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Average Danes pay high taxes to finance Denmark’s large welfare state

The Free Enterprise Welfare State: A History of Denmark’s Unique Economic Model finds that, despite common misperceptions, middle-class workers in Denmark pay relatively high taxes for Denmark’s large government.

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Ottawa’s misguided Indo-Pacific trade strategy unlikely to succeed

Canada’s Indo-Pacific Trade Strategy and Trade Diversification finds that the federal government’s new trade strategy (IPS), meant to encourage increased Canadian exports to Indo-Pacific countries such as India and China through subsidies and other preferential treatments, unwisely shifts attention from Canada’s largest trading partner and key source of prosperity.

Analysis of Changes in Median Employment Income in Large Canadian and American Metropolitan Areas, 2010-2019 is a new study that ranks employment income growth in the largest 141 metropolitan areas in Canada and the United States from 2010 to 2019, finding that only three Canadian cities rank in the top half, with Toronto—Canada’s largest metropolitan area—ranking 102nd.

It’s Time to Get Off the Resource Revenue Rollercoaster

There’s time to get off the resource revenue rollercoaster: Re-establishing the Alberta Sustainability Fund is a new study that finds with spending restraint, Alberta can re-introduce a rainy-day fund worth $9.8 billion by 2025/26 that could help insulate the province’s budget from swings in resource revenue.

Median employment income for Halifax workers nearly $24,000 less than in Boston

Comparing Median Employment Incomes in Atlantic Canada and New England Metropolitan Areas measures median employment income in 20 metropolitan areas in Atlantic Canada and New England (from 2010-2019), finding that most major urban areas in Atlantic Canada underperformed compared to the neighbouring region.

Housing completions not keeping pace with population— 2018 to 2022, population growth averaged more than 550,000 per year compared to only 200,000 new homes

Canada’s Growing Housing Gap: Comparing Population Growth and Housing Completions in Canada, 1972-2022 finds that the gap between the number of homes built and the number of additional people in Canada is the widest it’s been in 50 years.

Mental Health Care: How is Canada Doing? compares Canada’s mental health services to other countries with universally accessible health care and finds that, despite the Canadian government spending a larger share of health dollars on mental health services, Canada has relatively fewer psychiatric care beds (ranking 22nd out of 28 nations), psychiatrists (ranking 16th out of 28 nations), and psychologists (ranking 15th out of 26 nations) in addition to growing wait times.

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Average Danes pay high taxes to finance Denmark’s large welfare state

Average Danes pay high taxes to finance Denmark’s large welfare state

Ottawa’s misguided Indo-Pacific trade strategy unlikely to succeed

Ottawa’s misguided Indo-Pacific trade strategy unlikely to succeed

Toronto ranks 102 out of 141 Canadian and US metropolitan areas on employment income growth from 2010-2019

Toronto ranks 102 out of 141 Canadian and US metropolitan areas on employment income growth from 2010-2019

With spending restraint, Alberta can re-introduce a rainy-day fund worth $9.8 billion by 2025/26

With spending restraint, Alberta can re-introduce a rainy-day fund worth $9.8 billion by 2025/26

Median employment income for Halifax workers nearly $24,000 less than in Boston

Median employment income for Halifax workers nearly $24,000 less than in Boston

Housing completions not keeping pace with population— 2018 to 2022, population growth averaged more than 550,000 per year compared to only 200,000 new homes

Housing completions not keeping pace with population— 2018 to 2022, population growth averaged more than 550,000 per year compared to only 200,000 new homes

Canada ranks 22nd out of 28 countries with universally accessible health care on psychiatric care beds

Canada ranks 22nd out of 28 countries with universally accessible health care on psychiatric care beds

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Average Danes pay high taxes to finance Denmark’s large welfare state

Average Danes pay high taxes to finance Denmark’s large welfare state

Ottawa’s misguided Indo-Pacific trade strategy unlikely to succeed

Ottawa’s misguided Indo-Pacific trade strategy unlikely to succeed

Toronto ranks 102 out of 141 Canadian and US metropolitan areas on employment income growth from 2010-2019

Toronto ranks 102 out of 141 Canadian and US metropolitan areas on employment income growth from 2010-2019

With spending restraint, Alberta can re-introduce a rainy-day fund worth $9.8 billion by 2025/26

With spending restraint, Alberta can re-introduce a rainy-day fund worth $9.8 billion by 2025/26

Median employment income for Halifax workers nearly $24,000 less than in Boston

Median employment income for Halifax workers nearly $24,000 less than in Boston

Housing completions not keeping pace with population— 2018 to 2022, population growth averaged more than 550,000 per year compared to only 200,000 new homes

Housing completions not keeping pace with population— 2018 to 2022, population growth averaged more than 550,000 per year compared to only 200,000 new homes

Canada ranks 22nd out of 28 countries with universally accessible health care on psychiatric care beds

Canada ranks 22nd out of 28 countries with universally accessible health care on psychiatric care beds