Parents and students in New Brunswick have a new tool to help improve public education. The province is now releasing a report card of school by school results on how students do in provincial tests. In this op-ed, AIMS Senior Policy Analyst Bobby O'Keefe says it's a first step, the next is to push for local control and choice so the school community can use the information to improve student achievement.
Gas price regulation costs money and we're the ones paying. That's the conclusion of a report commissioned by the Nova Scotia government. When the same government announced it will continue gas price regulation, AIMS Senior Policy Analyst Bobby O'Keefe had to ask why. The resulting op-ed appeared in newspapers across the province.
A conference in Oromocto, Main is attracting attention from all over the region. This story in the Telegraph-Journal focuses on the story of one young entrepreneur.
Atlantica and transportation take centre stage at a meeting in New Brunswick which brings together stakeholders from all over the region.
As the global economic crisis deepens, New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham says his government may have to back away from significant tax reform. AIMS Executive Vice President says it is actually the government's tax reform programme that will help the province and to delay is wrong.
New Brunswick's Speech from the Throne hints that the government's tax reform programme may be delayed because of the deepening global economic crisis. AIMS Executive Vice President Charles Cirtwill explains that tax reform cannot wait, particularly in tough times.
The New Brunswick government is hinting it will delay its tax reform initiative because of the global meltdown. Called for comment, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley explained that the reform is needed. He says at the very least the government should begin phasing in the tax cuts.
This editorial in the Calgary Herald uses AIMS' work on non-renewable resource revenues to make its point. AIMS has repeatedly published material that tells Governments revenues from non-renewable resources (such as oil & gas) should not be squandered on day to day operations.
Christmas shopping may be keeping the stores full in Moncton, but AIMS Director of Research Ian Munro points out people may also be adjusting their spending given these troubled economic times.
The dream of equalization, of comparable services for all Canadians, has turned into the nightmare of entrenched disparity and dependence. In this op-ed, AIMS Executive Vice President Charles Cirtwill explains how equalization perpetuates the very inequities it is intended to diminish.