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1. Deregulation now—and in the post-COVID world

   Appeared in the Globe and Mail, April 24, 2020 Hopefully, the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic will soon be behind us. Economists are debating the likely speed and vigour of a post-COVID economic recovery, but it seems fair to conclude that government ...

2. Regulatory reform in Canada should focus on streamlining deregulation

   The federal budget update delivered last week by Finance Minister Bill Morneau disappointingly provided no general relief on personal or business taxes. However, a number of business leaders and journalists praised the promise of ...

3. Strategies for Deregulation: Concepts and Evidence

   Overall economic output in Alberta remains well below projections made before the late 2014 recession that battered the Alberta economy. While there are external factors influencing the provincial economy that are beyond government control, the provincial ...

4. Demographics and Entrepreneurship blog series: The role of immigration in entrepreneurship

   As part of the blog series summarizing the Fraser Institute’s Demographics and Entrepreneurship essays, this post examines immigration and entrepreneurship. In many developed countries, immigrant entrepreneurs are a considerable force ...

5. U.S. and Canada take diverging paths on net neutrality

   The Trump administration recently announced its plan to repeal virtually all of the U.S. government’s existing net neutrality rules. Under the Obama administration, net neutrality rules subjected Internet service providers (ISPs) such as ...