Snow Daze: If HRM can’t keep its streets open, what’s it good for?
According to AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley, writing in the Halifax Herald, “snowstorms can be powerful politically because they focus attention on something everybody understands: cities keep the streets open and people are harmed and angered when they can’t get where they need to go. Scent and lawn chemical bans, long debates about whether cats should be leashed and absurd foot-dragging on cleaning up the hurricane damage in Point Pleasant Park merely leave most people bemused. But no one is unaffected when overnight your street is turned into an impassable bog and remains that way for day. Both the Chronicle Herald and Times & Transcript versions are included.
AIMS National and International Profile Continues to Build
Framing the Debate on Healthcare, Education and Canada - US Relations
Smart Growth
AIMS and internationally recognised urban development expert Wendell Cox spoke in front of an audience of Atlantic Canadians concerned about urban development issues.
Cash and Counselling: Empowering healthcare
Facing spiralling healthcare costs, the some states are embracing a program called “Cash and Counselling”. The premise is simple, but the effect is profound. The idea is to give certain Medicaid beneficiaries a cash allowance with which to purchase needed services and let people make choices about how to spend their healthcare dollars wisely. No one is forced into this program. Not everyone wants these responsibilities. But for those who choose to use it, the program is wildly popular and an unqualified success
AIMS On-Line February 5, 2004
Latest in AIMS’ “Atlantica” Series Verifies Importance of Cross-Border Synergy, and two columns from Brian Lee Crowley - Farmed Salmon: The moral panic du jour and Scientific Consensus: The first refuge of scoundrels.
Save Us From City Saviours
Over the past few years mayors, urban planners, and smart-growth and anti-suburban advocates have been arguing that wealthier cities will create investment to benefit the entire country. Civic boosters say they believe by cities keeping more of their taxes, the whole country wins. If Toronto wins, so does Truro. AIMS’ senior fellow on urban affairs asks “Do cities create wealth, or are they where most of Canada's wealth is generated?” In this commentary published in the Globe and Mail, Patrick Luciani says the distinction isn't simply a matter of economic hairsplitting.