The latest study vindicating fat proves we should be wary of fat studies
By PATRICK LUCIANI (AIMS Senior Fellow) Financial Post, 12 September 2017 McMaster University’s Population Health Research Institute just released a major study comparing the benefits of various diets around the world. After surveying 135,000 people over seven years in 18 countries, the study concluded that we should be eating more fats, more fruits and vegetables and fewer sugary carbohydrates. According [...]
Employment Insurance: Time for a Transformation
By JUSTIN HATHERLY (AIMS Author) While Canadians are justifiably proud of the social programs their country offers, there are programs that are poorly designed, riddled with perverse incentives that exacerbate the problem they intend to correct. Employment Insurance (EI) is one such problem. EI does provide transient income supporter to workers who have lost their jobs without fault, but in [...]
So far, not good
By John Risley (AIMS Chairman of the Board) Atlantic Business Magazine, 05 September 2018 The Trump administration is now some six months old and I could not be more disappointed in what it has accomplished—or rather, failed to accomplish. Encouraged by the choice of people like Mattis, Tillerson, Cohn, Mnuchin, Ross, DeVos and others, I was optimistic that real progress [...]
CBC New Brunswick reports on AIMS EI Study
On September 8th, 2017, CBC New Brunswick reported on the alternative system of Employment Insurance proposed in the 2017 AIMS study "From Tax to Security: an alternative to Employment Insurance" to better help Atlantic Canadians with their savings. Read the full report here
Marco Navarro-Génie in the Halifax Examiner
On September 8th, 2017, President and CEO Marco Navarro-Génie appeared in the Halifax Examiner. Navarro-Génie commented on Bill 148 and his expectations of Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil. Read the full article here
From Tax to Security: an Alternative to Employment Insurance
From tax to security: an alternative to Employment Insurance – by Justin Hatherly proposes an alternative to the current employment insurance system that would discourage dependence on seasonal work, promote productivity and labour mobility, and end a practice that has damaged Atlantic Canada. Hatherly says that the Chilean system gives people a greater incentive to find longer-term stable jobs since [...]