The Beacon - Special Budget 2016 Bulletin | Volume XXII, No. 6 Employment Insurance in the crosshairs: What Atlantic Canada needs to know Having spent the week analyzing Budget 2016 and its overall impact on Atlantic Canada, AIMS' senior executives, Marco Navarro-Genie and John Williamson, provide an analysis on what you need to know about subsidies and Employment [...]
AIMS education author Paul Bennett is quoted in a CBC story about teacher misconduct. The Marketplace report reveals that the disciplinary process is inefficient and often hidden from the public. Read the full story on the CBC Marketplace website. Marketplace analyzed the [Ontario College of Teachers]'s cases [of alleged teacher misconduct] from the past [...]
The Beacon - April 2016 | Volume XXII, No. 8 The 2016 Federal Budget Reactions to the federal budget are still pouring in. At AIMS we have drawn attention to consequences the federal budget might have on employment and youth. We are keeping an eye on Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador's respective budgets soon [...]
The Beacon - April 2016 | Volume XXII, No. 7 Our visit to Prince Edward Island promoting market solutions and the AIMS brand at the end of March proved very successful. I had the good fortune to meet with Board Members, donors and prospective donors, and visited friends at the Rotary Club of Charlottetown [...]
A Telegraph-Journal editorial criticizes subsidy-induced job growth. Citing AIMS's "I'll take New England Anyday!", it recommends "freezing — and then cutting — marginal tax rates and ... removing barriers to private-sector job creation." Read the full editorial here. The idea of government subsidies going up in smoke is usually only a metaphor for wasteful spending. [...]
A Times & Transcript editorial references AIMS' study "I'll take New England Anyday!", counseling against subsidy-based job creation and recommending that hidden tax hikes, like higher gasoline taxes, be avoided. Read the full editorial here. The Gallant government seems to be having its struggles of late attempting to achieve the right tax balance for New [...]
For the past twenty years, the federal government has made prudent fiscal decisions. But now the Trudeau government’s first budget will overspend by 30-billion dollars, and add 118-billion to Canada’s debt over the next six years. The campaign promise to limit the deficit to 10-billion and balance the budget in four years has [...]
In a story by the Telegraph-Journal's John Chilibeck, John Williamson argues against further subsidies to higher education. On the issue, Williamson doubts that governments "are prepared to cut in one area to hand more money to universities, particularly when the biggest beneficiaries of a university education are the students themselves." FREDERICTON • New Brunswick’s dismal [...]
Customs today reports on AIMS' study, "I'll Take New England Any Day!", authored by Mark Milke. The study compares tax regimes in Atlantic Canada with those in New England, our region's closest geographic competitor, with an eye to improving the Atlantic business environment.. You can read the full study here. A new report is calling [...]
In the Cape Cod Times, AIMS President Marco Navarro-Génie is quoted in a story about the advantages of the Atlantic time zone. He argues that "In the age of high-volume trading and high-fiber super speeds, milliseconds can mean money in transactions. This is actually a little bit of an advantage." PROVIDENCE, R.I. — As most [...]