April 2017
AIMS releases paper on New Brunswick tuition program
Un message en français suit. HALIFAX, NS – The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) released this morning a public policy study about low-income tuition subsidies. Post-Secondary Tuition and Low-Income Access discusses New Brunswick's Tuition [...]
Tuition Access Bursary is unsound public policy
By PATRICK WEBBER (Research Associate) Sheldon MacLeod Show, News 95.7 25 April 2017 Telegraph-Journal, 26 April 2017 Troy Media, 26 April 2017 CBC News New Brunswick, 27 April 2017 Last year, New Brunswick's government launched the [...]
Post-Secondary Tuition and Low-Income Access
© UNB. Post-Secondary Tuition and Low-Income Access discusses New Brunswick's Tuition Access Bursary program, which covers college and university tuition for the children of families earning under $60,000 per year. Author Patrick Webber's paper reviews [...]
Trump’s Milk Shake
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (Senior Fellow) Globe and Mail, 24 April 2017 Times Colonist, 26 April 2017 Now that supply management is officially on Trump’s radar, dairy farmers are holding their collective breath. For years they [...]
Where is Nova Scotia Department of Health?
By DAVID ZITNER (AIMS Senior Fellow) Modern health systems enable convenient health care by bringing medical skills and advice to patients. “Last year half of consultations offered by Kaiser Permanente, an American health care organization, were not [...]
From milk management to milk markets
By JACKSON DOUGHART (Research Coordinator) Journal Pioneer, 21 April 2017 Many Atlantic Canadians subscribe to the "buy local" movement, which encourages consumers to purchase food that was grown near their own communities. Some people argue [...]