Taxpayers in Newfoundland and Labrador should be offered more information and more protections when it comes to the Lower Churchill development, according to energy consultant and AIMS contributor Gordon Weil.
A new report on the merits of developing Muskrat Falls, calls the project desirable but risky. Author Gordon Weil, at the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), suggests a series of measures that would reduce the financial burden on the province.
In this op-ed, AIMS Fellow in Common Sense Education Michael Zwaagstra examines the new math education curriculum adopted by the NS government in an attempt to improve math instruction. Zwaagstra concludes that this with this new curriculum we can expect math education to get worse in Nova Scotia. The province must adopt a rigorous curriculum that emphasizes the necessary knowledge and skills.
AIMS board member David Zitner argues that patients in Nova Scotia should have access to their laboratory results to ensure that results are not lost, ignored or not communicated.
In this article, AIMS President and CEO Charles Cirtwill comments on the open boundary public school model and notes that the adoption of an open boundary system in Halifax would lead to less division along socio-economic lines than Halifax already has.
The trend of closing smaller schools and building supersized facilities in their place is ill-advised says AIMS President and CEO, Charles Cirtwill.
In this op-ed, Juanita Spencer argues that shifting equalization funds from provinces to people would achieve our constitutional commitments and goals, and provide incentives encouraging local governments to meet local demands.
In this op-ed, AIMS Fellow in Common Sense Education Michael Zwaagstra argues to keep no-zero policies out of schools in Nova Scotia. Zwaagstra discusses how research evidence that strongly supports no-zero policies is flawed.
In this Op-Ed, AIMS Author, Gordon L. Weil, examines a solution to regional power authorities: a power pool. An Atlantic Canadian power pool, modeled after New England, would enable each utility to continue to own and control its own generators and transmission lines. Utilities would be able to share reserve power and increase overall power reliability as well as reduce the cost that Atlantic Canadians pay .
AIMS Fellow in Healthcare Policy, David Zitner, argues that the draft Health Services and Insurance Act does not address the key problems afflicting medicare in Nova Scotia. Instead, it continues the heartrending story of delayed care, lack of accountability and failed governance, including tolerance for errors leading to unnecessary discomfort, disability and death.