In the latest edition of The Beacon hear what businessmen in Buffalo, New York have to say about AIMS' Atlantica concept, travel to California to read the AIMS' position on the cross-border prescription drug trade, and read about a politician who did the right thing.
The Beacon returns! AIMS is pleased to reintroduce this updated version of our original newsletter "The Beacon". In this inaugaural issue you will find discussions on Canada-US relations, pharmaceutical policy issues, the modernization of Newfoundland's fishery, NS tax cuts and the issue of problem gamblers.
Is there a natural economic region straddling the border between Canada and the US and including Atlantic Canada, northern New England, upstate New York and parts of southern and eastern Quebec, a region increasingly known as “Atlantica: the International Northeast Economic Region (AINER)”? AIMS thinks so and, as this AOL shows, so do a lot of other people, and the number grows larger every day.
Celebrating AIMS' first ten years headlines this week's AOL. Along with the words of praise from this party comes our usual wide range of issues including: U.S.-Canada relations, offshore revenue, flu vaccines, drug re-importation, surgical waiting time, municipal service improvements and yet more new positions at AIMS as we continue to grow.
Covered in this issue - why John Kerry is wrong about re-importation of Canadian drugs, holding the environmental movement to account, a new weekly TV show featuring AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley, community leadership modelled on AIMS report card work, the ongoing debate about rising education tuitions, more on who should own the sea, and finally the challenges ahead for Membertou Inc.'s successful business based model of aboriginal self-government.
Cheap drugs, unaccountable environmental activists, a Prime Minister who squanders his fiscal legacy, states and provinces pursuing wrongheaded development policies and cities looking for handouts all get some attention from AIMS in this week's newsletter.
Are we forgoing economic opportunities because of irrational fears of hypothetical risks? Can government make risk disappear? And what are the real costs and benefits of the widespread belief that regulation can tame risk? If, like us, you think these questions are some of the most important facing Canada today, we hope you'll join us for this upcoming conference in Toronto where the use of regulation to manage risk will be explored. We have excellent international speakers joining us and we believe this event will be useful as we move forward in ongoing policy discussion with today government leaders.
Accountability for environmentalists, no federal money for cities, understanding and allowing for risk in today's economy and society, plus reflections on our common continentla home (AIMS 10th anniversary dinner!), tuition fees and subsidies make up this week's AOL.
Reviving the offshore gas industry, keeping gas prices down, combatting myths about the global oil supply, taking a critical look at the media's treatment of the aquaculture industry, matching business principles and aborginal self government and, celebrating 10 years of AIMS' success.
Urban Chic, Plugging Atlantica into the Emerging Global Network, Social Policy and the New Economy, David Zitner on Health Care Innovation and more.