Beyond Trade: Taking Canada and America to the Next Level
The need to adapt our thinking on international trade to reflect the reality of the 21st century is examined in this Commentary.
A Pill Too Hard to Swallow: The US can’t solve its prescription drug woes at the cost of Europe or Canada
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley highlights the problems of drug re-importation schemes ... and Europe's hypocrisy in condemning American plans to do so.
Radical chic meets monopoly power
AIMS looks at the public sector trade union movement in Canada, and points out a change is going to have to come.
If many hands make light work, get ready for some very heavy lifting
AIMS provides insight to federal deputy ministers on Canada's pending labour shortage.
A Strategy for Unlocking the Halifax Gateway
In this Commentary, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley explains the next steps for Atlantica. In the keynote speech to the Halifax Shipping Association, Crowley says if we fail to make Atlantica work, the region will be left behind.
Atlantica: Are we mature enough to open our window on the world?
This Commentary is based on remarks made by AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley to the Reaching Atlantica conference in June 2006. It takes the next steps in the Atlantica concept and explains what needs to be done to take advantage of the opportunities.
Following the Money Trail II
Setting the record straight, again. Five years after the first Money Trail, AIMS examines where Atlantic Canada sits in the federal subsidy rankings, and it isn't last.
Nyerere vs Flores: Which vision for King’s County?
When people are free to buy what they please, you have to give them what they want, so explains AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley in this Commentary based on remarks he delivered to an economic summit in the Annapolis Valley region of Nova Scotia. He says the principle is relevant to everything we do in Atlantic Canada, but nowhere is it more important than in agriculture.
Newfoundland: Open Season on Business?
Is Newfoundland really open for business? AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley triggered animated debate during the final panel at the 2006 NOIA conference in St. John's with his remarks titled "Newfoundland: Open Season on Business".
Making Atlantica Work
It is not an Atlantic Gateway strategy that will make a difference to Atlantic Canada, but Ottawa’s embrace of the international northeast economic region known as Atlantica. This commentary provides the steps that need to be taken to "Make Atlantica Work".