Atlantic Canada should not be stripped of Supreme Court seat
AIMS Operations Manager Alex Whalen, a graduate of the Dalhousie law school, discusses changes to the Supreme Court appointment process. He bemoans that Atlantic Canada is losing its convention of one guaranteed seat on the [...]
Trump’s business experience actually makes him really dangerous to the economy
In his Financial Post column, AIMS Research Fellow Patrick Luciani debunks the notion that experience in business portends well for executive political power. For instance, Donald Trump's business success in gambling and real estate industries [...]
Radio: CPP Reform Effect on Workers
Annual benefits from the Canada Pension Plan will rise by as much as $4,500. To finance this expansion, Ottawa and provincial governments have decided to increase payroll taxes. Workers and employers already pay [...]
HST increase outweighs spending cuts 5 to 1
AIMS Vice President of Research John Williamson responds to New Brunswick's Treasury Board Minister Roger Melanson about spending and deficits: "So long as New Brunswick continues to tax and spend the government will not balance [...]
Samuel Cunard Prize awarded to John Risley
Cunard, along with the Canadian Maritime Heritage Foundation and the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, will award the second annual Samuel Cunard Prize for Vision, Courage and Creativity to John Risley, President of Clearwater Fine [...]
Bus Rapid Transit is key to Halifax’s infrastructure reform
In The Coast, AIMS's Mannkal Intern Ryan Scarth discusses transit reform in Halifax, proposing that the city implement a Bus Rapid Transit system in lieu of a commuter rail line from Beaverbank to Downtown. This [...]
John Williamson on NB spending
AIMS Vice President of Research John Williamson appeared on CBC Radio to discuss government spending in New Brunswick. He argued that the recent HST increase is supporting spending, not deficit control.
Radio: Democratic Reform
New Brunswick and P.E.I. are proposing changes to how we vote. Both provincial governments have discussed changing the current, first-past-the-post electoral system to an alternative means of electing our representatives. Another consideration is [...]
Atlantic immigration plan must meet policy reform
AIMS President Marco Navarro-Génie discusses the recently-announced immigration pilot project. "More immigration to the region is good," he writes. "But its success is tethered to retaining workers. We need to straighten out the policies that [...]
Ending ‘Come from Away’ starts with the economy
In the National Post, AIMS policy analyst Jackson Doughart argues that the Maritime custom of saying that foreign-born people "come from away" is a product of the provinces' poor economies and mistrust of Upper Canada. [...]