Halifax Port Authority president Karen Oldfield says Halifax’s goal is to capture more of this Suez traffic, but it will require considerable effort. However, she says it will be worth it. This article in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald outlines what's happening globally that is affecting Atlantica regionally.
In this story in the Telegraph-Journal the head of McCain Foods says the potential for world-class economic growth could be unlocked with better infrastructure. AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley points out it's not just better roads, but more skilled workers that are needed.
A new report from the Asian-Pacific Foundation of Canada says Halifax is "set to become Canada's back door to Asia." The conclusion mirrors research published by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies. This article in The National Post explains how congestion on the west coast will help traffic on the east.
Atlantica’s success will depend on connections: Business connections, physical connections and transportation connections.
How Canada's Equalization program over-equalizes. How the fishery needs to be rationalized. How the Newfoundland government is hampering business in that province. And how agriculture needs to work in today's world, not yesterday's. All this and more in this edition of The Beacon.
In this Commentary, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley explains the next steps for Atlantica. In the keynote speech to the Halifax Shipping Association, Crowley says if we fail to make Atlantica work, the region will be left behind.
Reaching Atlantica: Business without Borders
In his fortnightly column, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley defines Atlantica. He explains it's not about an imaginery bogeyman ready to takeover the region, but about trade. He writes: "The exchanges between Vermont and Nova Scotia or New Hampshire and Newfoundland are hardly worth mentioning. But we are about to become a major doorway for the trade between Asia and the North American heartland. It is not so much the products of Atlantica that are straining to cross the border, but the industrial might of China, India and the Asian Tigers."
In his fortnightly column in the Moncton Times-Transcript, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley explains that Atlantica isn't the bogeyman, but an opportunity for trade. But it's not about trade between New Brunswick and the northeastern United States, it's about Asia and the North American heartland.
In this guest commentary in the Moncton Times & Transcript, writer Charles Moore embraces AIMS' concept of Atlantica. As he puts it, "I think the Atlantica initiative represents the sort of innovative thinking it will take to extract Atlantic Canada from its century-plus downward spiral of what AIMS' Brian Crowley calls genteel decline."