AIMS Launches Online Report Card
Study on High School Performance is Now Interactive
AIMS On-Line for Mid April 2003
AIMS’ High School Report Card continues to shake up education world, ACOA Watch ignites high-level debate, AIMS Welcomes Patrick Luciani as Senior Fellow on Urban Policy and Canada and the USA – The Narcissism of Small Differences.
AIMS Welcomes Patrick Luciani
New Senior Fellow Urban Policy
AIMS fires back at study’s critics
Since the release of AIMS Report Card on Atlantic Canadian high schools more than a month ago, teacher associations and government leaders have categorized the study as misleading, flawed in its data and demonstrating poor methodology. But AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley said none of the government recipients of the study has yet been specific in its claims.
AIMS President issues “Call to Action on Immigration”
On Friday, April 11th, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley was asked to issue the keynote “Call to Action” at the Nova Scotia Immigration Partnership Conference organized by the Metropolitan Immigrant Settlement Association (MISA). In his talk was entitled “You’re not from around here, are you?”
Academics line up to endorse AIMS report card
AIMS methodology “exceptional”, “fair”, “illuminating”, “objective”
Getting the Message – Lower Taxes = Regional Growth
Politics may play a part, however the move toward lowering taxes in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick shows provincial governments in Atlantic Canada are increasingly giving signs they understand that growth - and taxes- matter.
AIMS Calls on Education Ministers to Withdraw Unjustified Attacks on High School Report Card
Newfoundland's claims unsubstantiated. Repetition by other ministers both unfair and uninformed
Canada and the USA – Bad Mood Rising?
Brian Lee Crowley addresses Canada's position on the war in Iraq.
Maybe the time has come to phase out ACOA – Crosbie
AIMS recent release of ACOA Watch has reinvigorated the debate surrounding the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. In a frank interview with the Saint John Telegraph Journal, John Crosbie, who was once the minister responsible for ACOA in the early 1990s, argued it's time to look at phasing out Ottawa's principal agency for economic development in Atlantic Canada. "It's time for new and different initiatives to be tried because what we have been doing hasn't been that tremendously effective"