School ratings a welcome tool
We say: N.B. should adopt and encourage the approach to evaluating the education system that the Atlantic Institute of Market Studies has initiated
Report takes aim at high schools
In a strong editorial endorsement of AIMS' new high school report card, Grading Our Future, the Editorial Board of the St. John’s Telegram gently chides the report’s critics in the educational establishment for their “ostrich-like” attitude in counselling parents to refuse even to read the document. And how should Newfoundlanders and Atlantic Canadians regard the High School Report Card? The editorial argues that, …the study, like or lump it, is an extensive and expensive effort, and the think-tank should be congratulated for its initiative. There is great value in talking about what makes schools good or bad, and looking at ways that various schools can learn about their comparative strengths and weaknesses, and, as part of that, how they can improve. A most AIMS-like conclusion…
AIMS Releases Report Card On Atlantic High Schools
“A powerful tool in understanding what is going on in our schools.” – Brian Lee Crowley, President, AIMS
AIMS On-Line for early March 2003
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.
ACOA Watch Number 1 – Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! The Numbers Game
ACOA Watch is a new publication of AIMS that is intended to provide an independent and critical analysis of the efforts and activities of ACOA. Taxpaers will be able to look to this regular AIMS' series for the information they need for an informed debate about the relative merits of this taxpayer-funded program and its real contribution to the region's economic well being.
Regulation not answer to high fuel prices
As AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley writes in his bi-monthly newspaper column, everyone hates paying high prices for gasoline and heating oil. They hit the poor harder than everybody else; they wreak havoc with family and business budgets. Perhaps worst of all, they seem to happen without rhyme or reason, like bolts of lightning out of a clear winter sky. Quite understandably, then, these price rises provoke fear, anger and suspicion of the oil and gas companies that are their authors. But before we rush off to embrace the responses that many people propose to solve this problem, we had better be sure exactly what the problem is and what all the consequences would be of, say, letting governments fix the price of gas.
Health deal delays real reforms: Our politicians would do well to look at the Swedes, who made their model work
Two articles in recent days have sung the praises of AIMS' work in communicating to Canadian audiences Sweden's success in bringing consumer choice and accountability to publicly-funded health care. And in Alberta, Edmonton Journal columnist and National Post Editorial Board member Lorne Gunter also congratulates AIMS and other policy institutes that have worked to bring the Swedish story to Canada. According to Gunter, The point is, there are not merely two models of health care -- a state monopoly or laissez-faire. There are dozens of models around the world that successfully combine public and private elements, while increasing patient choice and service, and keeping costs in check. It is well past time our politicians considered them.
Stockholm syndrome
Two articles in recent days have sung the praises of AIMS' work in communicating to Canadian audiences Sweden's success in bringing consumer choice and accountability to publicly-funded health care. William Watson, editorializing in the Financial Post, congratulated AIMS, writing: The Swedes have grasped the crucial point that still escapes so many Canadian health-care decision-makers, namely, that the state can purchase health care for all without providing health care for anyone.
Brian Lee Crowley discusses federal budget on CBC
John Manley brought down his first budget as Minister of Finance on February 18, 2003. After a decade of wrestling with the deficit, the Liberals government has returned to more agressive spending. This interview with Brian Lee Crowley, President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and Bruce Campbell, the Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives was heard on the CBC Radio One program “The Current” on February 18, 2003.
New thinking key to Newfoundland prosperity
Newfoundland & Labrador’s Royal Commission on Renewing and Strengthening our Place in Canada is popularly known as the Blame Canada Commission. In this column AIMS President, Brian Lee Crowley, outlines how Ottawa could significantly address the areas where it does, in fact, bear an important share of the blame for Newfoundland’s woes.