The Beacon - May 2016 | Vol XXII, No. 10 AIMS Health Literacy Forum Our latest AIMS Health Literacy Forum was a resounding success. We are delighted that over 350 people came to discuss the healthcare system and the ways that they, as users, can help to improve its performance. Among those in attendance were business [...]
Canadian Press writer reports on Paul Bennett’s policy paper for AIMS, entitled “E-Learning in K-12 Schools: The Prospects for Disruptive Innovation.” The paper details Atlantic Canada's lethargy in e-learning reform. Read the full article on the Telegraph-Journal website. FREDERICTON - A new report says New Brunswick and the Atlantic provinces are falling behind other jurisdictions when [...]
Halifax's Chronicle Herald reports on Paul Bennett's policy paper, entitled "E-Learning in K-12 Schools: The Prospects for Disruptive Innovation," which contends that the Atlantic provinces have lost the e-learning initiative. Read the full article on the Chronicle Herald website. A new report from a Maritime think tank says schools in Atlantic Canada have fallen way [...]
The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) today released a report about how school systems in Atlantic Canada are slow to adopt to changing teaching methods and are falling behind other jurisdictions in the transition to e-learning in schools. The study, entitled E-Learning in K-12 Schools: The Prospects for Disruptive Innovation, examines how Nova Scotia, [...]
Interprovincial trade barriers in Canada are a burden to consumers and an obstacle to producers. But the case of Gerard Comeau of new Brunswick gives us hope. Comeau, who was charged for bringing alcohol over the Quebec-New Brunswick border, was recently acquitted. The judge ruled that New Brunswick's law restricting the transport of [...]
Atlantic Canada competes with New England for business, which is influenced by tax rates. Let’s look at the differences. Vermont prides itself on social programs like we do, but taxes much less. Its low-income earners pay just 3.6 percent on taxable income, compared with our best rate in Newfoundland, over twice as much. [...]
The Beacon - April 2016 | Volume XXII, No. 9 Changes to Employment Insurance Last week, I was asked to speak to a group of fiery young Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs, who were meeting in Shediac, New Brunswick. People in business are typically concerned - as they should be - with their bottom line. The more so during [...]
Healthcare is the largest expense in provincial budgets and a hugely important public service. But our system lacks accountability: little to no attention is paid to health outcomes, which would tell us how effective our health system is working, where improvements could be made, and where costs could be lowered. Citizens should insist that governments [...]
Some changes that Ottawa has made to the employment insurance program are perfectly sensible, such as extending benefits to those living in provinces experiencing the energy sector downturn. But making it easier for young workers in Atlantic Canada to qualify for EI is a bad idea. By dramatically lowering the work requirement from [...]
AIMS education analyst Paul Bennett is featured in this story from CBC News: The National. Please click here to see the video.