Education on Wheels: Seizing Cost and Energy Efficiency Opportunities in Student Transportation
Halifax, NS (13 January 2015): A new AIMS research report, “Education on Wheels,” shows that student transportation costs are rising steadily across Maritime Canada, even as student enrolment declines, and that provincial governments in the region are missing opportunities to achieve cost and energy efficiencies. The authors, Paul W. Bennett and ...
The Size and Cost of Atlantic Canada’s Public Sector
In The Size and Cost of Atlantic Canada’s Public Sector, authors Ben Eisen and Shaun Fantauzzo compare public sector employment rates in the ten Canadian provinces. They show that the public sector employment rates are higher than the national average in all four Atlantic Provinces, and that public sector workers ...
New Brunswick’s Debt and Deficit: A Historical Look
New Brunswick faces a significant public debt problem and spending restraint is the best available solution. These are the central findings of a new research paper, released this morning, by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS). The paper’s title is “New Brunswick’s Debt and Deficit Problem: A Historical Look” ...
This Rose, By Any Name, Stinks
Criticisms of the property tax system are routine and growing. For Nova Scotia, the system of property taxation and assessment dates back to the 1880s. With the property tax system so generally and roundly condemned, the consideration of alternatives obviously becomes necessary. The two alternatives that are most commonly contrasted ...
Put Our Money Where Our Mouths Are
Recently overstretched provincial and federal budgets mean increased spending pressures for municipalities. Coupled with limited taxing capacity and a lack of constitutional authority, municipalities today find themselves struggling to meettheir commitments. With revenue generation limited to property taxation anduser fees, and with provincial transfers unstable, municipalities could well find themselves ...
