Any national drug plan must cover chronic illnesses
In this article that appeared in the Toronto Star, Brian Ferguson takes a look at a national pharmacare program and how to pay for it. It's a plan that could be used for more than just pharmaceuticals, if, as he suggests, Canadians acknowledge that while the government may pay the bills for health care, it uses our money to do so.
AIMS suggests new approach to non-renewable resources
This article in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal provides details of the third installment in AIMS' Special Commentary Series on Equalization. The 100 Percent Solution suggests the Equalization formula should be changed to reflect the fact that non-renewable resource revenue is a asset, not a general revenue.
B.C. premier wants nat’l tax cuts
When BC Premier Gordon Campbell suggested at the recent Premier's meeting to address the fiscal imbalance by relieving the tax burden, the Telegraph-Journal reporter covering the meeting knew exactly where to go for insightful comment. Fiscal imbalance is a topic AIMS has researched extensively.
The Beacon, 27 July 2006
AIMS' Special Commentary Series on Equalization wins over opinion leaders across the country, NS Premier Rodney MacDonald is told to follow the advice of AIMS, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development uses AIMS' research in its latest Economic Survey of Canada.
The 100 Percent Solution
This third installment in AIMS' Special Commentary Series on Equalization provides a fresh approach on the treatment of non-renewable resource revenues under Equalization.
The 100 Percent Solution
The East proposes & the West endorses fresh approach to non-renewable resource revenues under Equalization