This story is part of an ongoing CBC Nova Scotia series examining how the province is managing its record-setting population boom after decades of limited growth.
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is fond of using the phrase “more, faster” when discussing health care in the province, but the tagline could just as easily be applied to his goal for growing the population.
After crawling at a snail’s pace for years, the number of Nova Scotians topped the one million mark for the first time in December 2021 on the strength of years of expanded immigration efforts and a global pandemic that made the
