The Beacon, 3 October 2006
Read about Atlantica in the Globe and Mail; learn about the history of public sector unions in Canada; listen in on remarks to Canada's senior bureaucrats - all this and more in this edition of The Beacon.
Promising idea with no chance
In this column published in the Calgary Herald, Todd Hirsch endorses AIMS Special Equalization Series particularly with its solution for non-renewable resource revenues.
B.C. premier wants nat’l tax cuts
When BC Premier Gordon Campbell suggested at the recent Premier's meeting to address the fiscal imbalance by relieving the tax burden, the Telegraph-Journal reporter covering the meeting knew exactly where to go for insightful comment. Fiscal imbalance is a topic AIMS has researched extensively.
AIMS suggests new approach to non-renewable resources
This article in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal provides details of the third installment in AIMS' Special Commentary Series on Equalization. The 100 Percent Solution suggests the Equalization formula should be changed to reflect the fact that non-renewable resource revenue is a asset, not a general revenue.
The 100 Percent Solution
This third installment in AIMS' Special Commentary Series on Equalization provides a fresh approach on the treatment of non-renewable resource revenues under Equalization.
The Beacon, 27 July 2006
AIMS' Special Commentary Series on Equalization wins over opinion leaders across the country, NS Premier Rodney MacDonald is told to follow the advice of AIMS, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development uses AIMS' research in its latest Economic Survey of Canada.
The 100 Percent Solution
The East proposes & the West endorses fresh approach to non-renewable resource revenues under Equalization
In the catbird’s seat: Manitoba sitting pretty in equalization sweepstakes
AIMS Special Equalization Series has gained attention across the country, including in this column in the Winnipeg Free-Press. The author provides some advice for Premier Gary Doer, but also points out some of the excesses of equalization as highlighted in the AIMS series.
Extraordinary reverie
A suggestion by Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald that he would use future oil and gas royalties for general revenue, not debt repayment, did not go down well with the editorial writers at the Halifax Chronicle-Herald. In this article they tell the Premier to listen to Brian Lee Crowley and AIMS. Similar editorials appeared in the Truro Daily News and the New Glasgow Evening News.
Too Many Cooks
This paper takes a different look at equalization and how best to create equal public services across Canada. Author Robin Neil suggests rather than using provincial differentiated transfers, equalization is better achieved through provincially differentiated taxes.