Checking the Math on Childcare
In his report, Checking the Math on Childcare, commissioned by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), Ian Munro cautions Canadians about promises for a federal childcare program.
Provincially-owned Golf Courses Continue to Bleed Red Ink on PEI
Ian Munro, an independent economic and public policy analyst and AIMS author, discusses the results of his most recent study looking into PEI's golf tourism strategy: "After the turn of the millennium, the golf boom crashed, tourism traffic dropped and the provincially owned courses began to bleed red ink."
Short of the Green: Golf as an Economic Development Tool on Prince Edward Island
Ian Munro, an independent public policy analyst born on Prince Edward Island (PEI), argues in this paper that PEI's efforts to bolster tourism on the Island using the golf industry have largely failed. He insists that the government made “tactical errors” and that it “relied on simplistic projections, while failing to consider risks and alternative scenarios.”
Radio Free Canada
The time has come to wind down Canadian content requirements and foreign ownership restrictions in the communications sector.
Crisis? What Crisis?
This paper, Crisis? What Crisis?, written by Ian Munro, examines the widely held view that there is a shortage of child care spaces in Nova Scotia. Munro provides a basic analysis of the supply-demand balance for child care spaces in Nova Scotia.
Signal Strength:
The changes that need to be made for the wireless industry to better serve Canadians.
See Dick Grow Old, See Jane Retire:
This paper examines the choices for child care and concludes Government funding for vulnerable children is a good investment of taxpayers dollars.
The End of that 70’s Show
Communications consultant and former AIMS research director Ian Munro explores the antiquated rules that govern Canada's communications sector. He calls for a complete overhaul and makes strong recommendations on how to bring the regulatory regime into the 21st century.
Hands Off!
From iPhones to WiFi, the CRTC is looking to hold your hand along the new media cyber-road. This Commentary explains why the Commission needs to let go.
Chicken Little Eats Crow
This paper suggests that Canadian governments build on the existing auction model for wireless communications licences. Among the recommendations, the paper concludes governments should embrace auctions as the means of allocating other assets, such as timber rights, drilling rights, and broadcasting licences.