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IT’S NO SECRET that magazine publishing in Atlantic Canada is a tough business—but boy, do we get support. Eight years in, our readership growth and subscription renewals are still strong; newsstand owners all across the region seem to go out of their way to give us prominent placement; and the Canada Post folks on the ground deliver your subscription copies with both speed and efficiency.
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Florida has a healthy retirement-based economy: could we achieve the same?
WE HAVE, in the recent past, run a series of articles on the unpleasant realities facing much of rural Atlantic Canada—loss of economic base leading to loss of population base leading to loss of services leading to loss of community.
It’s a sad, sad story. Plausible initiatives appear to be in very short supply indeed. The demographic realities of an aging population are not in our favour. |
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WE HAVE NO wish to belabour the tragic events last October 14 when Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski died after being tasered by RCMP at Vancouver International Airport…
But as we watched the event and the media analysis unfold, we found ourselves constantly wondering if a visitor, clearly disoriented and frustrated, could have spent 10 hours in an Atlantic Canadian airport terminal without someone, anyone, coming to his aid.
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YOU WILL NOTICE (or you may not) that Saltscapes has changed size slightly with this issue. It’s a small thing for you, the reader, but a big deal for us in terms of the logistical changes that must be made internally, so we’ve been working and planning and fretting for some considerable time. Ours is an industry where millimetres matter.
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ACCORDING TO THE Human Development Report published annually by the United Nations, Norway and Iceland are regularly among those nations leading the world as the best places to live because of their high levels of education, democracy, income and public health.
And Canada is regularly right up there on that index as well.
But, as we here continue the sombre countdown on the impending demise of many of our rural communities as their services and their populations steadily erode, it was enlightening in recent weeks to tour Norway and see first-hand how that nation is ensuring the integrity of its small coastal communities. (We saw a parallel situation during an earlier trip to Iceland.) |
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