This commentary will make you rethink what you know of geography. It places Halifax as the first stop for marine container traffic from Asia. It explains why the Port of Halifax is so pivotal to Atlantica.
The Atlantica message is being heard by some of the most influential policy makers, business leaders and academics on both sides of the border. This commentary is based on a talk AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley made in Connecticut at the invitation of the Council of State Governments.
Equalization has failed. The system encourages dependence not independence. It promotes debt not fiscal prudence. In this commentary, presented to the Expert Panel on Equalization and Territorial Financing Formula, AIMS provides four key public policy changes that can make equalization work.
Canada’s national anthem may intone that God keep our land glorious and free, but across the country more and more urban centres are adding more and more regulations that are making land use anything but free. In this AIMS commentary, based on comments written for his participation in a panel on Urban Sprawl and Smart Growth for the Canadian Regional Science Association in Toronto, Samuel R. Staley warns the increasingly complex regulatory regime for land use in Canada’s urban markets is limiting choice and increasing costs for housing, especially for low-income families.
It's heralded as the next big development. The next economic saviour for Atlantic Canada. It's Liquified Natural Gas. There are three proposals on the books for this latest entry in the region's energy projects. In a talk to the Canadian Institute's LNG/CNG Conference, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley says the window of opportunity is closing. He points out Atlantic Canadian jurisdictions have to move quickly and cooperatively, the lack of which have sunk a few "economic saviours" in the past.
The Supreme Court of Canada decision on health care spurred commentaries across the country. The Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg called it a win for health care consumers.
Depending on the person quoted, the decision by the Supreme Court of Canada to strike down portions of the Quebec Health Insurance Act, was either the end of health care as we know it, or a new beginning. In this commentary, AIMS' Manager of Health Policy, Jamie MacNeil, explains what this decision actually means. He says it is a wake-up call for governments to do things better in health care and honour the promises they've been making to Canadians for years.
Explanations of the Supreme Court of Canada decision on health care hit the blog circuit as fast as commentators hit the traditional media. AIMS' Fellow in Health Care Economics, Brian Ferguson, runs his own blog, "A Canadian Econoview". In this commentary on his blog, Ferguson lays out the reaction to and the reality of the Superior Court's decision.
In this talk to the Annual Meeting of the Canada-Sweden Business Association in Stockholm, Sweden, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley provides a picture of the health care demands of the future. He suggests that as the Baby Boom generation ages, it will demand changes in the provision of health care services.
AIMS used its research in a number of fields to prepare a presentation on productivity and competitiveness at the request of the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce. Director of Research Services, Bruce Winchester, said Ottawa has to take steps to reform equalization, employment insurance and regional development programmes.