Tolls roads – coming soon to an interchange near you
Until quite recently, I never thought I’d see the day when Maritime roads would fall into private hands. This is a region where politicians know they must deliver big-time largesse. And they know their voters are slow to warm to new ideas.
Power to the people key to solving natives’ problems
This AIMS commentary criticises the 1997 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples report. While painting an appaling picture of plight of aboriginals, the commission fails to offer anything like an adequate "solution".
Energizing New Brunswick Power
In Energizing New Brunswick Power, AIMS author Thomas Tucker provides analysis of NB Power's submission to the NB Legislative Committee on Crown Corporations.
Nouvelle étude fait une mise en garde
Hausse possible des tarifs d'Energie NB en 1997
Fear and loathing on the pipeline route
AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley on the 1997 debate over the natural gas pipeline route in eastern Canada.
New Study Warns of NB Power Rate Increase in 1997
Energizing New Brunswick Power: A Brighter Future for Consumers and Taxpayers
Ottawa’s reforms no way to run a port
If you’re excited about the economic potential for our major ports, such as Halifax and Saint John, you should be mad as hell right now. Ottawa is missing a golden opportunity to give our ports the kind of structure that has helped turn CN from basketcase into economic powerhouse. Instead, we’re in line for business pretty much as usual in the never-never land of government dominated businesses.
Healing the Atlantic Fishery:
New Book Examines How Property Rights Can Help
Taking Ownership
Taking Ownership: Property Rights and Fishery Management on the Atlantic Coast, features contributions from some of the world's foremost fisheries experts, the book examines Canada current fisheries regime - based chiefly on common property, and government regulations and enforcement - and the emerging alternative, based on the establishment of property rights in the fisheries, usually through individual transferable quotas.
Gassing up the welfare trap machine
Ottawa-bashing, long a favourite local sport, is about to be given a new lease on life by offshore natural gas. At least that is where we seem to be headed in the controversy about how the tax revenues from this natural resource should be shared between Ottawa and Nova Scotia.