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The labour market demand for highly skilled employees is increasing; universities need high-calibre professors to train them. But the demand for superior scholars is not being met in some fields, despite a buyer's market for available Canadian academic personnel.

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Over the past decade, Banff has become the centre of the debate over the future of Canada's national parks policy. Environmentalists have asserted that the multiple-use philosophy that inspired the establishment of Canada's first national park is now imperiling it. This paper seeks to investigate the growing influence of radical environmentalism on Parks Canada policy.

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Les bonnes écoles répondent aux besoins des parents, élèves, contribuables et employeurs. Ce n'est qu'en tenant compte de ces besoins qu'une école peut se doter d'un programme scolaire pertinent, de méthodes d'enseignement efficaces et de services d'orientation utiles. Même si chaque école secondaire québécoise est appelée à combler des attentes différentes, toutes doivent répondre à certains impératifs fondamentaux.

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Report Card on Quebec's Secondary Schools: 2000 Edition. Good schools meet the needs of their customers- parents, students, taxpayers, and employers.

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Despite improvements in two provinces, in Canada as a whole, waiting time for surgical and other therapeutic treatments remained long in 1999.

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Risk regulation as it is currently implemented has many pitfalls. In some cases, regulations to address one risk can introduce other risks. In many cases, expenditure to reduce a risk could save many more years of life if spent reducing another risk. These issues are not currently considered by many of the interest groups calling for more risk regulation, the public supporting those calls, or the governments who respond by introducing more regulation. Instead, risk activists and regulators focus on the potential benefits of risk regulation while ignoring the costs.

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This study compares the prices of prescription drugs in Canada and the United States. The measure used is the replacement cost, at Canadian prices, of drugs consumed by the average American pharmacy or consumer. The sample was selected from the drugs consumed in the largest quantities in the United States. This ensures that the study captured non-patented as well as patented drugs.