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  1. The Investment Outlook for the Canadian and US Oil and Gas Sectors: Evidence from Financial Metrics

    Canada’s oil and gas industry has long been a driver of the country’s economic growth. Hence, the outlook for the industry’s future profitability is an important determinant of capital investment rates and employment trends for the industry and the ...

  2. Education Spending in Public Schools in Canada, Fall 2021

    This study examines changes in education spending on public schools in Canada from 2014/15 to 2018/19. It is clear from the data that Canada has increased education spending in public schools during this period beyond what was required to account for ...

  3. Repairing Alberta's Heritage Fund for the Long Term

    In 1976/77, Alberta’s Heritage Savings Trust Fund was created to save a share of the province’s resource wealth so as to provide benefits to Albertans in the future. Unfortunately, the Heritage Fund has been limited in its ability to do so as consistent ...

  4. An International Comparison of Capital Expenditures

    Capital investment contributes to economic growth and higher standards of living through its link to increased labour productivity and technological change. The growth rate of overall capital expenditures in Canada slowed substantially from 2005 ...

  5. Industry-Level Private Sector Capital Expenditures in Canada: 1990-2019

    Recent concerns about Canada’s industrial competitiveness compared to that in other developed countries, particularly the US, have focused on declines in private sector capital expenditures, especially in asset categories such as machinery and ...

  6. A New (Old) Fiscal Rule for Non-Renewable Resource Revenue in Alberta

    Alberta’s government finances are once again in a perilous state with ongoing deficits, mounting debt and near record levels of spending. One of the greatest contributors to Alberta’s fiscal instability is the provincial government’s treatment of non ...

  7. Education Spending in Public Schools in Canada, 2021 Edition

    This study examines changes in education spending on public schools in Canada from 2013/14 to 2017/18. It is clear from the data that from 2013/14 to 2017/18 Canada has increased education spending in public schools beyond what was required to account for ...

  8. Report Card on British Columbia's Elementary Schools 2020

    The Report Card on British Columbia’s Elementary Schools 2020 collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, easily accessible public document so that anyone can analyze and compare the performance of individual ...

  9. Economic Performance in Ontario CMAs: A National Comparative Perspective

    Several recent Fraser Institute studies have documented the weak economic performance in Ontario over the past 20 years outside of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and to a lesser extent Ottawa. This bulletin builds on that analysis by examining ...

  10. Report Card on Quebec's Secondary Schools 2020

    The Report Card on Quebec’s Secondary Schools 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 ...