Who was Barbara Mitchell?

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This report is a first attempt at quantifying labour-market performance and the characteristics that affect it across Canadian provinces and US states. It includes comprehensive measures of how well labour markets across Canada and the US have performed over the last five years and critical characteristics such as unionization rates and public-sector employment rates, which affect performance.

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Increasingly, the debate over climate change is moving from alarmist global climate predictions, to alarmist regional climate predictions-reports purporting to predict the future climate impacts of rising greenhouse gas concentration on specific regions of the Earth, and calling for a laundry list of regulations long-favoured by old-school environmentalists.

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This 7th global economic freedom report, by James Gwartney and Robert Lawson, ranks 123 nations for 2001, the most recent year for which data are available. The report also updates data in earlier reports in instances where data have been revised. The key ingredients of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to compete, and protection of the person and property. Economic freedom liberates individuals and families from government dependence and gives them charge of their own future.Empirical research shows this spurs economic growth by unleashing dynamism. It also leads to democracy and other freedoms as people are unfettered from government dependence.

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The genesis of this book was a Fraser Institute conference on democratic reform in November 2001. This, in turn, was inspired by the evident openness of the new government of British Columbia (elected in May of 2001) to consider these topics. Indeed, one of the first measures of that government was to pass legislation providing for fixed-term elections (with exceptions in case of defeat on a confidence motion).

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The Report Card on Ontario's Elementary Schools: 2003 Edition collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, easily accessible public document.

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The Report Card on British Columbia's Elementary Schools: 2003 Edition collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, accessible document so that anyone can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools. The Report Card assists parents choose a school for their children and encourages and assists all those seeking to improve their schools.

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This speech was presented a Fraser Institute Round Table Luncheon on June 11, 2003.

As The Economist's editor in chief for the past decade, Bill Emmott has had a prime vantage point from which to observe the pageant of world events. In his new book 20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-first Century, he combines journalistic insights with historical analysis to show how the challenges of the last hundred years can shed light on those to come in the next hundred.

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