Billed as its first ever International Transportation Summit, the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association plans a conference in October that will be of particular interest to the Atlantica concept.
In this op/ed in the Cape Breton Post, AIMS senior policy analyst Bobby O'Keefe ponders the usefulness of school boards. He points out the best student performance in the province takes place in school districts where the elected boards are in disarray.
A US congresswoman is eyeing a container terminal in Canso as Ohio's gateway to the world.
This editorial in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal uses the AIMS Interim Municipal Report Card, to show the need for fair value for the money taxpayers spend on municipal services. It says such information is vital if local councillors are to make informed and fair decisions.
The Nova Scotia Department of Education is taking AIMS' advice and is releasing provincial exam results. AIMS senior policy analyst Bobby O'Keefe says the next step is to release school by school results and then use the data to alter programmes to improve student performance.
Growing energy demand combined with high fossil fuel prices and the quest for alternative, greener, sources of energy have raised interest in northern Maine's wind power potential, especially by out-of state investors. Proposed investments would tie this part of the state to the wider New England power grid by late 2010 providing a stimilus to a distressed region at the same time as reducing the reliance on fossil fuels and diversifying the wider power grid region wide.
For the past 40 years, Ottawa created policies that were designed to "mop up" the excess workers of the baby boom generation. In this article, the second in an outmigration series by The Canadian Press, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley says those policies need to change to address the shrinking labour market.
Dalhousie University's Centre for International Trade and Transportation has received funding from the province and ACOA for a two year project to study the Atlantic Gateway. Several conferences, working papers and studies are in the plans already for the next year to look at the region's potential to link Asian with North American markets.
There was a lot of interest in what James Foote, CN's executive VP, had to say about the rail business in Eastern Canada at a luncheon hosted by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce. CN is the only rail line connecting the Port of Halifax with the rest of North America's rail grid; a crucial mode of transportation in making any port and corridor a success. His talk highlighted some of the challenges the region faces at a time when future trade flows through the Suez Canal from Asia are likely to put additional pressure along East Coast ports and connecting rail services.
To make her point of a looming labour shortage, Secretary of State for Small Business and Tourism Diane Ablonczy uses research by AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley.