{"id":16095,"date":"2020-08-11T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=16095"},"modified":"2020-08-11T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T19:30:00","slug":"rural-high-speed-internet-among-issues-houston-hearing-about-from-residents-in-east-hants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=16095","title":{"rendered":"Rural high-speed Internet among issues Houston hearing about from residents in East Hants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ENFIELD:<\/strong> The leader of the N.S. PC Party acknowledges there are many issues facing residents and businesses in the East Hants region, much like they are province wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a one-on-one interview with The Laker News inside an Enfield coffee shop, Tim Houston was asked about what he had heard about issues in the area. These included the need to replace outdated schools; the impact the closure of Northern Pulp had on forestry businesses in the area; and rural internet, among other topics discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe issues are quite diverse,\u201d said Houston. \u201cThere are a lot of people struggling. The issues I hear from this area are still access to healthcare; the economy, the forestry; and you can\u2019t talk about the economy in this province without talking about rural internet. There are big challenges around rural Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He feels rural internet could be an economic engine for the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI believe that proper high-speed internet across the province would be the biggest economic development initiative since the railway,\u201d said Houston. \u201cIt\u2019s that important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s something I hear about a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Houston said the COVID19 pandemic has showed just how vital high-speed internet is, and the lack of it was troublesome for many who worked from home for weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe need for high speed internet was exposed with COVID19,\u201d he said. \u201cOur traditional highways were pretty empty. There wasn\u2019t a lot of vehicles moving, but the information highway on the otherhand were just cooking along. There were a lot of people were working from home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said other industries such as the environment, fishing, and forestry also play a key role in Nova Scotia\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have to find a way to find that balance between economic growth and environmental stewardship,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENFIELD: The leader of the N.S. PC Party acknowledges there are many issues facing residents and businesses in the East Hants region, much like they are province wide. During a one-on-one interview with The Laker News inside an Enfield coffee shop, Tim Houston was asked about what he had heard about issues in the area. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965],"tags":[196,263,1329,1254],"class_list":["post-16095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","tag-east-hants","tag-nspc","tag-rural-high-speed-internet","tag-tim-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}