By Sylvain Charlebois (AIMS Senior Fellow) Some Canadians detest going to the grocery store. It’s repetitive, tiring, and quite unpleasant at times, especially when the store is busy. Picking up groceries and lugging them back home is work, something most would rather avoid. On the other hand, many of us do enjoy visiting food stores [...]
By Sylvain Charlebois (AIMS Senior Fellow) Apparently, Canada is going meatless, unless you are a white older male, that is. Well, that may be a slight exaggeration, as many Canadians still need a regular meat fix. In fact, many see meat consumption as one of the pleasures in life, as well as a necessary part [...]
On November 1st, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, the Canadian Constitutional Foundation, and the Montreal Economic Institute joined together to organize a one day conference in Ottawa on interprovincial trade in Canada. The first of it's kind, this event filled the otherwise absent void regarding significant dialogue on the issue of interprovincial trade. [...]
RECAP: We are very grateful to all our patrons, sponsors and supporters for helping make our 2018 Chairman’s Dinner on October 22nd a bonafide success! Nearly every chair was filled at this premiere event. On behalf of the entire AIMS Team, thank you to everyone who helped make this happen. See pictures from the evening below: [...]
By Sylvain Charlebois (AIMS Senior Fellow) Within a year, single-use plastics and excess packaging have become public enemy number 1. Everyone is talking about how our lives are overrun by too much plastic. Just recently, a Greenpeace-led audit looked at waterways waste and companies involved. Much of the plastic trash cleaned up from Canadian shorelines [...]
By Sylvain Charlebois (AIMS Senior Fellow) Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, recently notified its leafy green suppliers that they will need to use blockchain by the end of next year. Walmart is banking on its relationship with IBM to put pressure on the entire sector to comply to what consumers want from the [...]
Platform for New Brunswick: Public Policies for Growth and Prosperity raises discussion of public policy reform. Author Marco Navarro-Génie, President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, makes the case for more disciplined fiscal stewardship, better use of market mechanisms in health care, developing New Brunswick’s energy resources, and evidence-based education policy. New Brunswick will [...]
BY Sylvain Charlebois (AIMS Senior Fellow) Troy Media, 09 August 2018 Calgary's Business, 28 August 2018 We seem to be living in an era in which the pleasure of eating is quite simply overpowered by values-based narratives in food consumption. And this is happening at an astonishing pace. Vegetarianism and veganism are both coming into [...]
A series of blog posts written by SMU research fellow Azad Haider for the AIMS website were cited in the Halifax Star. These submissions detail the significant impact that students from Saudi rabia have on Atlantic Canada, referenced due to recent “training, scholarships and fellowships” for Saudi students in Canada becoming halted. Read the full article [...]
By MARCO NAVARRO-GÉNIE (AIMS President and CEO) and ALEX WHALEN (AIMS Operations Manager and Author) Troy Media, 02 August 2018 The Guardian, 03 August 2018 Huddle, 08 August 2018 Business Vancouver, 15 August 2018 Opinions vary as to whether the meeting of Canada’s premiers in mid-July in St. Andrews, N.B., was a success. The expectations [...]
