This Beacon follows the Atlantica story from Halifax to Quebec City and beyond. Learn whether Canada has a drinking problem, read an interesting twist on the future of Canada's paper mills and decide who to listen to in the debate on health care economics.
The 2nd annual speakers series, held in Toronto at Grano Restaurant, explores the potential and limits of the use of American power in the Middle East and the prospects of democraticization for the region. The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies has been a partner in the Grano Series since its inception.
This article identifies some of the critical limitations and impediments to further growth of short sea services in Canada and in transborder trade with the US, and identifies a number of questions policymakers need to answer. The article was prepared for the Study Group on Transportation, Logistics and Supply Chain Management sponsored by the PanAmerican Partnership for Business Education. The author, Dr. Mary Brooks, is with Dalhousie University and the article is based on work she conducted prior to 2005.
A key component to the future opportunity of Atlantica is marine transportation through the port of Halifax. The traffic will come from Asia. This story from Traffic World provides insight of what is happening in China, and illustrates the expected growth in traffic from that country.
A move in California to add air pollution fees to the cost of each container landing in state's largest port, has some wondering whether it will just drive business east. This article from The Journal of Commerce explains what is planned.
Remarks by AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley to a provincial transportation conference in Truro generated debate, talk and some in-depth thought. Using Crowley's Atlantica presentation as its basis, this editorial in the Truro Daily News told people the time for action is now, or the opportunities will be lost.
In this inaugural edition of Atlantica: the International Northeast Economic Region rethink geography and make North America's east coast the first stop for Asian container traffic, not the west coast. Read about the megaships and how New York needs Halifax to handle the post-Panamax vessels. And find out how the US Congress is building Main Street Atlantica.
Atlantica and the role of global trading patterns in the future of the region were the topic for a provincial transportation conference in Truro, Nova Scotia. In this article in the Truro Daily News, readers are asked to accept a revolution in geographic thought.
Challenging the conventional, thinking outside the box, driving for solutions. According to this newspaper account of remarks made by the president of AIMS, Brian Lee Crowley did all three during his presentation to a transportation conference in Truro, Nova Scotia.
While Canadians remain fixated on softwood lumber, a minor trade irritant affecting the equivalent of a few days’ cross-border trade each year, the real challenges in our relations with the United States arise from our limited imaginations. In his fortnightly column, Brian Lee Crowley examines Canada's economic relations with the US and suggests it is in our national interest to keep the momentum of deepening integration moving forward.