A Free “Market” of Locations
Originally published in the National Post. This is exciting: the column I wrote earlier this week on the folly of forcing immigrants to settle and stay in Atlantic Canada generated a headline with my name in it. Granted, the headline was, “Dear Marni Soupcoff: go soak your head.” But still. You don’t get your full name in a headline every [...]
The Liberal Dilemma of Electoral Reform
Janet Ajzenstat is the greatest scholar of our generation on Confederation and on the moral basis of Canadian parliamentary democracy. In Discovering Confederation and other writings, she points out how the Fathers of Confederation were deeply divided over the proper manner to ratify the Quebec Accords that were the basis of confederation and the British North American Act of 1867 [...]
Addressing Atlantic Canada’s Spending Problem
AIMS president Marco Navarro-Genie discusses Atlantic Canada's spending problem on The Rick Howe show. Listen to the interview here: Click here to visit SpendingProblem.ca!
There’s a reason people leave the Atlantic Provinces, Mr. McKenna
This originally appeared in the National Post. Former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna has an idea for revitalizing Atlantic Canada: make new immigrants live there. According to the Canadian Press, Mr. McKenna is suggesting the federal government create a program requiring newcomers to the country to spend three to five years in one or more of the Atlantic provinces before [...]
Healthcare experiment gets bad reviews
The Nova Scotia Department of Health is intent on enrolling uninformed Nova Scotians in an ill-conceived health-care experiment — one that will reduce patient and physician choice and reduce access to family physicians. No one seems to have reported on the scientific merits of the experiment, bothered to ask people if they want to enroll, sought ethics approval or provided [...]
Another group ranking high schools
AIMS written up for comprehensive High School Report Card, which rates the performance of secondary schools.