AIMS releases report on local schools
Regional newspapers around Atlantic Canada made the AIMS Annual Report Card on Atlantic Canadian High Schools front page news. This story in New Glasgow shows educators are beginning to use the information in the report to improve their schools.
Province drilled for lack of mining incentives
Former AIMS policy analyst Fred McMahon is grilled about his latest research on onerous regulatory regime. He finds Nova Scotia at the back of the pack in mining.
Cape Breton high school makes the grade
The first place win by a rural Cape Breton hish school in AIMS annual report card for the third year in a row made front page headlines in Cape Breton.
Snide’s Remarks column: North deserves value-added jobs
This editorial in The Daily Press in north Ontario uses AIMS research material to talk about regional development and mining.
Does Halifax need another container terminal?
AIMS President & CEO Charles Cirtwill says he is in favour of a proposal new container terminal for Melfrod in Nova Scotia, but only it if is completely privately funded.
N.S. partnership with Daewoo a risky return to subsidized ventures: critics
Charles Cirtwill, AIMS President & CEO, expresses his concerns about that latest subsidy to business in Nova Scotia.
The devil was, indeed, in the details
When the deal to sell NB Power to Hydro Quebec fell through, the Telegraph Journal called AIMS President & CEO Charles Cirtwill to provide an opinion piece.
ACOA letting inactive firm off the hook: critic
CBC turned to AIMS for comment after learning that a Nova Scotia company has not making payments on its government loan, but is still classified as active.