How to Resolve Health Care Controversies
By DAVID ZITNER (AIMS Senior Fellow) Ordinary citizens are stuck without the information necessary to make personal and political choices about health care. About half of government program spending is on health care. Yet, no one knows if citizens are getting value for money or if the current approach creates more harm than good. The health authority can tell you it [...]
Alex Whalen on the Sheldon MacLeod Show: AIMS Platform for NS
On May 19, 2017, AIMS Operations Manager Alex Whalen joined the Sheldon MacLeod Show on News 95.7 FM to discuss his latest paper, AIMS Platform for Nova Scotia.
Radio: AIMS Platform for Nova Scotia
During the provincial election campaign, political parties in Nova Scotia presented their policy platforms, which detailed a governing agenda for the next four years. For the first time, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies has released its own document, listing non-partisan policy proposals for the province's next government. Gleaned from interviews with dozens of the province's leading [...]
AIMS Platform: entrepreneurship critical to NS economic growth
HALIFAX, NS – Today, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) released its Platform for Nova Scotia. This document outlines a series of implementable policy proposals for the province’s next government. The recommendations cover all of AIMS’s research areas, including energy, immigration, education, healthcare, and finance. This Spring, the Institute surveyed dozens of leading minds in Nova Scotia about the [...]
The Lost Food Generation
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (Senior Fellow) Most generations shaped their own food destiny, while Gen Xers just took what was available to them, without discriminating. Along the way, they became the lost food generation. Generation Xers don’t cook. They simply can’t cook because they never acquired the skills to do so. Most Gen Xers (born between 1965 and 1976) grew up in [...]
Platform for Nova Scotia
This Spring, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) surveyed dozens of leading minds in Nova Scotia about the province’s future. Respondents discussed their concerns about Nova Scotia, including low growth, decaying public institutions, and demographic stagnation. To reverse decline, this group proposed many original and helpful insights for public policy reform. Among the thought leaders approached for the [...]