This story on the front page of the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal is based on AIMS' "Fuel for Thought" Breakfast Briefing with Carol Montreuil, VP of the Canadian Petroleum Products Institute. His presentation surprised many when he told the audience to use less energy.
A suggestion by Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald that he would use future oil and gas royalties for general revenue, not debt repayment, did not go down well with the editorial writers at the Halifax Chronicle-Herald. In this article they tell the Premier to listen to Brian Lee Crowley and AIMS. Similar editorials appeared in the Truro Daily News and the New Glasgow Evening News.
Atlantica’s success will depend on connections: Business connections, physical connections and transportation connections.
A recent study by economists at Queen's University and the University of California at Santa Barbara, compared employment data in Maine and New Brunswick from 1940 to 1991. The comparison isn't flattering. The study confirms much of AIMS' research that EI hampers employment growth. The Telegraph-Journal called on AIMS to provide context for the study's findings.
The AIMS special Commentary Series on Equalization prompted editorials and columns across Canada. Alan Holman, a columnist with The Guardian, was prompted to write this column after reading that not only are there more civil servants per capita in equalization receiving provinces, but they are paid considerable more than the provincial average.
In his regular Globe and Mail column on 4 July 2006, John Ibbitson turned his attention to a pending national labour shortage. He pointed out governments need to wake up and used AIMS Special Commentary Series on Equalization to show governments actually encourage workers to be unproductive.
This editorial in the national edition of The Globe and Mail, reviews the first two papers in AIMS' special Equalization Commentary Series. It accepts the research saying Canada is over-equalizing, and concludes - "Enough already!"
OECD prescription for Canada’s economic health mirrors AIMS’ work in equalization, EI, federal-provincial relations & more.
How Canada's Equalization program over-equalizes. How the fishery needs to be rationalized. How the Newfoundland government is hampering business in that province. And how agriculture needs to work in today's world, not yesterday's. All this and more in this edition of The Beacon.
The message is simple, 'the world doesn’t adapt to us'. When people are free to buy what they please, you have to give them what they want. In his fortnightly column, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley explains this principle is relevant to everything we do in Atlantic Canada, but nowhere is it more important than in agriculture.