Time for a Reality Check:
In this Guest Commentary, Don Mills takes a look at what needs to be done to help Nova Scotia help itself.
On energy, capitalize on geography, says official
AIMS' Commentary on the need to reform regulations covering the interprovincial and international transmission of electricity made the front page of the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal.
Freeing the Flow:
Halifax – It’s time for Canada to reform the regulation of its electric industry. In a Commentary, released today by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (www.AIMS.ca), author Gordon Weil reviews the options to improve regulations governing Canada’s electrical industry. He says while it is not necessary to go as far as a single national regulator, there does need to [...]
Freeing the Flow:
This Commentary reviews the options for improving electric industry regulation in Canada.
Do small businesses have a fighting chance against today’s challenges?
In this cover sotry in the Nova Scotia Business Journal, AIMS President & CEO Charles Cirtwill explains Nova Scotia has to do more to make life easier for small business. He points out taxes are too high in the province and the red tape too thick.
‘The numbers are pretty bad’
AIMS President & CEO Charles Cirtwill suggests one way that New Brunswick can boost its employment figures is to make the province attractive for business. He says government can't spend its way to prosperity.