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Showcase your ideas

Showcase your ideas on public policy and the role of markets by entering our essay competition. Each year the Institute holds a competition for students, designed to encourage and develop student writers.

$1,750 in cash prizes awarded each year.
Special category for high school students only.
Winning essays may be published in Fraser Institute journals.

STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST 2008
The Canadian health care system:
Why is it broken, and how can it be fixed?

1st prize: $1,000
2nd prize: $500
High school category: $250

Read full contest details.

Eliminating world poverty: What is the best approach?
Students from St. Catharines, Calgary and Burnaby have won the Fraser Institute’s annual student essay contest for their papers on how to eliminate world poverty.

Read essays from 2007 winners.