A Tiny Step in the Right Direction
AIMS President Marco Navarro-Génie joined Sheldon MacLeod on July 24th, 2018, to discuss carbon taxes and booze across the borders after the premiers meeting in Saint Andrews.
Federal carbon tax seems destined to fail
By MARCO NAVARRO-GÉNIE (AIMS President and CEO) Troy Media, 20 July 2018 Chronicle Herald, 20 July 2018 The Telegram, 24 July 2018 Business In Vancouver, 02 August 2018 If there ever was a federal carbon tax consensus in Canada, it’s now dissolving. Rumours of its death have been floating for some time, but the recent [...]
A Tiny Step in the Right Direction
AIMS - Media Release View this email in your browser A Tiny Step in the Right Direction For Immediate Release (Halifax): 23 July 2018 The decision by some of Canada’s premiers to ease restrictions on interprovincial beer and alcohol sales is a step in the right direction, according to the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS). “This [...]
Tim Hortons Rolls up the Rim East
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (AIMS Senior Fellow) The Filipino Post, 17 July 2018 Net News Ledger, 15 July 2018 Tim Hortons is going where the growth is: east to China. The Canadian institution announced it will expand its portfolio of 4,700 restaurants by signing a joint venture partnership with a Chinese-based equity firm. Tim Hortons currently [...]
The rise of the conscious carnivore
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (AIMS Senior Fellow) This time of year, most Canadians are enjoying summer with picnics and barbecues. Meat often plays a central role when choosing the menu for gatherings among family and friends. But it seems eating meat is becoming increasingly controversial, as is selling it. In foie gras-friendly France, as an example, [...]
Canada: A country worth fighting for
By JOHN RISLEY (AIMS Chair of Board) Atlantic Business Magazine, 04 July 2018 IN OUR ENTHUSIASM to continue to make Canada distinct, uniquely caring, openminded, polite and any other adjective you might like to use to describe not so much what we have been but what we seemingly want to aspire to become… we run [...]
“Time to lift Nova Scotia’s uranium ban”: AIMS President quoted in Chronicle Herald
AIMS President and CEO Marco Navarro-Génie commented in support of lifting Nova Scotia's ban on the development of its uranium resources. He also recommended scrutinizing "the containing mindset that leads us to ban the economic development of a particular resource", arguing that “we should be embracing every possibility to develop and grow the provincial economy and make [...]
AIMS research on teacher accountability referenced in Telegraph-Journal commentary
A commentary in the Telegraph-Journal referenced AIMS research on teacher accountability. Read the article here Read the AIMS research on teacher accountability here
The Trouble with Edibles
By Sylvain Charlebois (AIMS Senior Fellow) Net News Ledger, 09 July 2018 Sudbury Star, 12 July 2018 The Guardian, 13 July 2018 On Oct. 17, smoking cannabis will become legal in Canada. As for cannabis edibles, they will take a bit longer: Cannabis-infused food products will be legal in a little less than a year’s [...]
Equalization Hurts Every Canadian
By MARCO NAVARRO-GENIE (AIMS President), PETER HOLLE (FCPP President), and DAVID MACKINNON (AIMS and FCPP Senior Fellow) Financial Post, 11 July 2018 Amrank, 11 July 2018 The controversies that have erupted over equalization in recent days must seem tiresome to many Canadians. Our national debates on equalization have been marked by conflict, obscure technical jargon, little research on the [...]