User Fees for Health Care in Sweden
Johan Hjertqvist discusses the utility and effects of user fees in the Swedish health care system. The investigation explores several different aspects of health care including: general practitioners, dental services, elderly care and pharmaceuticals.
Fishing For EI; How The Fishing Industry Paralyses Rural Newfoundland
Peter Fenwick, former AIMS Director of Communications, has revised this commentary piece, originally published in August 2001. In it he argues that Newfoundland needs to replace its “stamp up” fishery - a fishery designed to provide enough work to secure EI for the workers - with a fishery that is sustainable and productive. In order to achieve that one hundred fish plants will have to close. More to the point, these plants must close at the earliest possible moment in order to give rural Newfoundlanders a chance to rebuild. To allow the closures to happen gradually as plant workers retire (apparently the current strategy of the Newfoundland government) will simply mean that new endeavours will not have the workforce necessary for development - denying rural Newfoundland the more promising future such new endeavours could provide.
Award-Winning Institutes Release New Equalization Series
Equalization: Welfare Trap or Helping Hand? based on Montreal Conference
What’s natural gas done for us lately?
In his latest newspaper column, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley, looks at the high expectations of taxpayers, workers and businesses as they anxiously await the huge benefits they expect to see flow from natural gas off our shores. He argues that they have been disappointed both because they don't understand what to look for, and because they have unrealistic expectations of what can be accomplished in the very short time the industry has existed here. Expecting immediate and infinite returns from gas is not the way to ensure success, argues Crowley, instead we must have reasonable expectations of the resource, and infinite expectations of ourselves. Publication: CHH & MTT, April 24, 2002
Smart Growth for a Smart City: A New Economic Vision for Halifax
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley explains why the one thing that most dominates the regional urban landscape now is technology, and how this has tremendous effects on the future shape of cities.
Romanow, Kirby, recognise AIMS as thought leader in national health care debate
Recognition continues to roll in for AIMS’ major contribution to the national health care debate