First the Gas, then the Grid: Keeping the Cart Behind the Horse
At the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Gas Association in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley made the case that while some believe that Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have opposing interests in natural gas, nothing could be further from the truth. Both would benefit more from increased gas exploration and development, and both would be harmed by a premature extension of the national gas distribution grid to uneconomic areas.
AIMS Names National Policy Thinker, Innovator as New Director of Research
Former Sun Life Chief Economist Don McIver joins one of Canada’s fastest growing and most dynamic think tanks
AIMS On-Line Special for June 26, 2003
Don’t Miss Angus McBeath at The Halifax Club
AIMS On-Line for June 26, 2003
An invitation to an AIMS event With Edmonton Superintendent of Schools,
Atlantic Fisheries Can Learn From BC Experience
Author Laura Jones explains how the adoption of Individual Transferable Quotas revolutionised fisheries in British Columbia
Cheap pills today or new pills tomorrow?
Around the world, politicians are forcing drug companies to lower their prices. They deny the companies’ products access to hospital dispensaries, create buying cartels, reduce patent protection or any one of a host of other manoeuvres. We have frequently done this in Canada. The result, drug prices have been lowered for medical marvels already discovered. That is fine, but are we stalling discoveries? Is the cost of these policies needlessly prolonged suffering? In this column from the Halifax Chronicled Herald and Moncton Times and Transcript, AIMS President Dr. Brian Lee Crowley examines how human ingenuity in its destructive form threatens the flow of pharmaceutical innovation.
Washington Comes to AIMS: “Reaping What We Have Sown”.
Leading political commentator and White House advisor David Frum provides his unique perspective on Canada-US relations
Shooting the Messenger – Atlantic Canadian educators lay the blame on the AIMS high school report card
Atlantic Canadian educators were quick to vilify the AIMS report card on high schools calling it “a disservice” and “misleading”. What they did not do is back up their arguments with facts. In this commentary for Progress magazine, Jim Meek observes, instead of carping at critics, educators must take a closer look at the benefits of ranking our schools.
Nationalize in haste, repent at leisure
Auto insurance today an issue laden with emotion. But, as we have seen repeatedly, emotion is never a good basis on which to reconcile complex public policy issues. This is especially true when the costs of an ill-considered and hurried decision are likely to be with us for a very long time. State-run insurance schemes cannot be invoked out of thin air. There are hundreds of millions of dollars in start-up costs. AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley looks at this highly charged issue from the Atlantic Canadian perspective.
The End of the Beginning – A short update on the Stockholm healthcare revolution
Johan Hjertqvist summarises the healthcare advances made in Stockholm during the 1990s, describing the reforming process and its good results, but also new difficulties that have cropped up along the way.