AIMS founding president on loan to Ottawa:
Cirtwill named Acting President
Brian Lee Crowley speaks out on the insanity of disincentives in a short-staffed environment
When Atlantic Business Magazine launched an on-line discussion forum, it asked AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley to be the first expert. Editor Dawn Chafe said Crowley's ability to generate discussion on important issue seemed the natural choice to launch this open forum on public policy.
Help Wanted:
AIMS Senior Policy Analyst Stephen Kymlicka discusses the labour shortage issue
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.
Radical chic meets monopoly power
AIMS looks at the public sector trade union movement in Canada, and points out a change is going to have to come.
If many hands make light work, get ready for some very heavy lifting
AIMS provides insight to federal deputy ministers on Canada's pending labour shortage.
Moody’s gives boost to province’s credit rating
When Moody's upgraded Nova Scotia's credit rating, the Chronicle-Herald turned to AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley to explain what the upgrade actually means. He pointed out that while it shows there is some improvement, it doesn't mean the province's financnes are being well-managed from the point of view of taxpayers.
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.
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.
The Beacon, 30 June 2006
How Canada's Equalization program over-equalizes. How the fishery needs to be rationalized. How the Newfoundland government is hampering business in that province. And how agriculture needs to work in today's world, not yesterday's. All this and more in this edition of The Beacon.