By Joseph Quesnel (AIMS Research Associate) Charlene Combdon, 36, is an award-winning Indigenous entrepreneur and business owner from Newfoundland and Labrador. She has a history of defying expectations, particularly as a female of Indigenous background in a non-traditional area of work. She recalled a time where she was trying to get a business client on [...]
Dr. Mark Raymond obtained his doctoral degree in resource and environmental economics from the University of Guelph. Mark currently serves as the Chairperson for the Department of Economics at the Sobey School of Business and is the former Associate Dean for the School. He has completed multiple resource and environmental-based research projects for various organizations [...]
Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is a renowned scholar for his work on food policy, safety, distribution, and security. He is author of the book Food Safety, Risk Intelligence and Benchmarking. He acts as special advisor to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), to Health Canada on food safety issues, and to Agriculture and Food Canada on [...]
Patrick Webber is an independent researcher, born and raised in New Brunswick. He was previously Research Coordinator for the New Brunswick New Democratic Party (2012–16), and has conducted research projects for other organizations and campaigns. He earned his MA in History at the University of New Brunswick. He also currently contributes articles on political issues [...]
AIMS Fellow in Financial Markets Harry Koza is Senior Analyst for Canadian markets at Thomsonreuters’ IFR Markets. At various times in his career Mr. Koza has been a prospector, metallurgist, project manager, engineer, mining promoter, as well as an institutional bond salesman for fifteen years before joining Thomson Financial. His particular interests are high-yield and distressed securities, [...]
Research Fellow Meredith McDonald specializes in politics and public policy. Her most recent article (co-authored with Ted Morton), “The Siren Song of Economic Diversification: Alberta’s Legacy of Loss,” was published by the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary. She previously worked for the federal government, including roles with the minister of state [...]
Smart Growth: Threatening the quality of life Wendell Cox is principal of Wendell Cox Consultancy, an international demographics and transport firm headquartered in metropolitan St. Louis. Mr. Cox also serves as a visiting professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. He was appointed by Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley to serve [...]
Arthur Woolf received his B.A. degree in history from Cornell University in 1973. He attended graduate school in economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and received his Ph.D. in 1980. He began teaching at the University of Vermont in 1980, where he is currently associate professor of economics. In 1987, he was visiting economist at [...]
James M. Buchanan, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Science, 1986, is currently Advisory General Director of the Center for Study of Public Choice and Harris University Professor at George Mason University. Professor Buchanan received his doctorate from the University of Chicago (1948) and subsequently taught at the University of Tennessee, Florida State University, University of [...]
Paul Hobson is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Queen s University in 1982. He has been on faculty at Acadia since 1981. He has held visiting appointments at Queen s University (1988-1990), University of Western Ontario (1980-1981 and 1984-1986) [...]