East Hants’ Future Lies in Taking on HRM and Winning
What makes an entrepreneurial community? In this talk to the East Hants Chamber of Commerce, Brian Lee Crowley provides some tips on how communities can take full advantage of the opportunities growth has to offer.
US flu vaccine crisis: government health “gurus” triumph again. AIMS in the National Post
If the would-be reformers of the pharmaceutical sector get their way, the whole sector will wind up looking remarkably like the U.S. flu vaccine sector. And yet, according to AIMS author and health economist Brian Ferguson, the flu vaccine crisis was produced by the very policies favoured by those who seek to reform the entire pharmaceutical industry. In this op-ed piece on the Comment page of the Financial Post, he asks, "Any lesson here?"
Ideas Matter #4
Atlantica: the International Northeast Economic Region (AINER) is defined chiefly by geography, economic trends and trade patterns; common problems and experiences; and politics. Much of this wedge of territory has been outside the charmed circle of North American prosperity for years. This edition of Ideas Matter makes the case for why that has to, and is, changing.
AIMS Online, 26 October 2004
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.
What’s at stake for Canada in US trip to polls?
Many Canucks make the mistake of looking at this presidential contest as if they were Americans, and asking how they would vote if they lived in Michigan or Florida. But we live in Canada, and that makes the calculation about who would make the best president a rather different one. In a series of articles in La Presse, the Chronicle Herald, and the Times & Transcript, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley explores the potential impacts of the US election on Canada.
What ails John Kerry’s drug plan?, AIMS in the Globe
Again in last night’s third and final US Presidential debate, Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry, denounced the Bush administration for not permitting the re-importation of pharmaceuticals from Canada. In this piece for the Globe and Mail, AIMS’ author Dr. Brian Ferguson, a noted health economist, explains the economic principles and market realities that make re-importation pure fantasy as a means to control US drug prices.
Grano Series – The American Empire
October 11, 2004, Wiliam Kristol opened the Grano series with "Kerry's Best Hope to beat Bush is to offer an Iraq alternative. Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, worked in the White House of George Bush Sr. The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies has been a partner since the series inception.
Risk: Regulation & Reality
AIMS in partnership with Tech Central Station and the Toronto Insurance Conference hosted Risk: Regulation & Reality, a conference exploring the role and influence of risk in our society.
Low tuition advocates need facts not fantasy
Are rising tuition fees the barrier to low income students that they are so often portrayed to be? Hardly, says AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley, and the facts back him up. In stark contrast to recent assertions by student advocates, Statistics Canada research demonstrates not only a quite manageable student debt load (47% of all students graduate with a first degree debt-free) and a narrowing gap in the percentage of high and low income students entering university. Of course we can do better in helping students pay for their own education, but lowering tuition fees is not the answer. Read this piece to find out more.
AIMS Online, 6 October, 2004
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.