Lower taxes and tax credits on capital investments are a better way to help stem the rising tide of mill closures in New Brunswick’s forestry sector. In this article from the Telegraph Journal, AIMS explains that government should also look to help workers transition to sustainable industries suffering labour shortages where their skills and experience would be readily employed.
AIMS Breakfast Briefing with Alberta's key negotiator Shawn Robbins
AIMS acting President Charles Cirtwill is highlighted at the top of group of influential guest speakers participating in an economic development conference that aims to boost economic development in Atlantic Canada. This article from the Telegraph Journal examines the conference and its goals.
Ten years ago AIMS sounded the alarm over a pending labour shortage. At the time AIMS suggested that a change in immigration policy would help. It's an issue that has only grown in importance and one which a group of NB businessmen agree needs a solution. AIMS acting President Charles Cirtwill provides a few suggetions in this Telegraph-Journal article.
This Commentary on the existing labour shortage is based on remarks delivered to the Nova Scotia Trucking Human Resource Sector Council.
This article from the Times and Transcript highlights an upcoming conference entitled Re-imagining the Atlantic Economy at which AIMS acting president Charles Cirtwill will speak.
This edition of The Beacon covers an extensive array of AIMS issues and includes media articles, Commentaries as well as events.
Charles Cirtwill, AIMS acting president, had the perfect answer when asked by the National Post to explain why a seafood plant in Prince Edward Island had to bring immigrants in from Russia to fill vacant jobs; the labour shortage.
People are working in New Brunswick. Employment is at a 30-year high. When the latest statistics were released, the Times & Transcript in Moncton called AIMS to make sense of the numbers.
In the wake of tax hikes and power rate increases, NB Premier Shawn Graham announces a new campaign to rebrand the province as a great place to live and do business. This article in the Times & Transcript asks whether the province is really the land of mixed messages and it turned to AIMS to find out.