Waterfront’s Problem Said To Be Transportation Costs, Tolls
It would appear the Port of New York is more and more centred in New Jersey. This article in the New York Sun explains how increasing costs is threathening the last container terminal in Brooklyn.
Boston can learn from AIMS Fellow in Public Education Reform
Last fall, Angus McBeath, AIMS Fellow in Public Education Reform, brought a key message to Boston to help save their public schools. As the city now looks for a new superintendent of schools, it is being urged to follow McBeath's lead from his days as superintendent of Edmonton Schools.
The Beacon, March 28, 2006
A little something on Oil & Gas; a touch of Atlantica; and more on fiscal imbalance - this Beacon hops around the country from Alberta to Ottawa to Atlantica.
Senate reform will sabotage ‘New West’
A newspaper column by AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley, sparked a debate across Canada on Senate Reform. This article appeared in several major newspapers.
Get over all that oil gloom
With oil prices rising once more, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley takes a look at what it truly means. As he explains, "The point of higher prices isn’t to make people pay more for energy, but to get them to use less of it and to give companies incentives to find more."
LNG: Pipedream or opportunity?
When Atlantic Business was looking for a story on the three proposed LNG terminals for Atlantic Canada, it turned to AIMS. In this article in the March issue, AIMS' Barbara Pike shows the three projects are anything but a sure thing. Drawing from AIMS' paper "Casting a cold eye on LNG", Pike explains there are several hurdles to overcome including supply, regulatory regime and regional cooperation.