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• AGAR ADAMSON: Do we really live in a democracy?
  BY AGAR ADAMSON At the moment, one can only speculate as to the eventual outcome of the political uprisings now taking place in Egypt, Tunisia, ...
• AGAR ADAMSON: Wolfville clear, status quo won't do
  BY AGAR ADAMSON Kings County Advertiser/Register For many years, smaller communities in Switzerland and certain American states have had a ...
• AGAR ADAMSON: Time for the Maritimes to ‘heal...
  BY AGAR ADAMSON The recent meeting of the four Atlantic premiers in Pictou reminds one of the need for Maritime union. Yes, it is time to once ...
• AGAR ADAMSON: Our veterans deserve better
  BY AGAR ADAMSON It appears a lot of water has gone over the dam recently. I am not talking about the excessive amount of rain we have received ...
• AGAR ADAMSON: A lesson from Yugoslavia
  BY AGAR ADAMSON One of the most important aspects of any political system is the protection of minorities and the education of the majority. On a ...
• AGAR ADAMSON: The 2010 American elections!
  BY AGAR ADAMSON The United States is a political conundrum. It is the world’s second largest democracy after India and the oldest ...
• AGAR ADAMSON: An Irish stew of Nova Scotia politics?
  BY AGAR ADAMSON As one enjoys the last days of summer, they are perhaps reluctantly reminded of public policy debates yet to come, as well as the ...
• AGAR ADAMSON: Pakistan - a failed state?
  BY AGAR ADAMSON Pakistan, a creation of political expediency in 1948, continues to have a torturous existence, rocked by internal and external ...
• AGAR ADAMSON: Taking the long road
  BY AGAR ADAMSON Two recent news items have brought to the fore the debate between individual rights and the common good. The question is when ...
• AGAR ADAMSON: The monarchy: a constitutional necessity
  BY AGAR ADAMSON The recent visit of the Queen of Canada reminds one of the important division of powers between the constitutional head of ...
• AGAR ADAMSON: Canada at 143?
  BY AGAR ADAMSON One of the problems of being a political columnist is, how can one be politically neutral - yet objective - when immersed in an ...
• AGAR ADAMSON: Too many municipal governments?
  BY AGAR ADAMSON In many Nova Scotia municipalities, May 31 was semi-annual tax day; the other shoe will drop in a few months’ time. As you ...
• AGAR ADAMSON: Was Chicken Little right?
  BY AGAR ADAMSON Once upon a time, there was a politician who cried out the sky is falling but no one listened - until, one day, the sky ...
• AGAR ADAMSON: How much value in the duty of government?
  BY AGAR ADAMSON Does government have a duty to protect its citizens? What’s the job of government? What do we expect? These are questions which ...