In this article for the Citizen Centre Report Magazine, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley makes outlines AIMS’ intellectual contributions to Atlantic Canada’s quiet economic revolution.
ACOA Watch is a new publication of AIMS that is intended to provide an independent and critical analysis of the efforts and activities of ACOA. Taxpaers will be able to look to this regular AIMS' series for the information they need for an informed debate about the relative merits of this taxpayer-funded program and its real contribution to the region's economic well being.
John Manley brought down his first budget as Minister of Finance on February 18, 2003. After a decade of wrestling with the deficit, the Liberals government has returned to more agressive spending. This interview with Brian Lee Crowley, President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and Bruce Campbell, the Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives was heard on the CBC Radio One program “The Current” on February 18, 2003.
Newfoundland & Labrador’s Royal Commission on Renewing and Strengthening our Place in Canada is popularly known as the Blame Canada Commission. In this column AIMS President, Brian Lee Crowley, outlines how Ottawa could significantly address the areas where it does, in fact, bear an important share of the blame for Newfoundland’s woes.
New thinking key to Newfoundland prosperity, an excerpt from Mark Milke’s new book, Tax Me I’m Canadian – Your Money and How Politicians Spend It and Australia looks to AIMS for analysis of Equalization.
To continue to progress, humanity needs more economic growth, not less, and needs it to occur in ways that allow us to husband our resources, preserving their value for not only ourselves but future generations. Where hunger continues to be a problem, for example, it is due almost exclusively to two factors. One is politics and poor quality institutions that prevent investment in land, and the second is standards of living too low to allow access to the very latest in modern technology. However, as AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley told the annual meeting of the Nova Scotia Forest Products Association recently, there are very specific circumstances and institutions that are necessary for this creative mixing of human intelligence and natural capital to take place as quickly and on as broad a scale as is needed.
Late last year the final report of the Independent Review of Commonwealth–State Funding was released in Australia. This review, sponsored by three state governments in Australia, was designed to review the current system of federal-state transfers in terms of economic efficiency, equity, and simplicity and transparency. In searching for analysis of comparative models of fiscal equalization between federal and state governments in a federation, the review commissioners looked to AIMS and our award winning equalization initiative. Specifically, they cited “Equalization Revisited” by Nobel Laureate James Buchanan, as it was presented during an event in Montreal that AIMS co-sponsored with the Montreal Economic Institute and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg.
Author and historian Jack Granatstein's perspective on what needs to be done to sustain the military's ability to meet domestic and international responsibilities
Rags to Riches How "The Regions" can lead Canada's productivity growth, Dr. Michael MacDonald on how the New Cape Breton starts at home, AIMS at Acadia University on the meaning of sustainable development and Brian Lee Crowley on proportional representation.
AIMS’ response to the TD Forum on Canada’s Standard of Living