Author: Richard Starr

Media coverage of transfers comforts the comfortable

Posted by Richard Starr | Dec 23, 2015 | Federal Politics |

Ottawa’s participants were new but it was otherwise much the same old story early this week when...

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Middle Class Tax Cut – not exactly as advertised

Posted by Richard Starr | Dec 12, 2015 | Federal Politics |

The Justin Trudeau government’s Robin Hood mask slipped a bit this week with the discovery that...

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Politics have driven up the cost of health administration

Posted by Richard Starr | Nov 23, 2015 | Health Care |

There was a minor dust-up in the legislature last week about the cost of merging Nova Scotia’s...

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Liberal Electricity Plan: Some guys have all the luck

Posted by Richard Starr | Nov 20, 2015 | Environment/Energy, Nova Scotia Politics |

The Liberals, whose victory two years ago owed much to the claim they could do a better job than...

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Same old song from the AG – and it’s still off key

Posted by Richard Starr | Nov 11, 2015 | Nova Scotia Politics |

The provincial Auditor General delivered another of his regular reports on matters financial last...

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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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