Author: Richard Starr

Déjà vu all over again? Maybe not.

Posted by Richard Starr | Oct 21, 2015 | Federal Politics |

I had a flashback while scrutineering the vote count Monday night in the basement of the South End...

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Health debate makes a blip on the campaign radar

Posted by Richard Starr | Oct 4, 2015 | Federal Politics, Health Care |

The much-anticipated (by some) debate on health transfers put in a cameo in the federal election...

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Failure to launch: The campaign and the health-care debate

Posted by Richard Starr | Sep 22, 2015 | Federal Politics, Health Care |

There is a major irony at play so far in the federal election campaign. The media keep reporting...

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Harper gloats while everyone overlooks the main story

Posted by Richard Starr | Sep 16, 2015 | Federal Politics |

After being knocked off course by (as a Prime Minister of the UK once famously put it “events,...

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Public Accounts contradict Liberal gloom and doom

Posted by Richard Starr | Sep 8, 2015 | Nova Scotia Politics |

When Nova Scotia Finance Minister Randy Delorey summoned public sector union leaders last month to...

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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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