Hungry for new ideas
AIMS President Navarro-Génie remarks that the realisation that tired old ways aren’t working is making people hungry for new ideas and solutions.
Media Release: Legislated wage patterns a step in the right direction: AIMS
Halifax – The Nova Scotia government’s decision to legislate wage patterns in the public sector is the kind of fiscally responsible decision needed to address the province’s financial reality, says the Atlantic Institute for Market [...]
Ontario to lose equalization payments as Alberta’s economic fortunes fall
Karen Howlett and Jane Taber
Electoral Reforms represent a paradox for Atlantic Canada
Morgan Beatty and Marco Navarro-Genie analyse the results of the last federal election through the looking glass of electoral reform to show how Atlantic Canada’s variety of representation could improve but at the expense of the region’s political influence.
Are we fighting climate change or capitalism?
AIMS Senior Fellow Robert Roach examines the paradoxical implications of environmentalists who seek the destruction of the market economy, believing that "capitalism is the root cause of environmental problems and social injustices.”
Radio: Electricity Rates in NS
Market prices for coal, oil and natural gas have fallen nearly 50% in the last two years, prompting a decline in electricity rates across North America, except in Nova Scotia where electricity [...]
Radio: The Cost Disease
Across Atlantic Canada education costs are on the rise. Between 1999 and 2010, per student education costs increased by more than 70% in all four Atlantic provinces. One reason for this phenomenon is [...]
Radio: National Childcare
Quebec’s $7/day rate structure for childcare is often touted as a model for Canada because it supposedly makes childcare affordable for Quebecers. In reality, it masks the costs with subsidy, and defers the [...]
Radio: Fixing Undergraduate Education
Canadian universities should publish data that enable the public to evaluate institutional outcomes performance effectively. Our universities may be failing undergraduate students all across the country. At research oriented universities, between 20 % [...]