In for the long haul: Alberta’s 50 year struggle to create a world-class Oil and Gas Industry
The Hon. Peter Lougheed speech to AIMS 5th Anniversary Banquet
The Hon. Peter Lougheed speech to AIMS 5th Anniversary Banquet
Talks between Inco and the government of Newfoundland and Labrador on the development of the rich Voisey's Bay mineral deposit collapsed recently, and may now be postponed indefinitely. AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley analyses the role played in this drama by Canada's equalization system in his column in The Globe and Mail.
Une nouvelle publication de AIMS révèle aux Canadiens les secrets d’économies qui sont passées du rang de retardataires au rang de stars internationales.
New AIMS book reveals to Canadians the secrets of economies that went from perennial laggard status to international economic stars.
Economic growth is not a mysterious force that strikes unpredictably or whose absence is inexplicable, according to Fred McMahon, Road to Growth. McMahon's book shows that successful economies maintain moderate costs, particularly labour costs and taxes. That leaves room for healthy profits, which in turn attract and fund further investment.
The Nova Scotia Government's program review has attracted a great deal of criticism, much of it attacking the premise on which program review is based. In The Sunday Herald, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley reviews the case for program review and concludes that the arguments for it remain compelling. Not only do the province’s finances need to be put on a sustainable course, but ensuring that Nova Scotians get good value for public spending is indispensable for future prosperity.
David Zitner and Brian Lee Crowley analyse some recent proposals to protect the privacy of individual medical records, and find that they would greatly increase the cost and reduce the efficacy of medical research while conferring little benefit in terms of additional privacy. They recommend a less draconian solution, one consistent with the community's need to maximise its knowledge about its own health and the effectiveness of various medical procedures. Click here to read "Don't Close the Shutters", originally published in The Medical Post on 11 January 2000.
Our myopic fear of Americanizing our health care system blinds us to the many constructive reforms to publicly-financed health care that Europeans have introduced in recent years in response to the same sort of challenges our home grown medicare faces. Publication: CHH December 26, 1999; SJT, January 9, 2000. By Nancy Faraday-Smith
Professor Peter Aucoin, one of this country's most distinguished scholars on public administration, has written a special piece exclusively for AIMS on the necessity of strengthening the civil service if Nova Scotia is to improve the quality of public policy and governance in the province. Professor Aucoin's analysis, which draws on innovative civil service reforms in other countries as well as elsewhere in Canada, should be mandatory reading for all those involved in the public sector restructuring that balancing the provincial budget will require.