Last year, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies published a paper on LNG, which pointed out that liquefied natural gas offered a huge opportunity to Atlantic Canada and Atlantica. However, author Angela Tu-Weissenberg said that opportunity was fleeting and there was a lot of competition. This article in The New York Times proves her point.
Read about Atlantica in the Globe and Mail; learn about the history of public sector unions in Canada; listen in on remarks to Canada's senior bureaucrats - all this and more in this edition of The Beacon.
In this Research Paper, Dr. Mary Brooks looks at Canada's shipbuilding industry and the damage done to the shipping industry by outdated cabotage legislation in the US and Canada.
Tariffs have not helped shipbuilding and have hurt shipping.
It's been an ongoing debate since 9-11, and a major concern to supporters of Atlantica. However, as reported in this Globe and Mail story, it now looks as though implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative will be delayed.
Mayors from around Atlantic Canada have endorsed the Atlantica concept, and have vowed to work on a plan to make it happen.
The time has come to drag Atlantic Canada back to shore. That's according to Globe and Mail columnist Neil Reynolds who says it's time to support AIMS' concept of Atlantica and that includes better cross border and transportation corridors.
A region does not a Gateway make. AIMS policy analyst Stephen Kymlicka examines the latest federal government buzz phrase 'the gateway strategy'.
Cross-border traffic may soon have a new and better screening system. The Department of Homeland Security in the US will spend more than a billion dollars on new equipment for the nation's points of entry.
Proponents for Atlantica have long suggested the growth in the goods supplied from China is good news for the region. However, recent stories out of China suggest that country's boom is causing labour shortages that may once again shift world trade routes.