Do more to cut taxes, N.B. urged
In this story about the harmonized sales tax, AIMS acting President Charles Cirtwill makes the case for overall tax cuts, rather than specific tax cuts and rebates.
FSL plan means big changes
A New Brunswick commission is recommending some changes to the province's French Second Language programming. In this front page story, AIMS senior policy analyst Bobby O'Keefe points out that any changes need to be made based on accurate information and data.
Follow the Castonguay model
The task force report on financing Quebec's health system is making headlines across the country. It sets out recommendations to cure some of what ails public health care. This editorial from The National Post suggests the report is just what Canada's public health care system needs to get better.
Halifax should be able to levy income tax, user fees: expert
A paper published by AIMS on municipal taxation took centre stage at Halifax City Hall. The report by Harry Kitchen says the city needs to depend less on property tax and more on other forms of revenue.
Equalization payments equal unfairness
In his regular column in The Globe and Mail, Neil Reynolds uses a recent speech by AIMS Sernior Fellow in Fairness in Confederation David MacKinnon to highlight the inequality of equalization.
Atlantic reps pitching ‘whole region’ in India
AIMS acting president Charles Cirtwill applauds an effort to establish trade links with India. He says it's about time, but also suggests it's going to take more than one trade mission to establish solid links.
Getting Our Money’s Worth: Task Force on Financing of the Health System
Former Quebec Health Minister, and CHCCG signator, Claude Castonguay released his Quebec Task Force on financing the Health System. It contains significant recommendations to fix the public health care system. This news release issued by the task force provides an executive summary.
Hope Glimmers for Regional East-West Highway
Poor east-west road conditions in the Atlantica region are seen as one of the major hurdles that must be overcome to seize new opportunities in trade and transportation. The Northeast CanAm project is examining what needs to be done and a proposed private highway linking the Maritimes to Quebec via Maine looks promising, especially given the importance of trucking in the region.
Maine, New Brunswick seek a cultural crossing
An art exhibit in Saint John, New Brunswick is heralded as another example of the success of Atlantica. Featuring works by Maine artist Bernard Langlais, the exhibit is heralded as proof that stronger cultural ties, as well as economic ties, are crucial to the success of the region.
Educational choice a basic human right
In this article from the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, William Forrestall says school choice is a human right that is being denied in Atlantic Canada. A member of an NB school board, he says "Atlantic Canada’s education bureaucrats’ mastery is not successful student outcomes, but protecting their monopoly funded fiefdoms from the competitive checks and balances that define education in normal democratic societies."