Marco Navarro-Génie au Téléjournal Acadie
La Production des permis de conduire en Atlantique sera centralisée - Le Téléjournal Acadie 2 Juin 2017: Une nouvelle procédure sera mise en place en ce qui a trait à la création de permis de conduire, et ce dans les quatre provinces de l'Atlantique. Sécurité et cohérence seront mises de l'avant.
Jackson Doughart on Sheldon MacLeod Show
On June 1, 2017, AIMS Research Coordinator, Jackson Doughart, joined the Sheldon MacLeod Show on News 95.7 FM to discuss his latest study with David Murell, Household Savings in Atlantic Canada, 1981-2015. >> Read article on CBC.ca/PEI >> Read the study: Household Savings in Atlantic Canada, 1981-2015
Radio: Canadian Free Trade Agreement
Federal and provincial governments have unveiled the Canadian Free Trade Agreement, designed to lower internal trading barriers and add $25 billion per year to the national economy. Unfortunately, the new arrangement wildly misses the mark. While the deal theoretically improves trade by widening the scope of free exchange, the hundreds of exemptions are unnecessary and complicating. Most of [...]
Jackson Doughart: P.E.I. residents spend rather than save
A study by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies has found people in Atlantic Canada save less money than the rest of Canada, especially in Prince Edward Island. Jackson Doughart, a research coordinator says the saving rates in the four provinces is considerably lower than in other provinces and territories. He said the study from 1981 until 2015, showed savings were rising in Canada [...]
Aboriginal entrepreneurship profile: Donald Hanson
Atlantic Business Magazine, 25 May 2017 By Joseph Quesnel (AIMS Research Associate) The most satisfying part of Indigenous entrepreneur Donald Hanson’s job has been his fortune to apply entrepreneurial skills towards improving Indigenous communities across Canada. After working for more than a decade in the federal civil service and private initiatives, Hanson, 41, created a band management software—called Lucid—that can [...]
Only successful, market economies can prioritize the environment
By PATRICK LUCIANI (AIMS Senior Fellow) Financial Post, 25 May 2017 As Pope Francis and Donald Trump finished up their rather brief, and apparently uncomfortable meeting on Wednesday, the Holy Father slipped the president a copy of his 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si.” That happens to be Francis' critique of capitalism and the environment and, since Trump is an unrepentant capitalist, [...]