March 2017
A bank called Costco
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (AIMS Senior Fellow) Troy Media, March 9, 2017 The Guardian, March 9, 2017 Summary: Costco now has 10% of the food retailing market in Canada, and is going to charge you more to [...]
Creditors will be chief audience for N.L. budget
By ED HOLLETT (AIMS Senior Fellow) The Telegram, March 13, 2017 Troy Media, March 13, 2017 Battlefords News-Optimist, March 18, 2017 In setting its budget for 2017, Newfoundland and Labrador needs to correct a public finance crisis, ushered [...]
Marco Navarro-Génie speaks with Ben Mulroney on CTV’s Your Morning
Why immigration is desperately needed in Atlantic Canada - Marco Navarro-Genie, President & CEO, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), discusses why people aren’t staying in or moving to Atlantic Canada. Perfect Atlantic Storm Many Atlantic [...]
Manitoba should cut 36,000 civil service jobs, think-tank says
CBC News quoting AIMS President Marco Navarro-Génie By CBC News • CBC.ca, 07 March 2017 A Winnipeg-based think-tank recommends shrinking Manitoba's civil service workforce by about 36,000 jobs because it says the sector is too big for [...]
Marco Navarro-Génie speaking with CBC News Manitoba
On March 7, 2017, AIMS CEO Marco Navarro-Génie was interviewed by CBC News Manitoba about the newly released study published jointly by The Frontier Centre for Public Policy and the Atlantic Institute [...]
Only a growth agenda will make Island prosper
By JACKSON DOUGHART (AIMS Research Coordinator) The Journal-Pioneer, March 2, 2017 The Charlottetown Guardian, March 7, 2017 Summary: More outside capital and greater productivity are the keys to greater prosperity on Prince Edward Island. With the greatest [...]