Regional newspapers around Atlantic Canada made the AIMS Annual Report Card on Atlantic Canadian High Schools front page news. This story in New Glasgow shows educators are beginning to use the information in the report to improve their schools.
This is an edited excerpt from the speech by former Governor Jeb Bush to AIMS' 15th Anniversary event in Moncton. Bush uses his successful experience in Florida to provide tips on improving public education.
In this op-ed in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, AIMS' author Don McIvar suggests complex provincial budgets should be clear, concise and transparent. Something he says they have been severely lacking in the past decade or so.
Former AIMS policy analyst Fred McMahon is grilled about his latest research on onerous regulatory regime. He finds Nova Scotia at the back of the pack in mining.
The first place win by a rural Cape Breton hish school in AIMS annual report card for the third year in a row made front page headlines in Cape Breton.
This editorial in The Daily Press in north Ontario uses AIMS research material to talk about regional development and mining.
AIMS President & CEO Charles Cirtwill says he is in favour of a proposal new container terminal for Melfrod in Nova Scotia, but only it if is completely privately funded.
Federal Minister Keith Ashfield is forced to defend Ottawa's Atlantic Gateway strategy after AIMS pointed out the plan should be truly regional and not just picking ways to spend money from four different provincial lists.
This analysis of New Brunswick's 2010 budget uses AIMS' research and commentary to say the provincial government is heading in the right direction.
Macleans magazine called on AIMS president Charles Cirtwill to explain why some areas of the country appear cushioned from the recession.