By KIM MACKRAEL (Wall Street Journal) OTTAWA—The collapse in recent years of global commodity prices exposed structural weaknesses in Canada’s resource-rich economy after it had lost export capacity and market share in the years leading up to the 2008-2009 recession, a senior Bank of Canada official said Tuesday. Deputy Governor Lawrence Schembri told an audience [...]
An article for Newfoundland & Labrador's VOCM radio station website quotes AIMS President Marco Navarro-Génie, who argues against a return to equalization for the province. Listen to the clip below. Read the piece on the VOCM website. The President of an Atlantic Canada economic think tank says it would be unwise for Newfoundland [...]
A Calgary Herald editorial criticizes labour policies from the federal government. It quotes AIMS's Vice President of Research John Williamson, who fears that the government "is creating an EI trap." Read the full editorial on the Calgary Herald website. Canada has long relied on foreign workers to fill shortages in our labour force, but it’s [...]
In a Globe and Mail story by Jane Taber, Marco Navarro-Génie says, "More people alone can’t fix the economy, especially when we can’t retain the people that we do bring." Read the full story on the Globe and Mail website. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q_9ZGmDNs0 The federal government and the four Atlantic premiers are launching a three-year pilot project [...]
A Chronicle Herald story quotes AIMS VP of Research John Williamson, who argues that HST hikes "will mean more revenue for governments and less in the pockets of working families." Read the full article on the Chronicle Herald website. Canada Day revellers likely weren’t thinking about it, but Atlantic Canada has taken another step toward [...]
In OL Daily, Stephen Downes writes that "E-Learning in K-12 Schools" "captures some of the major problems with the approach in Atlantic Canada, especially the top-down provincially-based organization and management." Read the post here.
Canadian Press writer reports on Paul Bennett’s policy paper for AIMS, entitled “E-Learning in K-12 Schools: The Prospects for Disruptive Innovation.” The paper details Atlantic Canada's lethargy in e-learning reform. Read the full article on the Telegraph-Journal website. FREDERICTON - A new report says New Brunswick and the Atlantic provinces are falling behind other jurisdictions when [...]
Halifax's Chronicle Herald reports on Paul Bennett's policy paper, entitled "E-Learning in K-12 Schools: The Prospects for Disruptive Innovation," which contends that the Atlantic provinces have lost the e-learning initiative. Read the full article on the Chronicle Herald website. A new report from a Maritime think tank says schools in Atlantic Canada have fallen way [...]
In a Radio-Canada piece about temporary foreign workers, AIMS President Marco Navarro-Génie says, "We must first address the question of local workers ... whom have not been attracted to employment." Read the piece, in French, on the Radio-Canada website.
In a story about the Bas-Caraquet shipyard bailout in New Brunswick, the Telegraph-Journal quotes AIMS Vice-President of Research John Williamson, who argues that this "smacks of a risky government bailout." Read the full story at the Telegraph-Journal website. By John Chilibeck, Legislature Bureau The Liberals’ decision to bail out the foundering small-boat shipyard on the Acadian [...]