Dr. Hamm misdiagnoses our health-care ailment
According to a Dalhousie study Nova Scotia's health indicators are worse than those of many other provinces. That, says Dr. Hamm, means Nova Scotia should get more - up to 15 per cent more - in health-care funding from Ottawa to close the "health gap" with the rest of the country. Yet the real disease is poor management of the health-care dollars we're already spending, a fact that comes through clearly when you compare the provinces' health-care performance more carefully than the premier has done.
Maine, Canada ties urged
Former Maine International Trade Center Director Perry Newman and AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley have been discussing ways to improve trade and other links across the international border.
Canadian aquaculture caught in regulatory fog
The Canadian aquaculture industry is trapped in a fog of confusion and needs a true champion to pilot the farms of the future onto the world stage. The conference at Brudenell River Resort sponsored by The Canadian Aquaculture Institute and AIMS brought together producers, scientists and policy-makers who were told that while phenomenal growth exists in Canada, opportunities and investment are going elsewhere because of the impediments facing domestic expansion.
Beyond a Hard Place
Employment Insurance was initially established to support employees when they lost permanent jobs,but it has expanded to meet a myriad of ends. Increasingly it has become a system for supporting seasonal workers between highly seasonal jobs.At one point in the early 1970s workers could receive unemployment benefits after working eight to ten weeks. These benefits would then last for the rest of the year.As long as workers could get a few months work each year they could draw benefits year after year.The whole work/UI cycle was called the 10-42 syndrome.Closely identified with Atlantic Canada,it created a negative stereotype that has clung to the region ever since.
Aquaculture fin-clipped by government policies
Like Gulliver pinned down by those frightened Lilliputians, the phenomenal growth potential of Canadian aquaculture is being hog-tied because of government and financial policies that are suffocating development. That was the message delivered on the opening day of How to Farm the Sea, an international conference co-sponsored by AIMS and The Canadian Aquaculture Institute.
How to Farm the Seas: AIMS East Coast Conference
AIMS brings together leading national and international experts to clarify both the strengths and weaknesses of aquaculture, and to lay down the basis for a sensible public policy framework to govern the industry.