AIMS // Atlantic Institute for Market Studies

AIMS invites you to join us at a special AIMS Luncheon featuring insights from the Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney.

Take in AIMS' event with Tom Flanagan, author of "Beyond the Indian Act".

This edition of the Beacon explores issues ranging from urban development to the Atlantic Gateway to education.

This issue of The Beacon covers the country from coast to coast, from BC`s trade agreement with Alberta to Atlantica`s trade with India.

Reaching consensus - AIMS invites discussion through the Canadian Health Care Consensus Group; AIMS tackles the catastrophic drug coverage problem in Atlantic Canada; and the institute publishes two new papers.

Are we forgoing economic opportunities because of irrational fears of hypothetical risks? Can government make risk disappear? And what are the real costs and benefits of the widespread belief that regulation can tame risk? If, like us, you think these questions are some of the most important facing Canada today, we hope you'll join us for this upcoming conference in Toronto where the use of regulation to manage risk will be explored. We have excellent international speakers joining us and we believe this event will be useful as we move forward in ongoing policy discussion with today government leaders.

AIMS Releases first Report Card On Atlantic High Schools, Peter Fenwick on Newfoundland's Failed Welfare Reform, Atlantic Canada and the Canada - US Border of the Future, Immigrants and Atlantic Canada, AIMS before Commons Committee and AIMS' Swedish health care project garners national attention.

AIMS invites you to join us at a special Luncheon featuring insights from the Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney.

AIMS Director of Research Don McIver recommends the elimination of MLA pensions in Nova Scotia. MP Stephane Dion discusses the future of Canada's political system. AIMS highlights an FCPP paper on saying goodbye to forced funding of union advertising. Livio Di Matteo assesses the effectiveness of public health programs in Canada. Bill Black chases the jobs, and Don McIver discusses how governments cling to transfer payments.

AIMS latest paper on the shrinking population shows we are fewer and older than first forecast. There's also an invitation to join the conversation about how Nova Scotia should control its deficit.

Is it a violation of an employee's human rights to be forced to be a "member" of a union? That's the question answered at this special AIMS' luncheon with Swedish human rights lawyer Jan Södergren.

How Canada's Equalization program over-equalizes. How the fishery needs to be rationalized. How the Newfoundland government is hampering business in that province. And how agriculture needs to work in today's world, not yesterday's. All this and more in this edition of The Beacon.

In this edition of The Beacon, ignore the hype and look at the true opportunity LNG provides the region, consider the crisis that could soon face the NB forest industry, understand why the regulation of gasoline prices hurts consumer, and examine the regulation of land use and its cost to consumers, particularly low income families.

An invitation to hear Edmonton Superintendent of Schools to speak at an AIMS event, the debate over nationalized auto insurance and Brian Lee Crowley on the future of work in Nova Scotia.