AIMS Welcomes Patrick Luciani
New Senior Fellow Urban Policy
AIMS fires back at study’s critics
Since the release of AIMS Report Card on Atlantic Canadian high schools more than a month ago, teacher associations and government leaders have categorized the study as misleading, flawed in its data and demonstrating poor methodology. But AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley said none of the government recipients of the study has yet been specific in its claims.
Academics line up to endorse AIMS report card
AIMS methodology “exceptional”, “fair”, “illuminating”, “objective”
Getting the Message – Lower Taxes = Regional Growth
Politics may play a part, however the move toward lowering taxes in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick shows provincial governments in Atlantic Canada are increasingly giving signs they understand that growth - and taxes- matter.
AIMS Calls on Education Ministers to Withdraw Unjustified Attacks on High School Report Card
Newfoundland's claims unsubstantiated. Repetition by other ministers both unfair and uninformed
Canada and the USA – Bad Mood Rising?
Brian Lee Crowley addresses Canada's position on the war in Iraq.
Maybe the time has come to phase out ACOA – Crosbie
AIMS recent release of ACOA Watch has reinvigorated the debate surrounding the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. In a frank interview with the Saint John Telegraph Journal, John Crosbie, who was once the minister responsible for ACOA in the early 1990s, argued it's time to look at phasing out Ottawa's principal agency for economic development in Atlantic Canada. "It's time for new and different initiatives to be tried because what we have been doing hasn't been that tremendously effective"
Newsletter attacks ACOA numbers – Federal minister uses strong language in response to claims by think tank
ACOA Watch, AIMS most recent series of publications has drawn a curious response from the federal Minister responsible for ACOA, the Hon. Gerry Byrne. In an interview with Moncton Times Transcript reporter Campbell Morrison. Mr. Byrne said "Interesting to see where this ACOA Watch goes and their little newsletter, and see whether they are not walking, talking hypocrites," ACOA Watch is an independent objective analysis of Atlantic Canada’s primary federal economic development agency. In response to being read this and other derisive comments, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley responded, "Climbing down into this kind of personal attack suggests that the minister does not know what to say about the substance of the matter. I’d be glad to debate the substance with him but I am not going to get into name-calling with him."
AIMS On-Line for late March 2003
Here is what's new at AIMS, Atlantic Canada's Public Policy Think Tank
Canada and the US – The Narcissism of Small Differences
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley says, whatever your attitude to the Iraq conflict, maintaining positive and constructive relations with the United States is in Canada's national interest. This is not merely a matter of crude economics, however important that may be. Much more significantly, we share a set of moral, democratic and other values with the United States that make them our friends and allies in the very deepest sense of those words.