Jeff Chatterton got his start in risk and crisis communications as a journalist, winning several awards for his coverage of a number of “crisis-oriented” events. He hung up his microphone in 1996 to work for the Ontario government, handling a wide array of communications challenges in the resources arena — spending time at the Ministries [...]
Brian Flemming, CM, QC, DCL is a Halifax columnist and consultant. Following his legal education in Canada, the U.K. and the Netherlands, Mr. Flemming practiced law for many years with Stewart McKelvey and its predecessor firms. For more than a decade, he lectured in public international law at Dalhousie Law School and in commercial law [...]
Tim Woodcock is a native and resident of Bangor, Maine. He attended Bowdoin College and the University of Maine School of Law. He worked for Senator William Cohen for several years, including nearly a year as an Associate Counsel on the Senate Iran-Contra Committee. He has been engaged in the private practice of law in [...]
Harry Kitchen is Professor of Economics at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Over the past 15 years, he has completed more than 75 articles, reports, studies, and books on a number of issues relating to local government expenditures, finance, and governance in Canada and abroad. In addition, he has served as a consultant or advisor [...]
Bruce Winchester is an associate at Praxicus Public Strategies, an Ottawa-based market research and public policy firm. He has commented on budgetary finances across the country, but in particular in Atlantic Canada and Ottawa. He also served as research director at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for six years, where he conducted in-depth research on budgeting, [...]
Laura Jones is the Canadian Federation of Independent Business’s vice-president for British Columbia and the Yukon. Prior to joining the CFIB, she worked for the Fraser Institute as the director of environment and regulatory studies. Jones has authored or co-authored a number of public policy studies, including Canada’s Regulatory Burden; Searching for Solutions: Experiments in [...]
Donald R. Leal is senior associate at the Political Economy Research Center in Bozeman, Montana, where he conducts research in fisheries, water, and other environmental issues. A book he co-authored received the 1992 Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award. He received his B.S. in mathematics and M.S. in Statistics from California State University at Hayward. Taking [...]
Stephen Kymlicka is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies with responsibilities for the Atlantica and Transportation portfolios. Prior to coming to AIMS, he ran an MIS and Management consulting firm in Regina for several years, growing the company to 27 employees. Over nearly 20 years, he has worked or consulted [...]
A Third Option for the Health Care Debate: Think community and courage
Ian Munro is an independent consultant based in Halifax. He has over fifteen years of experience in the communications sector, including lengthy stints with Industry Canada’s spectrum management program and with CRA International, an economics consulting firm. More recently, Ian spent two years as the Director of Research at AIMS. He holds a B.A. in [...]