Beacon: June 27, 2012
Insights from the Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney- An AIMS Success, EI: What's Left To Do? Building a Bigger Tent, Fishing for Change, AIMS in the Media
Beacon: May 3, 2012
The special AIMS Luncheon with Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney is 60% sold out, Picard on Health- Mixed Medicine and Messages, Robing Peter to Pay...Peter? Financial Reality is Needed in Maritime Canada, An Atlantic Canadian Perspective on the Drummond Report, AIMS is looking to hire a Research and Operations Manager, the AIMS on Campus Student Fellowship Application Deadline Extended, AIMS in the Media.
EI: what’s left to do
The angst over an assault on seasonal industries has been overblown since towns with a high percentage of seasonal work would be almost totally unaffected by the new rules.
Mayor OK with giving people equalization payments
AIMS' idea of giving federal equalization payments directly to individuals, instead of provincial or municipal governments, has some merit, according to CBRM Mayor John Morgan.
Home of the brave?
AIMS Board Chair John Risley asks the bold question: are Canadians brave enough to allow our First Nations to be a truly independent community within Canada?
Budget Season
Bill Black of New Start Nova Scotia offers his thoughts on what are the most important issues that need to be addressed in the Nova Scotia budget.
The Beacon – 26 January 2012
AIMS contributors discuss Healthy Alternatives for our health care system, will Generation Y ever get that special feeling for Atlantic Canada?, Canada's system of regional subsidies has to change, why minimum wage increases are a costly way to make little progress, the importance of immigration, and why big economic players need remedying policies.
Good for you, if you have a job (and keep it)
AIMS Research Intern Andreas Korfmann explains how raising the minimum wage can have unintended consequences such as higher prices and unemployment rates.
Health plan slammed
As NS Premier Dexter opposes the federal plan to pay health transfers to the provinces on a per capita basis, AIMS points out there is already unequal health care, but this plan will create more divergence.
Monica Townson: Finance Ministers bungled pension reform when they chose PRPPs over Big CPP
Harry Koza's AIMS' Commentary, "Doin' the PRPP Walk" is contrasted with a CCPA report which prefers a mandatory, government Big CPP.