Why someone, anyone, should own the fish??
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Throughout Atlantic Canada, cities and towns are all facing an increasingly intractable problem: What do we do with our garbage? The question is both understandable and necessary. Unfortunately, the sensible answers are not being heard. Instead, environmental zealots are saddling us with increasingly farfetched schemes for waste diversion and recycling. These schemes are costly and frequently of dubious environmental value. They do, however, create a wonderful industry for lobbyists, lawyers, "community activists" and others who make sensationalized environmental claims and then stampede governments into foolish policies. To find out the better ways available to deal with our solid waste challenges, click here.
Atlantic Canada certainly has got people's attention up in Ottawa following the federal election. There is no doubt a burning desire there to "do something" following the Liberals' rout in the region. This should make us all a little nervous.
Au deuxième congrès annuel de AIMS, on étudiera des idées innovatrices qui pourraient aider à résoudre les problèmes que connaît le système d'education au Canada atlantique.
AIMS' second annual conference
If governments can set and meet targets for reducing the deficit, why not do the same for unemployment?
Halifax, NS, 12 May 1997 -- The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) has been recognized with a distinguished international prize for the release of its first book Looking the Gift Horse in the Mouth: The Impact of Federal Transfers on Atlantic Canada by the Institute's Senior Policy Analyst, Fred McMahon. A jury of some of the [...]
Don Cayo questions how statistics are used to identify child poverty in Canada. Cayo says people can disagree about whether the degree of income inequality we have in Canada is good or bad. What we should be able to agree on is that income inequality does not equal poverty.
Looking the Gift Horse in the Mouth: The Impact of Federal Transfers on Atlantic Canada