Atlantic Fisheries Can Learn From BC Experience
Author Laura Jones explains how the adoption of Individual Transferable Quotas revolutionised fisheries in British Columbia
Cheap pills today or new pills tomorrow?
Around the world, politicians are forcing drug companies to lower their prices. They deny the companies’ products access to hospital dispensaries, create buying cartels, reduce patent protection or any one of a host of other manoeuvres. We have frequently done this in Canada. The result, drug prices have been lowered for medical marvels already discovered. That is fine, but are we stalling discoveries? Is the cost of these policies needlessly prolonged suffering? In this column from the Halifax Chronicled Herald and Moncton Times and Transcript, AIMS President Dr. Brian Lee Crowley examines how human ingenuity in its destructive form threatens the flow of pharmaceutical innovation.
Washington Comes to AIMS: “Reaping What We Have Sown”.
Leading political commentator and White House advisor David Frum provides his unique perspective on Canada-US relations
Shooting the Messenger – Atlantic Canadian educators lay the blame on the AIMS high school report card
Atlantic Canadian educators were quick to vilify the AIMS report card on high schools calling it “a disservice” and “misleading”. What they did not do is back up their arguments with facts. In this commentary for Progress magazine, Jim Meek observes, instead of carping at critics, educators must take a closer look at the benefits of ranking our schools.
Nationalize in haste, repent at leisure
Auto insurance today an issue laden with emotion. But, as we have seen repeatedly, emotion is never a good basis on which to reconcile complex public policy issues. This is especially true when the costs of an ill-considered and hurried decision are likely to be with us for a very long time. State-run insurance schemes cannot be invoked out of thin air. There are hundreds of millions of dollars in start-up costs. AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley looks at this highly charged issue from the Atlantic Canadian perspective.
The End of the Beginning – A short update on the Stockholm healthcare revolution
Johan Hjertqvist summarises the healthcare advances made in Stockholm during the 1990s, describing the reforming process and its good results, but also new difficulties that have cropped up along the way.