https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-population-boom-1.6899752
Interesting article with lots of data on the population growth in NS. It’s a great thing, but the challenges are also obvious. Interestingly the part that gets the most airtime - housing cost - is the one where government can frankly have the least impact. To me, the two that they need to solve is access to primary care physicians (partly under their control) and improved public transport (fully under their control). Ironically then, given it’s a problem that’s within their power to solve, I see no unified vision for public transport coming from in particular the provincial government. As many have noted here these things are years in the making and so planning needs to have started years ago, with our municipal and provincial governments working together to think big rather than small and ready to pounce when federal funds are available. That one’s a problem they could actually solve!