New Brunswick Can Help Students With Learning Disabilities, Says Report
A new report calls on New Brunswick to adapt a Nova Scotian program that helps students with learning disabilities or certain behavioural disorders attend school at designated private facilities. Paul Bennett, director of Schoolhouse Consulting, published a new study on Wednesday with the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS). The study, "Extending the Education Lifeline: The benefits of adopting Nova Scotia's Tuition Support Program (TSP)," suggests New Brunswick should adapt this program, which helps families whose children attend specialized learning school when they can't be served at their local public school.
Extending the Educational Lifeline
AIMS author Dr. Paul Bennett discusses adopting the Nova Scotia Tuition Support Program (TSP) throughout Atlantic Canada and provides a New Brunswick example of Riverbend Community School in Moncton. Bennett examines how the TSP has been implemented since 2004, and provides eight recommendations for Atlantic Canada.
MEDIA RELEASE: Righting the Ship In Atlantic Canada: Students Urged To Share Ideas In Essay Competition
Halifax, NS – Undergraduate and graduate students across Canada who are 18 years of age or older are being encouraged to help “Right the ship” in Atlantic Canada by entering the AIMS/on/Campus essay competition. The AIMS/on/Campus essay competition is part of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) campus outreach program. AIMS is a distinctive Atlantic Canadian voice on public [...]
NDP Victory in Alberta Is not a Sign of an Orange Wave in the Next Federal Election
Radio Interview with Marco Navarro-Genie, President of AIMS (Atlantic Institute for Market Studies) suggests that the left turn of Albertans had already begun for some time.
Helping Yourself By Helping Your Doctor
Every day, Canadian patients benefit from remarkable cures of diseases that were previously fatal. We expect a lot from health care, and so we should, because health care takes about half of all government program spending. Can patients influence care in ways that improve quality, without increasing costs? After all, patients are the people most affected by the results of care, and their participation is free of financial cost. The good news is that everyone is able to participate to improve their own care and help avoid health care mistakes without any additional cost to government. Patients may protect themselves from missed diagnoses by simply asking the doctor “have you considered all of the possible causes for my problem.”
NSGEU Holds Rally At Canso Causeway To Protest Budget Cuts
The flag waving and chants of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union protest were part of the latest fall out from the April 9 provincial budget. On Monday, students occupied Nova Scotia Finance Minister Diane Whalen’s constituency office to protest the removal, for one year, of the cap limiting increases universities can make to tuition. On Wednesday, film professionals and their supporters protested outside the legislature over cuts to a tax credit that sees the government refund between 50 and 65 per cent of wages paid in their industry “Bringing the province’s public sector to the Canadian average should be one of the important considerations among the several strategies the province of Nova Scotia could pursue to reduce spending,” said AIMS president Marco Navarro-Genie in a press release the day before Whalen’s April 9 budget that will eliminate 320 full time civil service positions.