A meeting of Eastern Premiers and New England Governors shows the Atlantica concept is making its way to public policy. The 2008 annual meeting of these top politicial leaders included talk of uniformity across borders, whether provincial or state, for such issues as transportation, regulation and energy.
In this story from the Moncton Times & Transcript, Director of Research Ian Munro notes that the general idea of taxing a broad measure of consumption, rather than income, is a good one. However, more narrowly focused carbon tax proposals still leave a lot of questions unanswered."
Pressure from AIMS finally has the Nova Scotia Department of Education releasing school by school student achievement data. AIMS Executive Vice President Charles Cirtwill explains that it's not just the release of data that is important, but the use of that information to improve the education syste school by school that matters.
Talk of harmonizing truck regulations dominated a meeting of New England governors and eastern Premiers. Harmonization has been a topic of several papers and Commentaries on Atlantica.
In this op/ed that appeared in The Toronto Star, David MacKinnon, AIMS senior fellowin fairness in Confederation, the Ontario Perspective, provides Ontario residents with three questions they should ask during this federal election.
This article in the Christian Science Monitor explains that the US Northeast will obtain oil, gas, and nuclear energy from projects costing $16 billionin the New Brunswick region. However, it also talks about the fear some residents have that the new initiatives will lead to pollution and negative health effects.
A talk by AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley to the Maine Citizens' Trade Committee of the State Legislature is the basis of this feature in the New Brunswick Business Journal. It uses the example of 19th century Chicago to show how economic development can make N.B. prosperous.
In this Commentary requested by the New Brunswick Business Journal, AIMS Executive Vice President Charles Cirtwill points out that in order to succeed this region needs to start working for each other, rather than against each other.
In this op/ed in The National Post, AIMS Executive Vice President Charles Cirtwill explains why choice works in public education. He says residents of Ontario should be fighting to increase choice in their province, not encouraging a monopoly.
Finally, the Halifax Regional School Board is going to do what AIMS has said is in the best interest of public education - release school by school results. In this article in the Chronicle-Herald, AIMS Executive Vice President, Charles Cirtwill, speaks about the Nova Scotia Teachers Union's objection to publishing the results from the standardized tests.