To be or not to be
Are workers’ rights in Canada being violated by forced membership in labour unions? With Swedish human rights lawyer Jan Södergren
The Beacon, 20 September 2007 – Special Event
Is it a violation of an employee's human rights to be forced to be a "member" of a union? That's the question answered at this special AIMS' luncheon with Swedish human rights lawyer Jan Södergren.
Technicolour Dreams and a Cold Splash of Reality: Waking up to the labour shortage and what to do about it.
This Commentary on the existing labour shortage is based on remarks delivered to the Nova Scotia Trucking Human Resource Sector Council.
The Beacon, 31 May 2007
This special edition of The Beacon focuses on an AIMS Breakfast Briefing explaining the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA) signed between British Columbia and Alberta.
Give a Plum for a Peach
In AIMS’ latest paper, Give a Plum for a Peach: Chinese Business Immigration to Atlantic Canada, author John Huang takes a specific look at what needs to be done to encourage business immigration from China. He says the region has to let more people in, let them in faster, and let them do more things when they get here.
Moving On Up – The transition from poverty to prosperity
AIMS tells Senate Committee to get out of the way, or at least not mess things up too badly.
Brain Drain or Brain Gain?
Emigration is a hot issue in rural communities around Atlantic Canada. Many a politician has fought an election on promises to bring the emigrants home. In this Commentary, Peter Fenwick, AIMS Fellow with responsibility for Fisheries and Issues in Newfoundland, takes a closer look at this philosophy.
Students Without Borders, Universities Without Illusions
They may not have liked what they heard, but the chairs of universities certainly sat up and listened. In one of the keynote addresses to the annual conference of National University Board Chairs and Secretaries (NAUBCS), AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley provided insight to the universities of the future. He warned the guardians of Canada’s post-secondary education that they need to think outside the sacred, but physical, halls of academia.
When fighting poverty, a hand up is needed more than a hand out
Atlantic Canada may fall victim to the very campaign designed to help its citizens improve their economic fortunes. Instead of giving a hand out, as suggested by Campaign 2000 (an anti poverty group), AIMS Research Fellow, Peter Fenwick is challenging policy makers and community leaders to take advantage of our region’s competitive advantages. Create more jobs and you will create prosperity says Fenwick, and, contrary to the questionable numbers cited by Campaign 2000, Fenwick concludes this is exactly what Canadians have been doing – with demonstrable positive results.
The Top Policy Challenges Facing Canada
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley was again in 2003 a guest panellist at the annual retreat of senior managers of the federal Department of Finance that took place in Cornwall, Ontario. Four panellists were set the task of painting a picture for the Finance officials of the main policy challenges facing the country.