Atlantic Canada needs more people. With birth rates in decline and young people leaving, the region will continue to experience a shortage of workers. Fortunately, immigrants can help offset this problem. But for our investment in immigration to succeed, more must be done to encourage newcomers to stay in our region. Because immigrants [...]
By JOHN CHILIBECK Legislature Bureau Cutting corporate taxes to zero and eliminating all business subsidies are just some of the extreme ideas being floated to address New Brunswick’s bleak job situation. Statistics Canada’s latest labour market survey, released Friday, showed the province lost 5,700 jobs in February, most of them full-time. The number of people [...]
From the Sackville Tribune-Post: The report examines the overall regulatory framework, planned infrastructure projects, and emerging natural gas opportunities and technologies. Author Andrew Pickford contends in Gas Opportunities for Atlantic Canada that restrictions on the expansion of natural gas in Atlantic Canada could make electricity more expensive, less clean, and result in people outside the [...]
From CBC.ca: Atlantic Canada is lagging when it comes to exploring and extracting its natural gas resources, and that's costing the region in the long run, says a new report released Thursday. "We know for certainty that natural gas is going to continue to grow, and be an important part of the energy mix, and [...]
From the Halifax Chronicle Herald: A new report released today by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) is calling on Nova Scotia to capitalize on the opportunity to develop natural gas in the region. “It is vitally important that Atlantic Canada gets the infrastructure and regulatory settings correct to support an evolving energy mix,” [...]
From STFX.ca: Candid Conversation with John Risley takes place in the Schwartz Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. All are welcome. The event is presented by StFX, the Gerald Schwartz School of Business and the Frank McKenna Centre for Leadership. “The event is intended to engage the audience in an active discussion as Mr. Risley presents his [...]
Opportunity is Knocking – Will We Answer? Gas Opportunities in Atlantic Canada About More than Extraction Halifax – The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) today released a report on the potential for Atlantic Canada to capitalize on the golden age of gas. The report examines the overall regulatory framework, planned infrastructure projects, and emerging [...]
Our governments in Atlantic Canada spend more money than taxpayers can afford. Overspending means too much money from taxpayers goes to paying salaries instead of funding services we really need. Atlantic Canadians pay more taxes for more government workers than the national average. That's a fact costing us almost 2 billion dollars. If [...]
By David MacKinnon and Marco Navarro-Genie Even a brief glance at the economies of the Atlantic Region in early 2016 indicates that a time of reckoning is at hand. Deficits are growing and threaten to become solvency crises. Regional outmigration has slowed down but continues. Remittances from Western Canada are almost certainly falling rapidly. For [...]
This article appeared on CBC News. A Halifax-based advocacy group says Newfoundland and Labrador should cut the number of its employees to deal with its significant fiscal challenges. Marco Navarro-Genie, president and CEO of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, said that his group found that Newfoundland and Labrador has more public workers per capita [...]