How to Resolve Health Care Controversies
By DAVID ZITNER (AIMS Senior Fellow) Ordinary citizens are stuck without the information necessary to make personal and political choices about health care. About half of government program spending is on health care. Yet, no one [...]
Alex Whalen on the Sheldon MacLeod Show: AIMS Platform for NS
On May 19, 2017, AIMS Operations Manager Alex Whalen joined the Sheldon MacLeod Show on News 95.7 FM to discuss his latest paper, AIMS Platform for Nova Scotia.
Radio: AIMS Platform for Nova Scotia
During the provincial election campaign, political parties in Nova Scotia presented their policy platforms, which detailed a governing agenda for the next four years. For the first time, the Atlantic Institute for [...]
AIMS Platform: entrepreneurship critical to NS economic growth
HALIFAX, NS – Today, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) released its Platform for Nova Scotia. This document outlines a series of implementable policy proposals for the province’s next government. The recommendations cover all [...]
The Lost Food Generation
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (Senior Fellow) Most generations shaped their own food destiny, while Gen Xers just took what was available to them, without discriminating. Along the way, they became the lost food generation. Generation Xers don’t [...]
Platform for Nova Scotia
This Spring, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) surveyed dozens of leading minds in Nova Scotia about the province’s future. Respondents discussed their concerns about Nova Scotia, including low growth, decaying public institutions, [...]
Atlantic Canada’s opportunity for American immigration
By IRVIN STUDIN (AIMS Author) The Times-Transcript, 18 May 2017 The Daily Gleaner, 18 May 2017 The Telegraph-Journal, 19 May 2017 The Local Xpress, 19 May 2017 The Charlottetown Guardian, 23 May 2017 Troy Media, 28 May 2017 Hamilton Spectator, 31 May [...]
Radio: Student Essay Contest
AIMS's student outreach program, AIMS on Campus, is holding an essay contest. Open to all students, the subject is supply management in Canadian agriculture. Is it time for Canada to adopt a market [...]
Dispelling the P3 schools myth: setting the record straight
By PAUL BENNETT (AIMS Author) News 95.7, The Rick Howe Show 11 May 2017 Public-Private Partnership (P3) schools come with a lot of baggage: opportunistic edu-preneurs, the Horton High “Taj Mahal,” "gold plated" school extras, and [...]
Marco Navarro-Genie on Tim Powers Show
On May 12, 2017, AIMS President & CEO Marco Navarro-Génie spoke with Tim Powers about the upcoming AIMS event in St. John's with John Risley. John Risley, OC, Chairman of AIMS, will [...]