Hungry for new ideas
AIMS President Navarro-Génie remarks that the realisation that tired old ways aren’t working is making people hungry for new ideas and solutions.
Media Release: Legislated wage patterns a step in the right direction: AIMS
Halifax – The Nova Scotia government’s decision to legislate wage patterns in the public sector is the kind of fiscally responsible decision needed to address the province’s financial reality, says the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS). While it is to some extent understandable that several trade unions in Nova Scotia find the government’s decision [...]
Ontario to lose equalization payments as Alberta’s economic fortunes fall
Karen Howlett and Jane Taber
Electoral Reforms represent a paradox for Atlantic Canada
Morgan Beatty and Marco Navarro-Genie analyse the results of the last federal election through the looking glass of electoral reform to show how Atlantic Canada’s variety of representation could improve but at the expense of the region’s political influence.
Are we fighting climate change or capitalism?
AIMS Senior Fellow Robert Roach examines the paradoxical implications of environmentalists who seek the destruction of the market economy, believing that "capitalism is the root cause of environmental problems and social injustices.”
Radio: Electricity Rates in NS
Market prices for coal, oil and natural gas have fallen nearly 50% in the last two years, prompting a decline in electricity rates across North America, except in Nova Scotia where electricity rates continue to rise and we continue to pay among the highest rates on the continent. Allowing electricity rates in [...]
Radio: The Cost Disease
Across Atlantic Canada education costs are on the rise. Between 1999 and 2010, per student education costs increased by more than 70% in all four Atlantic provinces. One reason for this phenomenon is that even as school enrollment has been declining over the past 15 years, the number of educators in our school [...]
Radio: National Childcare
Quebec’s $7/day rate structure for childcare is often touted as a model for Canada because it supposedly makes childcare affordable for Quebecers. In reality, it masks the costs with subsidy, and defers the cost onto others. Childcare operators can survive on $7/day, because they receive as much as five times that amount in [...]
Radio: Fixing Undergraduate Education
Canadian universities should publish data that enable the public to evaluate institutional outcomes performance effectively. Our universities may be failing undergraduate students all across the country. At research oriented universities, between 20 % and 30% of first year students fail to proceed to second year, and fewer than 60% graduate within 6 years. [...]