Radio: AIMS Platform for Nova Scotia
During the provincial election campaign, political parties in Nova Scotia presented their policy platforms, which detailed a governing agenda for the next four years. For the first time, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies has released its own document, listing non-partisan policy proposals for the province's next government. Gleaned from interviews with [...]
AIMS Platform: entrepreneurship critical to NS economic growth
HALIFAX, NS – Today, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) released its Platform for Nova Scotia. This document outlines a series of implementable policy proposals for the province’s next government. The recommendations cover all of AIMS’s research areas, including energy, immigration, education, healthcare, and finance. This Spring, the Institute surveyed dozens of leading minds [...]
Radio: Student Essay Contest
AIMS's student outreach program, AIMS on Campus, is holding an essay contest. Open to all students, the subject is supply management in Canadian agriculture. Is it time for Canada to adopt a market system for eggs, milk and poultry, thereby sending the current model the way of the Canada Wheat Board? Or does [...]
New Brunswick’s Magic Weed?
“It’s simple market dynamics,” says OrganiGram’s Ray Gracewood. “Many recreational users now purchase within the black market, so our industry challenge will be providing a safer, more consistent and better-packaged product. To make the legal adult recreational framework effective, we’ll need to ensure pricing is in line to offer value that appeals to all consumers.” But [...]
P3 schools more successful than imagined, says new study
HALIFAX, NS – The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) today published a policy study about procurement for public school construction. With recent public controversy about "queue jumping" Nova Scotia school construction, the paper provides a sober commentary on the state of procurement in the province. AIMS is Atlantic Canada's only independent public policy research [...]
AIMS releases paper on New Brunswick tuition program
Un message en français suit. HALIFAX, NS – The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) released this morning a public policy study about low-income tuition subsidies. Post-Secondary Tuition and Low-Income Access discusses New Brunswick's Tuition Access Bursary (TAB) program, which covers college and university tuition for the children of families earning under $60,000 per year. [...]
Jackson Doughart on Supply Management
Canada's dairy, egg, and poultry industries are governed by supply management, which restricts production, controls prices, and restricts imports. This arrangement is bad for consumers, who pay high prices for staple foods without lower-cost alternatives. It also weakens the competition of producers. Changes to our U.S. trade relationship may push Ottawa to open the market to more [...]