Who was Barbara Mitchell?

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Over the last decade, British Columbia's economic performance stands in sharp contrast to its historical performance. Given the province's natural resources, access to foreign markets, educated workforce, and traditional level of economic performance

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In 1995, the Canadian government introduced universal firearm registration. It was claimed that firearm registration would cost no more than $85 million over five years. Freedom of Information requests have uncovered that firearm registration has cost at least $600 million over the past three years.

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The Report Card on British Columbia's Secondary Schools 2001 edition collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one easily accessible public document so that all interested parties-parents, school administrators, teachers, students, and taxpayers-can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools.

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When Ralph Klein took office from Don Getty in December 1992, Alberta had accumulated debt of nearly $6 billion, and the provincial Liberals under Laurence Decore were poised to form the next government.

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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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