David Shipley of the Telegraph Journal examines the Economic Development results from the New Brunswick Interim Municipal Report Card. AIMS Executive Vice President Charles Cirtwill indicates that this is the weakest area of municipal reporting and voters should be concerned.
The release of AIMS Interim Municipal Report Card for New Brunswick prompted numerous news reports in advance of municipal elections in that province. This front page story in the Telegraph Journal takes a look at some of the numbers.
The Telegraph Journal examines Saint John's results from the New Brunswick Interim Municipal Report. AIMS Executive Vice President Charles Cirtwill is not surprised that the province's largest city has the highest cost for police services per capita, but indicates that the real question is how well the city is policed.
Denise Barkhouse from News 88.9 speaks with AIMS Director of Research Ian Munro about the New Brunswick Interim Municipal Report Card. This is a story that appeared on the station's website.
AIMS' interim Municipal Report Card for New Brunswick was featured in this front page story in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. It showed people how to read and use the report card results.
This front page story details AIMS Interim Municipal Report Card for New Brunswick with comments from AIMS Executive Vice President Charles Cirtwill. The paper highlighted that Saint John's residential tax burden is in top third of province's cities, towns and villages
A 145 km pipeline project in the Atlantica region running from the Canaport Liquified Natural Gas terminal in Saint John to St Stephen and then into Maine has run into cost overruns and some delays. The extra costs are not expected, however, to make NB an undesirable place for future investments.
Bill Denyar, CEO of the Atlantic Provinces Chamber of Commerce, says that Atlantica is more than a transportation gateway. It's about one region in two countries developing a strategy to seize new opportunities in global markets.
The Toronto Sun turned to AIMS Fellow in Public Education Reform, Angus McBeath, when it sought expert suggestions on improving student performance.
In this front page story, AIMS Director of Research Ian Munro points out that we aren't contributing to the region's long term success by trying to make businesses successful using taxpayers dollars.