AIMS On-Line February 5, 2004
Latest in AIMS’ “Atlantica” Series Verifies Importance of Cross-Border Synergy, and two columns from Brian Lee Crowley - Farmed Salmon: The moral panic du jour and Scientific Consensus: The first refuge of scoundrels.
International urban expert challenges thinking behind HRM land freeze
Wendell Cox says rationing land "defies logic...in a region thirsting for growth"
Live Tax Free or Die
How Vermont’s tax regime drives business to New Hampshire
Scientific Consensus: The first refuge of scoundrels
True science is not about committing to any particular outcome or set of results. It is not about proving global warming or the safety of genetically engineered foods. It is about a commitment to using scientific method to determine what is true. That means being committed to whatever results the method produces, regardless of the popularity of those results. When Galileo set out to determine if the earth was indeed not the centre of the universe, he was met head on with a “scientific consensus” of the day that vehemently said otherwise. 400 years, and presumably some enlightenment later, the argument of “scientific consensus” continues to be trotted out when the result of scientific study proves politically inconvenient. AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley argues that science does not move ahead via consensus and that scientific innovation almost always has to struggle against those with a vested interest in things staying just the way they are.
AIMS On-Line January 16, 2004
Wendell Cox warns how "Smart Growth" is a recipe for urban decline and social injustice. Also ACOA as a political tool, AIMS perspective on public auto insurance and AIMS Director of Research ask the House of Commons Health Commitee if the the drive for cheaper drugs costing lives?
Un coup d’épée dans l’eau: 40 ans «de développement économique régional»
Les efforts de développement fournis par le gouvernement fédéral dans le Canada atlantique ont contribué à un taux de croissance économique généralement anémique. Dans sa chronique régulière dans La Presse, le plus grand quotidien de langue française de l’Amérique du Nord, le président de AIMS, Brian Lee Crowley observe que, c'est évidemment pure coïncidence que ce phénomène correspond à la période précédant de peu les élections fédérales.
Watchdog : ACOA went on pre-vote spending spree
Media was quick to respond to the release of AIMS second publication of ACOA Watch: Locking Up the Pork Barrel. In two articles, one from the Ottawa Bureau of the Halifax Chronicle Herald and another appearing in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley outlines the importance of the C.D. Howe research on the political motivation behind ACOA spending. According to the figures released in Brooking No Favourites by Jack Mintz and Michael Smart and the subsequent AIMS document ACOA Watch, the total of grants and contributions from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency peak just before the federal election calls.
Study slams ACOA record
Media was quick to respond to the release of AIMS second publication of ACOA Watch: Locking Up the Pork Barrel. In two articles, one from the Ottawa Bureau of the Halifax Chronicle Herald and another appearing in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley outlines the importance of the C.D. Howe research on the political motivation behind ACOA spending. According to the figures released in Brooking No Favourites by Jack Mintz and Michael Smart and the subsequent AIMS document ACOA Watch, the total of grants and contributions from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency peak just before the federal election calls.
AIMS On-Line December 16, 2003
What's New at Atlantic Canada's Public Policy Think Tank
AIMS Releases ACOA Watch #2: Locking Up the Pork Barrel
Examines new evidence of the politicization of ACOA spending