the 1920s, which were boom times everywhere else, were even worse. Yet at the height of the Great Depression, ...

Stunted cities, stunted growth. by Don Cayo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How much of the Maritimes long-term economic weakness stems from the region’s failure to develop a real city? I ask myself that question often, but never moreso than when I read -- ...

Taking Ownership How to Make the Atlantic Fishery An Engine of Economic Growth The Atlantic fishery is hit by a major crisis about once every 10 years. Yet little has been done since the most recent crisis to resolve the ...

Taking Ownership: Property Rights and Fishery Management on the Atlantic Coast Professor Scott sets the tone for the volume as a whole by asking why one might think that a rights-based approach to fishing would produce better economic and conservation ...

Behind the Cod Curtain Leslie Burke and Leo Brander Canada ran its east coast fishery in much the same way the Soviet Union ran its economy - and it should be no surprise that both shared much the same fate ...