Federal deficit projection grows but no new help for child care, seniors or disabled
The federal Liberal government last week tabled its much-anticipated fiscal update – dubbed...
Read MorePosted by Richard Starr | Jul 13, 2020 | Federal Politics |
The federal Liberal government last week tabled its much-anticipated fiscal update – dubbed...
Read MorePosted by Richard Starr | Jun 27, 2020 | Federal Politics |
It may be a stretch to call it “the boot heard round the world.” But Jagmeet Singh attracted...
Read MorePosted by Richard Starr | Jun 22, 2020 | Federal Politics |
The Parliamentary Budget Office, about the only worthwhile thing to emerge from nine years of the...
Read MorePosted by Richard Starr | Jun 14, 2020 | Federal Politics |
For a brief but far from shining moment this past week, Canadians with disabilities were in the...
Read MorePosted by Richard Starr | May 14, 2020 | Federal Politics |
Not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth but I couldn’t help being conflicted on hearing that...
Read MorePosted by Richard Starr | Dec 20, 2019 | Federal Politics |
It was Alberta time again in Ottawa with the province’s demands for a re-jigging of the previously...
Read MoreRICHARD STARR has had careers as a journalist, public servant, broadcaster, political staffer and freelance policy adviser. He is author of numerous newspaper and magazine articles, a former radio and TV producer and weekly newspaper editor, and the author of three non-fiction books. Starr has lived in Dartmouth for more than 30 years.