On August 18th, 2017, President and CEO Marco Navarro-Génie was mentioned on Radio-Canada. Read full article here: L'Institut atlantique des études de marché (AIMS) estime que la réglementation des prix de l'essence, en Atlantique, a mené à des prix plus élevés pour les consommateurs. Le groupe de réflexion conclut que les consommateurs en Nouvelle-Écosse, [...]
On August 17th, 2017, the Telegram referenced study "What's Still Missing From Your Wallet?" by President and CEO Marco Navarro-Génie: "The study by AIMS president and CEO Marco Navarro-Génie said the biggest hit to consumers is in Nova Scotia, where motorists are paying up to 2.5 cents a litre more for gasoline under government-controlled pricing [...]
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (AIMS Senior Fellow) Troy Media,14 August 2017 Let’s face it: lobsters are not easy on the eyes. The first person to discover that these hideous crustaceans were edible deserves a medal or two. At one time, lobster was the poor man’s protein that was fed mainly to prisoners. These days, however, the [...]
By Marco Navarro-Génie (AIMS President and CEO) Marco Navarro-Génie is the author of the AIMS study "What's Still Missing From Your Wallet?" Troy Media,18 August 2017 Canadian Investor,21 August 2017 Even if well-intentioned, gasoline price-controlling takes from the poor, is antithetical to properly functioning markets, and is a major price to pay for the minor [...]
What’s Still Missing from Your Wallet by Marco Navarro- Génie is an analysis that returns to a previous study done in 2009, in which the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies examined the adverse effects of gasoline price regulation in Atlantic Canada. Just as What’s Missing from Your Wallet proved, this current study demonstrates how [...]
On August 14th, 2017, Operations Manager Alex Whalen commented on the softwood lumber dispute in an interview with Adam Huras from the Telegraph Journal. Full article can be read here
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (AIMS Senior Fellow) Canadian Investment,11 August 2017 Exchange Magazine,15 August 2017 The Guardian,14 August 2017 Canada’s supply management system is a textbook case for food sovereignty. But the social contract the system represents may need to be redrafted as we head toward North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiations. Supply management is [...]
An article in The Globe and Mail references AIMS's paper “Revisiting the Minimum Wage in Atlantic Canada.” Co-authors Marco Navarro-Génie and Matthew Lau discuss the issues surrounding the " loss of training opportunities caused by minimum-wage legislation." Read the full article here. Read the AIMS study here.
By Matthew Lau (AIMS Author) and Marco Navarro-Génie (AIMS President) Daily Gleaner, 27 July 2017 Huddle, 27 July 2017 Matthew Lau and Marco Navarro-Génie are co-authors of the AIMS study "Revisiting the Minimum Wage in Atlantic Canada." High unemployment in Atlantic Canada is a long-standing problem. For over four decades, unemployment rates in the Atlantic Province have [...]
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (AIMS Senior Fellow) Food fraud is clearly becoming a noticeable issue as another company has been slapped on the wrist for violations. A court has recently fined Creation Food, A Woodbridge-based company, $25,000 for forging a kosher certificate for food that wasn’t kosher, which it delivered to Jewish summer camps. It is [...]