OF INTEREST: Canada’s Medicare Bubble
Readers in Atlantic Canada may be alarmed to learn that, when all federal transfers are excluded from the calculation, government health care spending currently consumes 87.7 percent of all “own source” revenue in Nova Scotia; 74.2 percent in New Brunswick; 65.5% in Prince Edward Island, and 60.3% in Newfoundland & Labrador. This piece asks very simply - is this sustainable?
Report ‘collects dust’ while school districts try to do more with less
Since having to face economic austerity measures, the New Brunswick government is tackling a need to continue to raise academic performance scores after poor results on studies and tests over the past decade. AIMS President and CEO Charles Cirtwill weighs in on the issues facing education in New Brunswick and compares policies and practices in the province to those of other province's in Canada.
AIMS hosts Treasury Board and Minister for FedNor Tony Clement for a Breakfast Briefing
Join us as we welcome the Treasury Board and Minister for FedNor Tony Clement for a Breakfast Briefing titled Sustaining the Recovery; An update by Minister Clement on Canada’s effort to find $4 billion in savings for taxpayers
The Beacon – 20 July 2011
AIMS’ 2nd Annual Nova Scotia Municipal Report Card is released. A proposal by AIMS President and CEO Charles Cirtwill for Prince Edward Island to uphold its confederation promises- and expand Provincial free trade with the West. Why small provinces and states like Maine need big business- and soon. AIMS Director of Research Don McIver suggests that Federal government goodwill initiatives may very well have acted in the opposite in retrospect to 1867. Perry Newman, AIMS Board member and President of Atlantica Group LLC recalls the tale of the brave Terry Fox in-lieu of his mother, Betty Fox’s passing. Based on a convocation speech delivered to Kingsview Academy in Halifax, AIMS President and CEO Charles Cirtwill offers some words of wisdom about the future of our society
Careless Intentions: Regional Consequences of National Policies
In this commentary, Don McIver, AIMS Director of Research, discusses the unintended consequences of well meaning national policies. He argues that rather than complaining about the negative consequences for the Atlantic Provinces our leaders need to recognize our unique regional reality and act within it.
Maine’s Gigantic Need for Big Business
In this commentary, Perry Newman, President of Atlantica Group LLC, outlines the economic dangers of relying on small businesses to run an economy.