The Big Squeeze: Debt & Demographics – why it matters now
This Commentary provides food for thought on our looming debt and demographic squeeze.
Post Secondary Education: Government, Tuition, and Millennials
This Commentary explains why post secondary education should be about serving students not sustaining institutions.
N.B. population meets first benchmark
This article from the Times & Transcript looks at the progress New Brunswick has made in achieving its self imposed benchmark in regards to population growth. It draws on AIMS' research to explain the population crunch.
Who Could Have Seen THAT Coming?
Economist Don McIver takes a look at the global economic meltdown, the recovery and the consequences.
John Risley appointed Chair of AIMS Board of Directors
Halifax – The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) today announced the appointment of well-known Canadian entrepreneur John Risley as the new chair of its Board of Directors. Risley, co-founder and chairman of Clearwater Fine Foods, takes over from John F. Irving who stepped down earlier this year.Risley admits he doesn’t take on such voluntary [...]
The Beacon — 11 March 2010
Take in AIMS' event with Tom Flanagan, author of "Beyond the Indian Act".
N.B.’s average 2009 wage increase was 1.5 per cent, survey says
A new survey by CRA in Halifax shows a slim majority of Maritimers received pay raises in the last year. AIMS research manager Bobby O'Keefe was asked to comment on the survey for this story in the Telegraph Journal.
An Economic Future with Smaller Numbers
Atlantic Canada has fewer people than projected just a decade ago, and more of us are in the older demographic. In other words we are fewer than expected and older than expected. This paper is an update of AIMS' research more than a decade ago that first pointed to the looming population crunch
The future of unions: Are they a dying breed?
Commentary based on national radio interview with AIMS Executive Vice President Charles Cirtwill.
Times they are a changin’ . . How demographic reality is reshaping education
Our population is getting older. This Commentary, based on a talk to the Canadian Education Association, examines how that fact will impact education policy.