Past AIMS board member Nancy Tower was mentioned in an article published by Electric Energy Online reporting her new position as President and Chief Executive Officer of Tampa Electric. Her affiliation and connection to AIMS was referenced in her biography. Read here
Marco Navarro-Génie, AIMS President and CEO, and his participation in the Atlantic Cannabis Forum (intended to appeal to businesses, legislators, regulators, public health and safety authorities and services) were mentioned in an article published by the Cape Breton Post. Read here
by JOHN RISLEY (AIMS Chairman of the Board) The Telegram, 26 September 2017 Who can blame you if you are among those scratching their heads, trying to interpret the rhetoric on both sides of the debate over Ottawa’s planned changes to the tax code? As is usual in such cases, the arguments quickly retreat to [...]
Keeping families and jobs in rural Canada is not easy. Proposed changes to capital gains rules would make it harder for a family member to keep the family farm, according to AIMS senior fellow Sylvain Charlebois. Many wonder how values embedded in everything the family business does can survive if the next [...]
A new idea from AIMS would create a modern employment insurance system that meets the needs of workers and employers. Here’s how the new system would work: Payroll deductions would go into an individual Personal Security Account for each worker. Individuals who lose work could draw benefits under a single national standard, [...]
Keeping families and jobs in rural Canada is not easy. Proposed changes to capital gains rules would make it harder for a family member to keep the family farm, according to AIMS senior fellow Sylvain Charlebois. Many wonder how values embedded in everything the family business does can survive if the next generation [...]
A new idea from AIMS would create a modern employment insurance system that meets the needs of workers and employers. Here’s how the new system would work: Payroll deductions would go into an individual Personal Security Account for each worker. Individuals who lose work could draw benefits under a single national [...]
By John Risley (AIMS Chairman of the Board) Atlantic Business Magazine, 05 September 2018 The Trump administration is now some six months old and I could not be more disappointed in what it has accomplished—or rather, failed to accomplish. Encouraged by the choice of people like Mattis, Tillerson, Cohn, Mnuchin, Ross, DeVos and others, I [...]
On September 8th, 2017, CBC New Brunswick reported on the alternative system of Employment Insurance proposed in the 2017 AIMS study "From Tax to Security: an alternative to Employment Insurance" to better help Atlantic Canadians with their savings. Read the full report here
On September 8th, 2017, President and CEO Marco Navarro-Génie appeared in the Halifax Examiner. Navarro-Génie commented on Bill 148 and his expectations of Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil. Read the full article here