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Column: Health care: Looking forward may require looking back

Details: Last Updated: Tuesday, 21 September 2021 14:01

September 22, 2021

-by Frank Macdonald
Nova Scotia’s new premier, Tim Houston, and health minister, Michelle Thompson, are currently on a ‘listening tour’ of the province to hear how health professionals think the new government should prioritize Nova Scotia’s serial health care crises. At the end of the listening tour, perhaps the people of the province will be surprised by the insights and policies enacted because a premier listened. But don’t bet any of your vital organs on it.

Letter: The rule of law – Illegal annexation of CBI and unequal equalization administration: Grounds for judicial review

Details: Last Updated: Tuesday, 21 September 2021 14:57

September 22, 2021

Dear Editor,
CBI’s illegal annexation by NS in 1820 and subsequent entry into Canada’s Confederation 1867, along with recent decades of Nova Scotia’s unequal administration of Canada’s constitutionally based “equalization” program are grounds for a judicial review. There are four principal grounds of judicial review available in law (some overlap), and they are: 1. Procedural Impropriety, 2. Illegality, 3. Unreasonableness, and 4. Unconstitutionality.