Rebuking the Romanow Report
Chancellor Park is a recently built investor-owned facility in St. John's. It is the only large for-profit nursing home in the capital city. The pilot project was an attempt to secure additional high needs beds without expanding the government run facilities in the city. This week Newfoundland Health Minister Gerald Smith released the results of a yearlong pilot study that compared the quality and cost of caring for high needs elderly in a not-for-profit government run home with a for-profit private home. It was no contest.
Newsletter attacks ACOA numbers – Federal minister uses strong language in response to claims by think tank
ACOA Watch, AIMS most recent series of publications has drawn a curious response from the federal Minister responsible for ACOA, the Hon. Gerry Byrne. In an interview with Moncton Times Transcript reporter Campbell Morrison. Mr. Byrne said "Interesting to see where this ACOA Watch goes and their little newsletter, and see whether they are not walking, talking hypocrites," ACOA Watch is an independent objective analysis of Atlantic Canada’s primary federal economic development agency. In response to being read this and other derisive comments, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley responded, "Climbing down into this kind of personal attack suggests that the minister does not know what to say about the substance of the matter. I’d be glad to debate the substance with him but I am not going to get into name-calling with him."
AIMS On-Line for late March 2003
Here is what's new at AIMS, Atlantic Canada's Public Policy Think Tank
Canada and the US – The Narcissism of Small Differences
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley says, whatever your attitude to the Iraq conflict, maintaining positive and constructive relations with the United States is in Canada's national interest. This is not merely a matter of crude economics, however important that may be. Much more significantly, we share a set of moral, democratic and other values with the United States that make them our friends and allies in the very deepest sense of those words.
Government job creation called a $1-trillion waste
Canada has squandered more than $1 trillion over the past 30 years in efforts to develop Atlantic Canada and it has done more harm than good, members of the Regina Chamber of Commerce were told. Brian Crowley, the founding president of the Atlantic Institute of Market Studies, said the failed efforts to develop Atlantic Canada's economy provides key lessons for Canada and for Saskatchewan. Those lessons are that direct government involvement in job creation and in the marketplace don't work, Crowley said.
AIMS Launches ACOA Watch
Inaugural Issue: Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! The Numbers Game
Learning from education studies?
Atlantic Canadian newspapers continue to wade into the debate on AIMS Report Card on Atlantic Canadian High Schools. In the Friday March 21 edition of the Journal Pioneer in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, the paper said it is hard to get upset over Education Minister Chester Gillan not having information on high schools ‘readily available’ when staffing issues should take priority.
PEI Education Minister dismissive of AIMS Study But Adopts Many of its Recommendations
AIMS Researcher says, “supply evidence or withdraw unjustified criticism”.
AIMS’ Open Letter to Prince Edward Island Premier Pat Binns
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley invites Premier to help ensure information on education is made public.
Progress Magazine publishes AIMS Report Card on Atlantic Canada’s High Schools
Reaction is swift across the region