Self-Governing Bands and Municipal Governments: Bridging the gap
Two of the hottest topics in Canadian public policy today are the future of local government and aboriginal self-government. AIMS, which has taken a growing interest in both, is delighted to make available this important new commentary on the relationship between these two issues.
AIMS Online March 25, 2004
Wendell Cox on HRM Development Freeze, Saint John as test case for urban reform, Charles Cirtwill asks: Are we getting results we should for our education dollar? and Where entrepreneurs rule-AIMS in Toronto Star.
Want to pull more people into city centres? Stop pushing them out to the suburbs.
While urban development freezes are clearly not the solution, many growing urban communities are wrestling with the issue of how to manage growth intelligently. It is not enough to say that anti-growth policies don't work. So what is the alternative? In this column from the Halifax Chronicle Herald, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley lays out a programme for making city centres attractive places to live and do business, so that people live there because they want to, not because they've been forced to do so by bossy bureaucrats. To find out how other cities have revived their centres by positive incentives rather than attacks on suburban property owners and lifestyles,
Let’s cure monopoly mania – AIMS in the Globe and Mail
In November of 2002, AIMS published its award winning Definitely NOT the Romanow Report, challenging the status quo in the Canadian healthcare system. In this column from the March 22, 2004 Globe and Mail, William Thorsell points to AIMS recommendations on free-standing, specialized, not-for-profit and for-profit clinics based on French or Norwegian models as a sensible Canadian healthcare option. In his column, Mr. Thorsell asks: “Why would you oppose the provision of excellent health care through a private clinic, fully paid by medicare, if the quality of that service was very good? And why would you oppose it if the cost to medicare was the same -- or less?”
Prince Edward Island needs better records on students: AIMS
The AIMS second Report Card on Atlantic canadian high schools continues to recieve media attention throughout the region weeks following its release. This report from the Summerside Journal-Pioneer examines the limited records available for study in Prince Edward Island.
Irrational rationing of home construction
Irrational rationing – Wendell Cox on HRM Development Freeze In the opinion of Urban development expert Wendell Cox, “the Halifax Regional Municipality freeze on new large-scale housing construction outside the serviced area could not be more inappropriate.” Cox, who was in Halifax in February to speak with developers, HRM officials and other interested parties says the proposed moratorium on development will hobble regional economic growth and the quality of life of households that do not yet own their own homes. In this opinion piece for the March 19 Chronicle-Herald, Cox says HRM appears to be “shooting itself in the foot.”