Expert to Speak on Charter Schools (NS)
John McCarthy visits Pictou
The tragedy of Africville
Fred McMahon examines the expropriation of community property in Africville and how Canada Canada's charter of Rights and Freedoms was explicitly designed to exclude property rights.
Keystone Kops
Fred McMahon on several example of how police may have overstepped their authority suppressing legitimate freedom of expression.
Time to close Devco
The nationalized Cape Breton coal mines, a Trudeau-era relic, seem more and more like a Russian relic from the Soviet era. They are dirty, big, out-moded and there's not enough money left in the till to make next month's payroll, despite billions in subsidies. Fred McMahon in the National Post, 1998
Canadian Potage
AIMS president Don Cayo asks, "Has Confederation been worth it for Newfoundland ? It's been 50 years since the island province made its first moves toward leaving Britain and federating with another country. Time to look at the balance sheet."
Population Change in Atlantic Canada
MEDIA ADVISORY Demographically challenged:
Close Cape Breton’s coal industry
It's time to let Cape Breton's coal industry die a natural death. The cost of keeping it alive is just too immense in wasted treasure, pollution, lost jobs, and squandered economic opportunity throughout Nova Scotia. Fred McMahon-1998
Searching for New Ways
Frank McKenna Presents a Vision for Atlantic Canada's Future
Getting It Right:
We need open and forthright debate on Atlantic Canada's Economic Future