Author: Richard Starr

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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Status quo Nova Scotia byelections shed no light on the political road ahead

Posted by Richard Starr | Sep 6, 2019 | Nova Scotia Politics, Politics |

Anyone expecting clear harbingers of things to come from this week’s three byelections in Nova...

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Greens should run from Conservative climate policy fiasco

Posted by Richard Starr | Aug 29, 2019 | Federal Politics |

With almost two months to go before the federal election the mainstream media are already into...

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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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