The Report Card on Ontario’s Secondary Schools 2011 collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, easily accessible public document so that anyone can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools. By doing so, the Report Card assists parents when they choose a school for their children and encourages and assists all those seeking to improve their schools.

The Canadian tax system is complex and there is no single number that can give us a complete idea of who pays how much tax. That said, the Fraser Institute annually calculates the most comprehensive and easily understood indicator of the overall tax bill of the average Canadian family: Tax Freedom Day. This Alert examines what has happened to the tax bill of the average Canadian family over the past 49 years. To do this, we have constructed an index of the tax bill, the Canadian Consumer Tax Index, for the period 1961 to 2010.

Many proponents of Canada Pension Plan (CPP) reform call for its mandatory expansion, while others have made the case for alternatives. This study examines CPP expansion from an economies-of-scale perspective to assess the potential impact of expansion on the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s (CPPIB’s) performance in managing costs and generating returns. The study concludes that diseconomies of scale present a risk to the CPPIB’s investment performance.