Mark Raymond
Dr. Mark Raymond obtained his doctoral degree in resource and environmental economics from the University of Guelph. Mark currently serves as the Chairperson for the Department of Economics at the Sobey School of Business and [...]
Canada’s Urban Areas: descent from affordability
By WENDELL COX (Principal of Demographia) Canada is a nation of wide open spaces, yet it has high urban area densities recently driven higher by a redefinition of urban area criteria (Note 1). Canada's largest urban [...]
Harry Koza
AIMS Fellow in Financial Markets Harry Koza is Senior Analyst for Canadian markets at Thomsonreuters’ IFR Markets. At various times in his career Mr. Koza has been a prospector, metallurgist, project manager, engineer, mining promoter, as [...]
Meredith McDonald
Research Fellow Meredith McDonald specializes in politics and public policy. Her most recent article (co-authored with Ted Morton), “The Siren Song of Economic Diversification: Alberta’s Legacy of Loss,” was published by the School of Public [...]
A bank called Costco
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (AIMS Senior Fellow) Troy Media, March 9, 2017 The Guardian, March 9, 2017 Summary: Costco now has 10% of the food retailing market in Canada, and is going to charge you more to [...]
Creditors will be chief audience for N.L. budget
By ED HOLLETT (AIMS Senior Fellow) The Telegram, March 13, 2017 Troy Media, March 13, 2017 Battlefords News-Optimist, March 18, 2017 In setting its budget for 2017, Newfoundland and Labrador needs to correct a public finance crisis, ushered [...]
Marco Navarro-Génie speaks with Ben Mulroney on CTV’s Your Morning
Why immigration is desperately needed in Atlantic Canada - Marco Navarro-Genie, President & CEO, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), discusses why people aren’t staying in or moving to Atlantic Canada. Perfect Atlantic Storm Many Atlantic [...]
Manitoba should cut 36,000 civil service jobs, think-tank says
CBC News quoting AIMS President Marco Navarro-Génie By CBC News • CBC.ca, 07 March 2017 A Winnipeg-based think-tank recommends shrinking Manitoba's civil service workforce by about 36,000 jobs because it says the sector is too big for [...]
Marco Navarro-Génie speaking with CBC News Manitoba
On March 7, 2017, AIMS CEO Marco Navarro-Génie was interviewed by CBC News Manitoba about the newly released study published jointly by The Frontier Centre for Public Policy and the Atlantic Institute [...]
Only a growth agenda will make Island prosper
By JACKSON DOUGHART (AIMS Research Coordinator) The Journal-Pioneer, March 2, 2017 The Charlottetown Guardian, March 7, 2017 Summary: More outside capital and greater productivity are the keys to greater prosperity on Prince Edward Island. With the greatest [...]