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  1. Achieving the Four-Day Work Week: Essays on Improving Productivity Growth in Canada

    Surveys of Canadians have shown a strong desire for reduced work hours with a four-day work week being a highly prized goal. This is hardly surprising given that leisure time is a valuable good for most people. To be sure, a four-day work week would be ...

  2. Achieving the Four-Day Work Week: Part 3 Essays

    The Drag on Productivity From Excessive Regulation, by researcher Laura Jones, chief strategic officer and executive vice-president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), notes that Canadian businesses could save nearly $11 billion ...

  3. Managing Fish: Ten Case Studies from Canada's Pacific Coast

    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 ...

  4. Environmental Indicators (5th Edition)

    The index of environmental indicators for Canada, the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and South Korea shows that fears about increasing environmental degradation in these countries are unfounded. Environmental quality is getting better, not ...

  5. Annual Survey of Mining Companies: 2000-2001

    Since 1997, The Fraser Institute has been surveying mining companies each year to assess how mineral endowments and public policy factors such as taxation and regulation affect exploration investment. Survey results represent the opinions of exploration ...

  6. Environmental Indicators (4th Edition)

    This document is designed to give the reader an overview of national environmental quality in Canada. While the indicators include many local or regional environmental issues, such as the air quality of selected cities, the main goal of this study is to ...

  7. Crying Wolf?

    This Critical Issues Bulletin evaluates the need for federal legislation to protect endangered species in Canada by asking fundamental questions that have been by-passed in the public debate. First, does the number of endangered species in Canada ...

  8. Facts Not Fear

    Foreword By PATRICK MOORE The environmental movement has given a whole new meaning to the idea of teaching our children about the birds and the bees. Not only has the subject matter expanded to include everything under the sun, we are now faced with the ...

  9. Environmental Indicators for North America and the United Kingdom, 1999

    This document is designed to give the reader an overview of national environmental quality in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Mexico. While the indicators include many local or regional environmental issues, such as the air quality of ...

  10. Annual Survey of Mining Companies: 1998-1999

    In 1997, the Fraser Institute launched its Survey of Mining Companies Operating in Canada to assess how mineral potential and various public policy factors such as taxation and regulation affect exploration investment in Canada. The Fraser Institute' ...