By Sylvain Charlebois (AIMS Senior Fellow) The Lakeside Leader, 19 November 2018 Within a year, single-use plastics and excess packaging have become public enemy number 1. Everyone is talking about how our lives are overrun by too much plastic. Just recently, a Greenpeace-led audit looked at waterways waste and companies involved. Much of the plastic [...]
By Sylvain Charlebois (AIMS Senior Fellow) Net News Ledger, 02 October 2018 They may not know it yet, but the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), or NAFTA 2.0, could become the watershed moment Canadian dairy farmers have been waiting for. The Trudeau government has committed to compensating the dairy sector for either lost sales, higher per-unit [...]
By Sylvain Charlebois (AIMS Senior Fellow) Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, recently notified its leafy green suppliers that they will need to use blockchain by the end of next year. Walmart is banking on its relationship with IBM to put pressure on the entire sector to comply to what consumers want from the [...]
The recent AIMS study An Untapped Potential for Educational Diversity was referred to in a piece by Fergus Hodgson for the Epoch Times, supporting the model in Eastern Canada. Read here
Platform for New Brunswick: Public Policies for Growth and Prosperity raises discussion of public policy reform. Author Marco Navarro-Génie, President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, makes the case for more disciplined fiscal stewardship, better use of market mechanisms in health care, developing New Brunswick’s energy resources, and evidence-based education policy. New Brunswick will [...]
By John Risley (AIMS Chairman of the Board) Atlantic Business Magazine, 23 August 2018 DEAR Dwight, Brian, Wade and Stephen, The purpose of this letter is not to be critical. Rather it is to encourage more aggressive action in bringing our Atlantic region into a more collaborative framework. The goal would be to reduce the [...]
Senior Fellow Ed Hollett appeared on NTV's Issues and Answers to discuss Muskrat Falls being sent to the public utility board. Watch him weigh in here
By Paige MacPherson (AIMS Author) The Guardian, 04 September 2018 The Telegram, 08 September 2018 The Calgary Herald, 20 September 2018 The Toronto Sun, 15 September 2018 Nova Scotian kids aren’t getting access to the educational choices they deserve. While students in five provinces have a diverse range of partially or fully funded school options, [...]
Is it time we expanded our understanding of public education in the Atlantic region? Listen to AIMS author and alumna Paige MacPherson of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation discuss the charter school model on the Sheldon MacLeod Show.
Untapped Potential for Educational Diversity, the latest study from AIMS, was reported on in the online news outlet Nectarine