NB Premier Shawn Graham says 'there are a number of tools and instruments that we can use to provide financial assistance' to businesses that want to establish operations in New Brunswick. However, as AIMS acting president Charles Cirtwill suggests playing the cash card isn't always a good thing.
In this Op/Ed that appeared in The Charlottetown Guardian, AIMS incoming Director of Research Ian Munro suggests Ireland and Prince Edward Island have much in common. He says when addressing the question of encouraging young entrepreneurs to stay on the Island, the government should look to the Celtic tiger.
AIMS Senior Policy Analyst Stephen Kymlicka discusses the labour shortage issue
AIMS provides insight to federal deputy ministers on Canada's pending labour shortage.
Industry cannot get locked into always doing things the way they have been done, but should adapt to the new reality. AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley used the agriculture industry as an example during a luncheon address to an economic conference in the Annapolis Valley region of Nova Scotia. His remarks were featured in the provincial edition of The Chronicle-Herald.
In this edition of The Beacon there's news on the catastrophic gap in drug coverage; a new paper that shows aquaculture is FARMING, not fishing; and a lesson in resource revenue economics.
When Rodney MacDonald won the Nova Scotia Tory leadership race and became the Premier-designate of the province, the national media wanted some insight. The National Post turned to AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley.
It's just days from the federal election, days of political promises and political finger-pointing. In this series of commentaries, AIMS lays out the public policy issues that will mean make a difference in Atlantic Canada. It is not a wish list for handouts or preferential treatment. Collectively they are a request that whoever forms the new government thoroughly scrutinize and quantify the actual effects of existing policies. We believe that such an examination will lead to the same conclusions that many authors published by AIMS have arrived at over the past several years.
Numerous papers produced for AIMS have indicated that grants from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) do little to help the economy in Atlantic Canada. When Conservative Leader Stephen Harper changed his stance on ACOA, the media turned to AIMS for comment.
In this first Beacon of the 2006 season, learn about the AIMS Angus McBeath North American Tour titled "Saving Our Public Schools", read how the ports in Atlantica can be tomorrow's successful ports, and consider whether tax cuts, not bailouts are a better way to deal with the closure of a paper mill.