In a recent CBC article discussing a series of proposals created by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, AIMS Vice President Alex Whalen was quoted saying "I don't think taxpayer interests would be served by those proposals. The concern has to be that there are public dollars involved." Read the full article here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-post-green-technology-banking-cupw-unions-1.4982899
Craft Brewers in Nova Scotia feel they're being hampered by provincial policies, and Senior Fellow Ed Hollett knows why. Listen to him discuss the issue on the Sheldon MacLeod Show.
Craft brewing is a burgeoning industry in Atlantic Canada, yet while the number of small breweries has expanded in the last decade, Atlantic Canadian craft brewers claim that their businesses are hampered by bad government policies. AIMS' latest study Opening the Taps: Liberating craft brewers to grow a new industry by Joseph Quesnel, Patrick Webber and [...]
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
A series of blog posts written by SMU research fellow Azad Haider for the AIMS website were cited in the Halifax Star. These submissions detail the significant impact that students from Saudi rabia have on Atlantic Canada, referenced due to recent “training, scholarships and fellowships” for Saudi students in Canada becoming halted. Read the full article [...]
By JOHN RISLEY (AIMS Chair of Board) Atlantic Business Magazine, 04 July 2018 IN OUR ENTHUSIASM to continue to make Canada distinct, uniquely caring, openminded, polite and any other adjective you might like to use to describe not so much what we have been but what we seemingly want to aspire to become… we run [...]
Nova Scotia: Citizens and their elected officials often say that education is the most important investment in our future. Certainly, preparing children for adulthood with literacy and numeracy is a priority. But we must not lose control of the costs. Public education is becoming more expensive, even as enrollment declines. Data show that, [...]
PEI: Some Islanders mistakenly identify small public spending reductions with austerity measures. European countries like Greece and Portugal have genuinely experienced austere conditions, cutting their budgets by a quarter after the Great Recession. In contrast, P.E.I.'s government spends far more money that it did a generation ago. While recent years have seen a [...]
Newfoundland and Labrador: The size and cost of public sector employment has a major effect on the government’s bottom line. Since 1997, Newfoundland and Labrador's public sector has grown from 84 employees per thousand residents in 1997 to 109 per thousand. Across Canada, the average size of provincial public sectors is 83 [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Associated Press) -- As most Americans brace themselves for losing an hour of sleep this weekend, some corners of the country are considering bold alternatives to daylight saving time. California has a bill that would ask voters to abolish the practice of changing clocks twice a year. Lawmakers in Alaska and nearly a [...]