Conflicting poverty fixes
This article from the Ottawa Bureau of the Chronicle Herald discusses comments by AIMS acting President Charles Cirtwill to the Senate Committee on rural poverty showing the way to rural prosperity.
New Brunswick trying to stop population drop – But effort already under fire
In this article from The Canadian Press, AIMS Acting President, Charles Cirtwill provides insight on New Brunswick’s Population Growth Secretariat. He says lowering taxes is a more realistic approach to attract skilled workers than the smoke and mirror efforts of “a shiny brochure”.
The Beacon, 14 February 2007
Learn the three Cs of municipal government, hear the three reasons why Canada should be in Afghanistan and examine whether some family businesses are more equal than others.
Should Some Pigs Be More Equal Than Others?
A protest at Province House by hog farmers demanding more money from the provincial government prompted AIMS Director of Research to ask why. In this article that appeared in both major dailies in Nova Scotia, Ian Munro suggests farmers cannot expect to be treated any differently than any other family business.
Margo’s got the cargo, but where’s Reggie with the rig?
Policy changes could help alleviate a growing labour shortage in Atlantic Canada and encourage more people to join the workforce through trades. This op/ed by AIMS Director of Research Ian Munro suggests that one of those changes should be to immigration policy.
Factoring Ourselves Out
Labour, capital and technology - all are in short supply in Atlantic Canada as a result of public policies better suited to the late 20th century and not the early 21st.
Job market’s changing; can government adapt?
AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley's remarks to the closed door meeting of Canada's deputy ministers prompted this column by Brian Flemming in The Daily News. Flemming concludes that he hopes the Deputy Ministers were listening to what AIMS had to say and will follow through.
To prod economy, overhaul jobless benefits
A recent study by economists at Queen's University and the University of California at Santa Barbara, compared employment data in Maine and New Brunswick from 1940 to 1991. The comparison isn't flattering. The study confirms much of AIMS' research that EI hampers employment growth. The Telegraph-Journal called on AIMS to provide context for the study's findings.
Get Off the dole
Comments by AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley in a media interview about the renewal of an Employment Insurance program prompted this editorial in The National Post.
Rob from the rich? Not if you want to help the poor, especially in the Third World.
There is no mystery as to what makes business work, in the Third World or any other. International development policies that turn a blind eye to ravening and corrupt local governments, and try to make up for the damage caused by those governments by supplying capital and other services that properly functioning markets would easily provide on their own, are doomed to failure. Canada and other rich nations should concentrate our efforts on finding ways to get local governments to behave in ways that are less destructive and corrupt and more open and accountable - real, enforceable property rights, the rule of law, functioning and accesible courts, anti-corruption policies and fair and predictable regulation will go farther than western cash.