Tolls roads – coming soon to an interchange near you
Until quite recently, I never thought I’d see the day when Maritime roads would fall into private hands. This is a region where politicians know they must deliver big-time largesse. And they know their voters are slow to warm to new ideas.
Power to the people key to solving natives’ problems
This AIMS commentary criticises the 1997 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples report. While painting an appaling picture of plight of aboriginals, the commission fails to offer anything like an adequate "solution".
Fear and loathing on the pipeline route
AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley on the 1997 debate over the natural gas pipeline route in eastern Canada.
Ottawa’s reforms no way to run a port
If you’re excited about the economic potential for our major ports, such as Halifax and Saint John, you should be mad as hell right now. Ottawa is missing a golden opportunity to give our ports the kind of structure that has helped turn CN from basketcase into economic powerhouse. Instead, we’re in line for business pretty much as usual in the never-never land of government dominated businesses.
Gassing up the welfare trap machine
Ottawa-bashing, long a favourite local sport, is about to be given a new lease on life by offshore natural gas. At least that is where we seem to be headed in the controversy about how the tax revenues from this natural resource should be shared between Ottawa and Nova Scotia.
Unite what right?
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Government can’t fill this bottomless pit
Don Cayo on the state of the coal industry in Nova Scotia in 1996. He says "There is no way to make everyone happy. But there is a way to get better bang for the very big bucks already committed to compensate for closing the mines. If the federal government was smart -- and I see too little evidence that it is -- it would learn a lesson from the disastrous TAGS program it implemented and then extended after the collapse of East Coast groundfish stocks in 1991."