Radio: Healthcare Funding Crunch
Atlantic Canada is in a financial squeeze. With our ageing population, healthcare costs are rising. But these circumstances aren't created by neglect from the federal government, as Ottawa’s health transfers to our region are at record highs. Rather, our poor economic policies – like high taxes and banning onshore shale gas development – are driving business and employment [...]
Bring the kids home to save healthcare
In the Telegraph-Journal, AIMS Vice President of Research John Williamson argues that the fault for Atlantic Canada’s financial squeeze in healthcare lies more with our economic policies than with Ottawa’s funding formulas. When a young worker moves West, his federal health subsidy goes with him, rather than staying here. Read the full article on the Telegraph-Journal website. Ottawa’s healthcare funding [...]
Atlantic Provinces should join Western free trade deal
In Halifax's Chronicle Herald, AIMS President & CEO Marco Navarro-Génie argues that each of the four Atlantic Provinces should seek entry into the New West Partnership Trade Agreement, creating "a virtual agreement between Atlantic Provinces, adding new markets and a common trade policy with three dynamic co-members of the federation." Read the full piece on the Chronicle Herald website. The [...]
Media Release: Sinclair Davidson Speaking Event – Cigarette Plain Packaging
Sinclair Davidson Halifax Speaking Event Sponsored by AIMS, Professor Sinclair Davidson will visit Halifax at noon on Monday, May 30, to speak on the impact of plain packaging in Australia and lessons that could be learned for other jurisdictions, including Canada. This will be followed by a question and answer session. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP by noon Friday to: [email protected] Event details: Monday, May [...]
Presentation to Senate Committee on Trade
On May 11, 2016, AIMS President Marco Navarro-Génie testified before the Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce, in a hearing about internal trade within Canada. In his statement, he recommended that the federal government encourage open borders, and that the Atlantic Province join the New West Partnership Trade Agreement. “It is proposed that they shall united…with the purposes of [...]
Radio: The Class Size Myth
Elected officials mean well when they lobby to reduce class sizes. But the evidence doesn't support their efforts. Education research shows that having fewer students in a class has little influence on learning. A far more important metric is the quality of the instruction. Classrooms of 30 children with a great teacher are far better than classes of [...]