Calgary Herald columnist and Editorial Board member Danielle Smith has written a column about AIMS' new book Road to Growth. Click here to read "Jobs flourish when businesses earn big profits", which first appeared in the Herald on February 8, 2000.
Talks between Inco and the government of Newfoundland and Labrador on the development of the rich Voisey's Bay mineral deposit collapsed recently, and may now be postponed indefinitely. AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley analyses the role played in this drama by Canada's equalization system in his column in The Globe and Mail.
Our myopic fear of Americanizing our health care system blinds us to the many constructive reforms to publicly-financed health care that Europeans have introduced in recent years in response to the same sort of challenges our home grown medicare faces. Publication: CHH December 26, 1999; SJT, January 9, 2000. By Nancy Faraday-Smith
Is Brian Tobin a fiscal conservative? The idea that a premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, the poorest province in the land, is actually a careful and prudent manager of tax dollars may appear hard to swallow to many people in the rest of the country. Rightly or wrongly, people often picture the Newfoundland government as always having its hand out, bemoaning the province's victimization by outside forces, unwilling to take charge of its own fate. Yet the truth is rather different.
The provincial finance ministers have struck a joint agreement aimed at pressing Paul Martin to direct the looming federal surplus towards tax cuts and greater transfers to provincial budgets. But just whose surplus is it, anyway?
Martin has called on Canadians to begin a national debate on what sort of government we want. Particularly, how much should it spend and on what? Publication; HDN November 7, 1999. By Fred McMahon
Publication: HDN October 31, 1999. By Fred McMahon
Publication:HDN October 24, 1999. By Fred McMahon
In this article which appeared in the monthly newsletter published by the Atlas Foundation, AIMS founding president Brian Lee Crowley has some words of advice for other think tanks dealing with the media. His basic message is a simple one: treat the media as the intelligent people that they are, and accept that the value of your ideas is not self-evident.