AIMS // Atlantic Institute for Market Studies

Regional Cooperation in Electricity Exchanges in Atlantic Canada: Steps Toward the Creation of an Atlantic Power Pool, Bill Black commentary 'Creative Cities', Alessandro Colombo on subsidiarity, AIMS upcoming health conference 'Open for Business Creating Wealth Through Better Health'

Premiers; Growing Up or Growing Restive? Power Pool may be Atlantic Answer, Eye on the Economy - A shrinking private sector is bad news. Economic Action Plan? Just watch him. Open for Business: Creating Wealth Through Better Health. AIMS is Hiring! AIMS in the Media

AIMS new chair explains the importance of public policy, read how our education dollars are really being spent, and look at a third option for health care.

This Beacon has AIMS latest public policy magazine Ideas Matter.

This edition of The Beacon takes a quick peak at the AIMS Annual Report Card on Atlantic Canadian High Schools; reviews provincial government finances across the country, and welcome back founding President Brian Lee Crowley.

From education to health care, AIMS is having significant impact on the issues that matter most to Canadians. This edition of The Beacon explores our latest policy research.

AIMS' Special Commentary Series on Equalization wins over opinion leaders across the country, NS Premier Rodney MacDonald is told to follow the advice of AIMS, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development uses AIMS' research in its latest Economic Survey of Canada.

In this edition of The Beacon there's news on the catastrophic gap in drug coverage; a new paper that shows aquaculture is FARMING, not fishing; and a lesson in resource revenue economics.

Property tax reform advocates team up for change, PEI Electricity Policy: A Review of the PEI Energy Commission Report, Turning the tide: preparing Atlantic Canada for the challenges ahead, AIMS President & CEO Charles Cirtwill to speak at Manning Centre Networking Conference, Taxes won't fix obesity, Find revenue in cuts, not taxes

Latest AIMS commentary 'The Muskrat Falls Hydro Project: Opportunities and Risks,'Eye on the Economy: Health care monopoly 'under fire,' Upcoming AIMS events 'Who can the government trust? In Italy they think the government can trust YOU!' and 'Open for Business: Creating Wealth Through Better Health'

Join Bill Black at the Halifax Club, where he will discuss demographics in Nova Scotia. Read about Canada's wireless industry, secure and green energy, and multiculturalism.

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

It's all about power - or almost. This Beacon provides just some of the reaction to AIMS' analysis of the MOU to sell NB Power to Hydro Quebec.

This edition of The Beacon focuses on two of the most important policy issue in Canada: education and health care. You will also find information on an upcoming AIMS event and an opinion piece requested from AIMS by the Globe & Mail.

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.

Catastrophic drug coverage, equalization, government subsidies and Atlantica are all covered in this edition of The Beacon.

A little something on Oil & Gas; a touch of Atlantica; and more on fiscal imbalance - this Beacon hops around the country from Alberta to Ottawa to Atlantica.

This Beacon follows the Atlantica story from Halifax to Quebec City and beyond. Learn whether Canada has a drinking problem, read an interesting twist on the future of Canada's paper mills and decide who to listen to in the debate on health care economics.

From public education to oil & gas to the Supreme Court, this edition of The Beacon covers a variety of public policy issues.

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.