Author: Richard Starr

Election 2019: Big parties downplay health care issue

Posted by Richard Starr | Oct 17, 2019 | Health Care |

Although polling has found that it ranks as one of the top issues for voters, health care has...

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Election 2019: Fact checking the fact checkers

Posted by Richard Starr | Oct 9, 2019 | Federal Politics |

Monday night’s English-language leaders’ debate produced a fresh flurry of media fact checking, a...

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Update: Physician workforce grows but bureaucracy costs remain a problem

Posted by Richard Starr | Oct 3, 2019 | Health Care, Updates |

The first question period of the fall session of the Nova Scotia legislature began with a familiar...

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Tax cuts are the wrong approach to affordability issue

Posted by Richard Starr | Sep 27, 2019 | Federal Politics |

It would hardly be an election campaign without promises of tax cuts. And that’s more the case in...

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Housing Strategy debunked but Liberals keep flogging it anyway

Posted by Richard Starr | Sep 22, 2019 | Federal Politics |

It’s still a long way from election day. There’s another four weeks in which to catalogue the...

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RICHARD 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.

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