Reaching Out – Building Up:
A 25 per cent growth strategy for the Port of Halifax
Reaching Out
The Port of Halifax could see a 25 per cent increase in traffic with a more targeted transload strategy, which is about 132,000 more TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) per year, or roughly 66,000 more containers. In this third paper of the AIMS Atlantica Ports Series, authors Jim Frost and Stephen Kymlicka examine what needs to be done to grow port traffic by increasing transload facilities.
Imagine, We Want Modern Drugs and Equipment
In this look from the inside, AIMS Fellow on Health Care Policy David Zitner points out not all Nova Scotians have equal access to modern equipment or expensive care. He suggests government needs to re-examine its role as insurer and accept that as the insurer it should pay for necessary but expensive care, even if it means that some people would have to pay for services they can afford.
Taking the Road to Self-Sufficiency
There can be no half measures. Guest Commentary from New Brunswick business leader on the provincial government's self-sufficiency plan.
Our future: Grey and gloomy
A decade ago AIMS warned of pending problems caused by Atlantic Canada's ageing and declining population. Now the latest Statistic Canada report supports AIMS original research. The Halifax Chronicle-Herald turned to AIMS to review some of the public policy options for a populat turning grey.
NB Population woes call for new strategies
For a decade, AIMS has warned of a pending labour shortage in Atlantic Canada caused by a declining and ageing population. The latest Statistics Canada report supports the AIMS' research, and other institutes are following suit. In this news article, AIMS Director of Research Ian Munro explains what needs to be done.