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Resource Revenues – what to do with them once you have them

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-11-17T00:00:00+00:00 November 17th, 2004|In the Media|

Now that it looks like Nova Scotia and Nefoundland and Labrador will win the latest federal-provincial debate about natural resource revenues, it is important to remember that an even more important question remains to be settled. What you do with the money once you've got it? Natural resource revenues are not reliable revenues nor are they akin to "normal" government revenues like sales or income taxes. As one time payments based on the fluctuating value of assets that are being permanently liquidated they should not be used to fund current demands that turn into long term commitments. Read this piece to see why and how one time windfalls, as natural resorce revenues inarguably are, need to be invested not wasted. Slightly different versions of this column appeared in both the Chronicle Herald and the Times and Transcript.

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Business Voice explores positive impacts of Atlantica’s deep roots

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-11-09T00:00:00+00:00 November 9th, 2004|In the Media|

No one was surprised when the United States responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks by locking down security wherever people and commerce move. In an interview with Business Voice just after the attacks, Brian Lee Crowley, president of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, said “If there’s going to be a North American (security) perimeter, we must be on the inside.” Now, three years later, Business Voice returns to the Canada-U.S. relationship in this cover story and discovers that Canada is increasingly “inside the perimeter” and that things are not as gloomy as many think. Read this piece to see how the concepts underpinning Atlantica: geography, economic trends and trade patterns; common problems and experiences; and politics, are having a positive impact as this region copes with a new reality.

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AIMS 10th Anniversary Banquet

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-11-09T00:00:00+00:00 November 9th, 2004|Event Proceedings|

On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, AIMS celebrated it 10th anniversary with a banquet, which featured speakers such as former United States Senator and Secretary of Defense, William Cohen and former Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney.

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Atlantica Council officially launched

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 November 5th, 2004|In the Media|

At a meeting in Saint John, New Brunswick, recently, several groups joined together with AIMS to form a new Atlantica Council to promote this cross-border region and its natural economic affinities. Among the groups represented at the meeting were the Atlantic Provinces Chambers of Commerce, Enterprise Saint John, the Eastern Maine Development Corporation, Progress Corp., the Maine International Trade Center and Enterprise Greater Moncton. AIMS took advantage of the occasion to launch its new Atlantica website: www.atlantica.org. This is further evidence of the growing momentum behind this concept, which AIMS has been instrumental in popularizing.

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How NOT to shorten the queues for needed surgery (NS)

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2016-03-17T18:57:19+00:00 November 3rd, 2004|In the Media|

To consider the issue of how NOT to shorten queues for needed surgery from the NS persepctive, read this story.

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How NOT to shorten the queues for needed surgery (NB)

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2016-03-17T18:56:22+00:00 November 3rd, 2004|In the Media|

If your top priority was to cut waiting times for vital surgery in our public health care system, the very last thing you would want to do would be to cut the number of operating theatres and their hours of operation, and put surgeons on salary so that the monetary rewards for a hard-working productive surgeon are prety much the same as those for a surgeon who prefers golf to appendectomies. So what have the managers of the Nova Scotia health care system done? They've cut the number of operating theatres and their hours of operation, and put surgeons on salary. How crazy is this? And before New Brunswickers and Prince Edward Islanders get too smug about this, they should recall that Halifax is an important regional centre offering surgical services to patients from these neighbouring provinces.

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US flu vaccine crisis: government health “gurus” triumph again. AIMS in the National Post

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 October 29th, 2004|In the Media|

If the would-be reformers of the pharmaceutical sector get their way, the whole sector will wind up looking remarkably like the U.S. flu vaccine sector. And yet, according to AIMS author and health economist Brian Ferguson, the flu vaccine crisis was produced by the very policies favoured by those who seek to reform the entire pharmaceutical industry. In this op-ed piece on the Comment page of the Financial Post, he asks, "Any lesson here?"

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Ideas Matter #4

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 October 26th, 2004|Policy Papers|

Atlantica: the International Northeast Economic Region (AINER) is defined chiefly by geography, economic trends and trade patterns; common problems and experiences; and politics. Much of this wedge of territory has been outside the charmed circle of North American prosperity for years. This edition of Ideas Matter makes the case for why that has to, and is, changing.

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AIMS Online, 26 October 2004

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 October 26th, 2004|Newsletters|

Covered in this issue - why John Kerry is wrong about re-importation of Canadian drugs, holding the environmental movement to account, a new weekly TV show featuring AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley, community leadership modelled on AIMS report card work, the ongoing debate about rising education tuitions, more on who should own the sea, and finally the challenges ahead for Membertou Inc.'s successful business based model of aboriginal self-government.

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What’s at stake for Canada in US trip to polls?

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 October 24th, 2004|In the Media|

Many Canucks make the mistake of looking at this presidential contest as if they were Americans, and asking how they would vote if they lived in Michigan or Florida. But we live in Canada, and that makes the calculation about who would make the best president a rather different one. In a series of articles in La Presse, the Chronicle Herald, and the Times & Transcript, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley explores the potential impacts of the US election on Canada.

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