In the early 1990s, after 14 years at The Globe and Mail in Toronto, Vivian Smith moved with her husband to Victoria, where he opened the newspaper’s first bureau in the city. There was no job for her. Her bosses would not permit her to work part time during her husband’s five-year deployment as bureau chief because that would set an unthinkable…
Mary Janigan
Mary Janigan is a member of The Globe and Mail’s editorial board. She has won the Hy Solomon award for public policy journalism.
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What Is to Be Done?
Diagnosis and prescription for the chronic maladies of the Maritime provinces May 2006
Inadvertently marginalized, alternately castigated and pitied for its seeming dependency, the Maritime region has stumbled into the 21st century as the near-perfect example of Ottawa’s ineptitude. After billions of dollars in transfers and decades of well-meaning programs, those three provinces perched on the Atlantic periphery have little to show for the federal government’s fitful efforts. So when Paul Martin called New Brunswick sage Donald…