The AIMS on Campus Student Fellowship is the newest, boldest student program designed to connect, inform and empower students who wish to learn more about liberty and the free market, and share that knowledge on campus. We uniquely bridge academia and awareness to provide the ultimate student experience. The AIMS on Campus project is made possible through [...]
AIMS Research Fellow Joseph Quesnel is a research fellow with the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS). A Northern Ontarian by background, Joseph now lives in Antigonish in eastern Nova Scotia with his wife Melanie. Joseph is also Quebec Metis by heritage and interested in Indigenous issues, in particular effective governance and economic development. He [...]
Senior Fellow in Electricity Policy Chairman of the Weil Consulting Group and President of Standard Energy Company, Augusta, Maine. Gordon Weil graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine (A.B.), the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium (Diploma) and Columbia University, New York (Ph.D. in Public Law and Government). He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He [...]
AIMS Senior Fellow Dr. Robert W. Murray is the Vice-President, Research at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He is also a blogger for e-International Relations and a Columnist for [...]
Fellow in Common Sense Education Michael Zwaagstra is a public high school teacher, education researcher, and author. He has extensive teaching experience at a variety of grade levels and currently teaches high school social studies in Manitoba. He received his B.Ed., P.B.C.E., and M.Ed. degrees from the University of Manitoba where he won several academic [...]
Brian Lee Crowley is past President and Senior Fellow of AIMS. In the nearly 15 years since its founding, AIMS has brought a distinctive and influential Eastern Canadian voice to regional and national debates over public policy in areas such as transfer payments, social policy, fiscal and tax policy, health care, education performance and accountability, [...]
AIMS Fellow in Health Care Economics Dr. Ferguson is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at University of Guelph. Dr. Ferguson earned a BA at Mount Allison University, an MA at the University of Guelph, and a PhD from Australian National University. Has worked at Health Canada, taught at McMaster University, been [...]
AIMS Fellow in Public Education Reform Considered one of the top educators in North America, AIMS Fellow in Public Education Reform Angus McBeath is making a difference in public education. As superintendent of the public schools in Edmonton, Mr. McBeath (pronounced McBeth) lead the ongoing effort to improve student achievement in that city’s public school [...]
Now that President Obama has opened relations with Cuba, and plans to visit this month, Canadians are saying, “Let’s get down there before Americans ruin the place.” Too late: the ruin began with the 1959 revolution. Many Canadians’ understanding of modern Cuba come from scenes in Godfather II where the mafia, and a military dictatorship [...]
From the Sackville Tribune-Post: The report examines the overall regulatory framework, planned infrastructure projects, and emerging natural gas opportunities and technologies. Author Andrew Pickford contends in Gas Opportunities for Atlantic Canada that restrictions on the expansion of natural gas in Atlantic Canada could make electricity more expensive, less clean, and result in people outside the [...]