Who was Barbara Mitchell?

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The issue of tax cuts has overwhelmed the equally important issue of tax reform in the national debate. This study outlines many of the issues raised during the recent federal election and provides information on tax reform in order to provide a foundation for rational debate.

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The Report Card on Alberta's High Schools: 2001 Edition collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one easily accessible public document so that all interested parties can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools. In this way, the Report Card encourages and assists those seeking to improve their schools.

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This is the fifth edition of Economic Freedom of the World . Chapter 1 of this report updates the data from the earlier editions and presents an economic freedom index for 123 countries for 1999. Exhibit 1-1 shows the 21 components used to construct the index.

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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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