By JACKSON DOUGHART (AIMS Research Coordinator) The Guardian, 15 April 2017 Troy Media, 19 April 2017 The Daily Gleaner, 20 April 2017 Business Vancouver, 5 May 2017 The newly minted Canadian Free Trade Agreement is no great accomplishment. Instead of free exchange, most of the deal's convoluted text entrenches protectionism, with some 130 pages of exemptions. [...]
By ED HOLLETT (AIMS Senior Fellow) Troy Media, 11 April 2017 The Telegram, 17 April 2017 The budget strategy laid out by Newfoundland and Labrador in 2016 was simple: government would hold down program spending, allow for some increases in total spending from higher debt servicing costs, and let rising oil prices and other income balance [...]
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (AIMS Senior Fellow) Troy Media, April 10, 2017 Waterloo Record, April 12, 2017 Exchange Magazine, 13 April 2017 The Battlefords News-Optimist, 15 April 2017 As the July 1 CETA implementation date looms, a critical decision on import quotas is expected soon following several months of highly politicized consultations. If import quotas fail to [...]
By PATRICK WEBBER (AIMS Research Associate) Troy Media, April 6, 2017 Telegraph Journal, April 10, 2017 New Brunswick is often thought of as a rural place, aided by the absence of a single large urban centre. This sets New Brunswick apart from the other three Atlantic provinces, all with one dominant city. Figures from the 2016 [...]
By ED HOLLETT (AIMS Senior Fellow) The Telegram, April 4, 2017 Based on their experience with tax increases last year, many Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are looking to Thursday’s budget with some understandable worry. This public anxiety is one of the reasons the provincial government should make a course correction. Here are three specific things the provincial [...]
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (AIMS Senior Fellow) Troy Media, March 28, 2017 Waterloo Region Record, March 30, 2017 “For the most part, the Canadian agri-food sector cheered the 2017 Federal budget. With a few dollars short, innovation and infrastructure were properly addressed in this budget. But the budget’s total license on policy reform and strategic frameworks will likely [...]
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (AIMS Senior Fellow) Troy Media, March 22, 2017 Waterloo Region Record, March 24, 2017 Times Colonist, March 26, 2017 “Brazil is a mess, and this latest food fraud scandal involving major companies and public authorities will only make matters worse.” After Europe’s horsemeat scandal, Brazil, the largest exporter of meat products in the [...]
By DAVID ZITNER (AIMS Senior Fellow) Troy Media, March 19, 2017 LocalXpress, March 22, 2017 Battlefords News-Optimist, March 24, 2017 Canadian seniors are a privileged group. The Conference Board of Canada reports that life expectancy today is 10 years longer than it was in 1961. The average Canadian can expect to live three years longer than [...]
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (AIMS Senior Fellow) LocalXpress, March 15, 2017 Times Colonist, March 19, 2017 Radio Canada International, March 24, 2017 "Recent surveys suggest the average adult spends more time watching cooking shows than actually cooking. Cooking has become optional for most of us. That means we've relinquished control of what we eat to corporations. And [...]
By WENDELL COX (Principal of Demographia) Canada is a nation of wide open spaces, yet it has high urban area densities recently driven higher by a redefinition of urban area criteria (Note 1). Canada's largest urban area (population centre) is Toronto, with a population of 5.4 million continues to be the densest of the 59 with [...]