Water export bans all wet
About 80,000 cubic meters of fresh water flows out of Canada every second and into the ocean or across the border. Taking some small part of it and selling it for a good price hardly seems high treason. After all, every barrel of oil and pound of zinc Canada produces and sells is gone forever. Yet those businesses are perfectly respectable, while realizing some economic benefit from a properly managed renewable resource like water, is today thought to be profoundly unCanadian.
EI ‘tightening’ a boon for young workers: report
More young people in Atlantic Canada dropped off the employment insurance (EI) rolls thanks to the federal government's “tightening” of the program's rules in the 1990s, according to a Halifax-based think-tank. As a result, fewer young Atlantic Canadians are choosing seasonal work in the construction, mining, fishing and forestry sectors. Increasing numbers are moving into long-term employment in the managerial, natural sciences and education sectors. And many are staying in high school or going on to post-secondary institutions.
Why kill EI reforms that work?
In an op-ed piece in the National Post, AIMS Communication Director Peter Fenwick sets out the findings of the Institute's new paper on the EI reforms of the mid-1990s, Beyond a hard place. He argues that the reforms have encouraged young people in Atlantic Canada to improve their education and to choose jobs with a brighter future than seasonal work. Yet the federal government's roll-back of some of the key aspects of that earlier reform puts that progress at risk.
Proposed repeal of EI reforms endangers significant progress by young Atlantic Canadians in getting education and finding jobs
Employment Insurance reform encouraged education
AIMS On-Line for mid-October 2000
Here is a brief overview of just some of AIMS' activities and publications for the first two weeks of October 2000
Solving Nova Scotia’s health care problems with Newfoundland’s money
Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm has a solution to his health-care crisis — take tens of millions of dollars from Newfoundland's transfer payments and give it to Nova Scotia. A fine strategy for Nova Scotia, but something that Newfoundland Health Minister Roger Grimes might find a tad unacceptable, says Peter Fenwick in his new Telegram column.