Commodities are driving the economies of once poor Canadian provinces like Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador. AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley says this reallighnment of economies within Canada is going to exacerbate the growing labour shortage.
When the latest Statistics Canada report indicated the number of civil servants had dropped in the province, most treated it as a bad thing. But AIMS Director of Research Ian Munro points out that a drop in the number of civil servants is actually a good thing.
This editorial in The National Post draws on AIMS depth of research to make the point that equalization is doing more harm to Canada than good.
For more than a decade AIMS has been publishing research that shows Canada's equalization programme is anything but equal. Now as Ontario faces the brink of becoming an equalization receiving province, others are finally understanding. This column in The National Post uses AIMS' research to make its point.
In this front page story, AIMS Director of Research Ian Munro points out that we aren't contributing to the region's long term success by trying to make businesses successful using taxpayers dollars.
This Commentary explains why lagging economis in Canada aren't catching up to the advanced ones because of the very programmes aimed at giving them a helping hand.
This edition of The Beacon takes a quick peak at the AIMS Annual Report Card on Atlantic Canadian High Schools; reviews provincial government finances across the country, and welcome back founding President Brian Lee Crowley.
Welcome AIMS's newest Senior Fellow, David MacKinnon, and learn what he has to say about killing the Golden Goose through equalization. Population change, equalization and property tax are just some of the topics in this edition.
In his regular column in The Globe and Mail, Neil Reynolds uses a recent speech by AIMS Sernior Fellow in Fairness in Confederation David MacKinnon to highlight the inequality of equalization.
AIMS appoints MacKinnon as Senior Fellow