The Comeau Ruling is In
AIMS - Press Release View this email in your browser Media Release Supreme Court of Canada Rules in Favour of Restriction, Not Rights Halifax - 19 April 2018: The Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling today to uphold protectionist restrictions on interprovincial trade is a missed opportunity to advance the Canadian economy by creating greater economic freedom as intended by our founding fathers. Recall [...]
Substitute Teachers in Atlantic Canada: Michael Zwaagstra on News 95.7
On April 12th, 2018, AIMS author Michael Zwaagstra joined the Sheldon MacLeod Show on News 95.7 to discuss the substitute teacher shortage in Nova Scotia and possible solutions.
Final Moments of the Comeau Case
On Monday, April 16th 2018, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies was mentioned in a release issued by the MEI on the CISION newswire. The article is an update on the Comeau Case (on Thursday, April 19th the Supreme Court will hand down a decision regarding interprovincial trade barriers in Canada) and mentions the collaboration between AIMS, the Montreal Economic [...]
Official assurances on provincial budget are doubtful
By ED HOLLETT (AIMS Senior Research Fellow) The provincial government continues to predict that its annual budget will return to surplus by 2022. There are reasons to doubt this forecast let alone avoid financial problems in the future. First, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador faces the same strategic financial problems it has faced for most of the past decade. It [...]
Divorcing Tim Hortons
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (AIMS Senior Fellow) Montreal Times, 16 April 2018 Leger and National released its annual report ranking Canada’s most admired companies. While some results were indeed surprising, others were not. Both Google and (Loblaw’s) Shoppers Drug Mart ended up at the top of their rankings as most respected companies, regardless of where the company resides. Google has been [...]
Market principles offer solutions on teacher shortage
By MICHAEL ZWAAGSTRA (AIMS Research Fellow) The Chronicle Herald, 19 April 2018 Troy Media, 12 April 2018 Nova Scotia doesn’t have enough substitute teachers right now. In fact, the shortage is so severe that school boards are hiring people without teacher’s certificates to fill some substitute positions. In many cases, regular teachers are being forced to use their prep time [...]