Alberta’s record-breaking gains in economic freedom already under threat

Since 1997, The Fraser Institute has conducted an annual survey of metal mining and exploration companies to assess how mineral endowments and public policy factors such as taxation and regulation affect exploration investment. Survey results represent the opinions of exploration managers in mining companies operating around the world. As the popularity of the survey has grown, we have expanded it to include more jurisdictions. We now ask companies to give us their opinions about the investment attractiveness of 53 jurisdictions including the Canadian provinces and territories (except Prince Edward Island), the Australian states, selected US states (this year Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming), Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. 

Statistics Canada (StatsCan) appears to have mismeasured auto insurance premiums from March 1996 to March 2002, if not generally outside that time range.

Headlines about fisheries fiascos in Canada are nothing new: economic and conservation woes plague the historically most important fisheries, salmon on the west coast and cod on the east coast. What have not made the headlines however, are management changes that have saved many of Canada's smaller fisheries such as halibut, sablefish, and sea cucumber.