AIMS visits prestigious Heritage Foundation in Washington to discuss Health Care
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley's seminal talk - "The Top Ten Things People Believe About Canadian Health Care, But Shouldn't" continues to be a "best seller" with US audiences. On November 10, 2004 Crowley delivered this talk to an audience of informed and influential health stakeholders in Washington, DC at an event hosted by the presitgious Heritage Foundation.
Business Voice explores positive impacts of Atlantica’s deep roots
No one was surprised when the United States responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks by locking down security wherever people and commerce move. In an interview with Business Voice just after the attacks, Brian Lee Crowley, president of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, said “If there’s going to be a North American (security) perimeter, we must be on the inside.” Now, three years later, Business Voice returns to the Canada-U.S. relationship in this cover story and discovers that Canada is increasingly “inside the perimeter” and that things are not as gloomy as many think. Read this piece to see how the concepts underpinning Atlantica: geography, economic trends and trade patterns; common problems and experiences; and politics, are having a positive impact as this region copes with a new reality.
AIMS 10th Anniversary Banquet
On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, AIMS celebrated it 10th anniversary with a banquet, which featured speakers such as former United States Senator and Secretary of Defense, William Cohen and former Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney.
AIMS brings Atlantica message to Canada-US Border Trade Alliance in Chicago, as well as to the Management Committee of the Council of Atlantic Premiers
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley was invited to bring the Institute's Atlantica message to the annual conference of the Canada-US Border Trade Alliance (CanAmBTA) in Chicago on November 8th. In this speech and slide presentation, Crowley walked the delegates through the logic of Atlantica in the context of a growing movement to continental economic integration and globalization. This conference, which included one representative of each of the Canada-US border regions reaching from the Pacific to the Atlantic, underlined the extent to which the Canada-US economic relationship is increasingly being managed by the emerging regions. Atlantica is well behind some of the most advanced regions, such as PNWER and the New York-Quebec region, but it was clear from the reception given to the AIMS presentation that there is tremendous support and enthusiasm for the Atlantica concept.
Atlantica Council officially launched
At a meeting in Saint John, New Brunswick, recently, several groups joined together with AIMS to form a new Atlantica Council to promote this cross-border region and its natural economic affinities. Among the groups represented at the meeting were the Atlantic Provinces Chambers of Commerce, Enterprise Saint John, the Eastern Maine Development Corporation, Progress Corp., the Maine International Trade Center and Enterprise Greater Moncton. AIMS took advantage of the occasion to launch its new Atlantica website: www.atlantica.org. This is further evidence of the growing momentum behind this concept, which AIMS has been instrumental in popularizing.
How NOT to shorten the queues for needed surgery (NS)
To consider the issue of how NOT to shorten queues for needed surgery from the NS persepctive, read this story.