Liquified natural gas (LNG) is all the buzz through the Maritimes these days. There are terminals planned for Saint John, NB, Bear Head, NS, and Goldboro, NS. In his fortnightly column in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald and the Saint John Times & Transcript, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley points out the opportunity may be golden, but it's also fleeting.
This special edition of The Beacon brings you to AIMS' Celtic Tiger Dinner in Saint John, New Brunswick. The evening was called "thought-provoking and fascinating" by New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord. Read through this Beacon to learn why the Premier found the AIMS event so inspiring.
Brian Lee Crowley, président de Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, écrit "Je n'avais jamais songé aux leçons que le Québec pouvait tirer de l'expérience irlandaise. Mon institut a célébré dernièrement son 10e anniversaire par un banquet à Saint-Jean, au Nouveau-Brunswick. Notre conférencier invité était Garrett FitzGerald, l'un des grands architectes des réformes politiques qui ont transformé la République irlandaise en " tigre celtique ". En écoutant l'ancien premier ministre irlandais exposer si éloquemment comment la République d'Irlande avait échappé au sort de l'Irlande du Nord par un simple accident temporel, je ne pouvais m'empêcher de penser au mouvement souverainiste au Québec."
When Kelly Toughill of the Toronto Star wrote a story about the graudal economic turnaround of Nova Scotia, she turned to the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies for insight.
The New Brunswick forestry industry may soon be starving for wood. In his fortnightly column in the Moncton Times-Transcript, Brian Lee Crowley explains the government needs to loosen its hold on crown land. Otherwise the forestry industry, a major economic generator for the province, will falter and fail.
The Nova Scotia government started on its road to gas re-regulation to appease consumers indignate over gasoline at a dollar plus a litre. But as Brian Lee Crowley explains in his fortnightly column in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, the road has veered off course and now heads to even higher gas prices for consumers.
The Atlantica concept envisions the International Northeast as a corridor linking the new Asian seaborne trade with major North American markets. It is not just a theory or a concept. On July 1, a wide range of retail goods including apparel, electronics and furniture set sail for Halifax using an all water route from Asia and the Indian Sub-continent via the Suez Canal. This announcement by the Port of Halifax and the Canadian Retail Shippers’ Association (CRSA) is a major contribution to making Halifax and the International Northeast a distribution hub for goods using the Suez route to reach eastern and central North America from Asia. If the Port of Halifax performs well in this new role as distribution centre, this decision by the CRSA could be the first of many of its kind.
Health care takes centre stage in this latest edition of the Beacon as policy makers, thought leaders, regional and national media, and a new generation of health consumers all turn to AIMS to get the straight goods on drug reimportation, reporting on whether our hospitals actually make you better and, of course, the recent Supreme Court decision on the future of health care itself.
Businesspeople in Fredericton are the latest to question and welcome Atlantica. In this article in Fredericton's Daily Gleaner, proponents of the concept, including AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley, explain the steps needed to make Atlantica a reality.
The Supreme Court of Canada decision on health care had media across the country scrambling to find informed commentators. Many reporters turned to AIMS for that expert comment.