Competition also benefits education
By Matthew Lau (AIMS Author) Troy Media, 01 November 2018 Canadians experience daily the enormous economic benefits of competition. For most consumer goods, over time, Canadians pay less and get more. Businesses compete to offer customers the best products at the lowest prices; those with offerings that consumers judge unsatisfactory eventually are forced to close and go out of business. [...]
All you can eat?
By Sylvain Charlebois (AIMS Senior Fellow) The Lakeside Leader, 19 November 2018 Within a year, single-use plastics and excess packaging have become public enemy number 1. Everyone is talking about how our lives are overrun by too much plastic. Just recently, a Greenpeace-led audit looked at waterways waste and companies involved. Much of the plastic trash cleaned up from Canadian [...]
USMCA and Cash Cows
By Sylvain Charlebois (AIMS Senior Fellow) Net News Ledger, 02 October 2018 They may not know it yet, but the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), or NAFTA 2.0, could become the watershed moment Canadian dairy farmers have been waiting for. The Trudeau government has committed to compensating the dairy sector for either lost sales, higher per-unit costs or the loss in [...]
NB Election Results: What Happened?
AIMS President Marco Navarro-Génie breaks down the recent election results in New Brunswick with Sheldon MacLeod on News 95.7, while touching on the subject of coalitions.
The Blockchain Party
By Sylvain Charlebois (AIMS Senior Fellow) Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, recently notified its leafy green suppliers that they will need to use blockchain by the end of next year. Walmart is banking on its relationship with IBM to put pressure on the entire sector to comply to what consumers want from the food industry: more transparency. Meanwhile, [...]
Read: A Little School Choice Goes a Long Way
The recent AIMS study An Untapped Potential for Educational Diversity was referred to in a piece by Fergus Hodgson for the Epoch Times, supporting the model in Eastern Canada. Read here