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.
Newfoundland sealing videos
Fred McMahon examines the seal fishery and the "war" of videos.
Preserving old industries
The age of wooden ships and iron men was an age of gold for the powerful economies of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. But, iron ships took to the sea, and our ship-building industry rotted away. We hung on to the old, and failed the new. Like most myths, this is part fable and part truth - but it's oh, so relevant today. We still hang on to the old - at huge expense - and fail the new. Fr5ed McMahon in the The Moncton Times and Transcript and the Halifax Daily News, 1999.
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