Following the Money Trail
It has been suggested recently that government subsidies to business in Atlantic Canada are considerably lower than the Canadian norm. This runs directly counter both to popular perception and to the work of a number of analysts. Both views cannot be correct, and yet getting the right answer is vital if public policy is to help rather than hinder the arrival of prosperity in this region. So who's right?
Subsidies to business as much as 29% higher in Atlantic Canada than in the rest of the country
AIMS study contradicts claims region not getting its
AIMS On-Line for mid March 2001
Here is a brief overview of just some of AIMS' activities and publications in the last few weeks
AIMS shortlisted a third time for Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Award
Road to Growth, by Senior Policy Analyst, Fred McMahon.
Blue Revolution: from fishing to farming the seas
In his regular column in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley argues that "a revolution is underway off the world's coasts. In that revolution, the old "capture fishery" - hardy men in boats battling the elements and each other for an unpredictable share of the wild fish swimming by - is waning. In its place is emerging the technology and the expertise to farm the seas in a stable, predictable way. Not agriculture, the cultivation of the land, but aquaculture, the cultivation of the waters
How to Farm the Seas II: AIMS West Coast Conference
The science, economics, and politics of aquaculture on the West Coast