The AIMS 3rd Annual Report Card on Atlantic Canadian High Schools has been released and the grades aren’t much to brag about. Half of the 265 high schools assessed scored a C or C+ and less than 5% ranked an A or A+ grade. The news is better in Newfoundland & Labrador where 73% of [...]
Rick Audas is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Administration at the University of New Brunswick. His areas of expertise include Labour and Regional Economics, with a particular emphasis on Human Capital accumulation among young people. He has published articles in Regional Studies, The Journal of Economics and Business, Managerial and Decision Economics and [...]
Charles Cirtwill (BA, LLB, MPA - Dalhousie University) is a former President and CEO of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies. His published works focus on government structure and organization, business-government relations, inter-governmental relations, performance measurement and accountability. He has spoken across Canada and the United States on the role of think tanks in society, the appropriate [...]
Brett J. Skinner is Manager of Pharmaceutical and Health Policy Research for The Fraser Institute. He is a PhD candidate in Public Policy and Political Science specializing in health policy at the University of Western Ontario (London) where he lectures in both the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Department of Political Science. He earned [...]
Fellow in Health Care Policy David Zitner, a family doctor, is Director of Medical Informatics at Dalhousie Medical School. He has been a member of the Physician Advisory Committee to the Canadian Institute for Health Information and was on the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Deputy Ministers of Health working group which produced "When Less is Better: Using Canada's [...]
Mr. McIver brings a wealth of experience in economic policy analysis. Mr. McIver is well known as the former Chief Economist at Sun Life of Canada. For the past three years he has been the Director of Business Research for the Conference Board of Canada, guiding the research programs into developments in the financial sector. [...]
Patrick Luciani is AIMS Senior Fellow in Urban Policy. Mr. Luciani has an extensive background in public policy. He currently acts as Senior Advisor to the Canadian Statistical Assessment Services (CANSTATS), a media watch organization that comments on how the media covers public policy issues. He sits also on the boards of The Dominion Institute [...]
Dr. David Gratzer is a physician, the author of Code Blue: Reviving Canada’s Health Care System. 1999. Toronto: ECW Press, and the editor of Better Medicine: Reforming Canadian Health Care. 2002. Toronto: ECW Press. Dr. Gratzer speaks frequently on health reform, writes a monthly column for the National Post and is a contributor to the [...]
Carl Irvine is a Toronto-based economist. He has a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Toronto. He has written on health care issues such as the medically uninsured in the United States, and market-based health reform abroad. He has also written on market-based environmental reform. Medicare and User Fees: Unsafe at any Price?
Adjunct Professor, Economics, University of Prince Edward Island and Carleton University Born in 1931 in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Robin Neill holds a B.A. and M.A. in Political Economy from the University of Toronto and a PhD. in Economics from Duke. His academic appointments include: University of Saskatchewan, 1960-69, University of Prince Edward Island, 1970-72, [...]