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1. Measuring the Fiscal Performance of Canada's Premiers, 2012

   In this third edition of Measuring the Fiscal Performance of Canada?s Premiers, the authors provide an objective, empirical assessment of how Canada?s premiers have managed the public finances of their provinces and whether they have pursued sound, long ...

2. Measuring Income Mobility in Canada

   This study measures income mobility in Canada over two five-year periods (1996-2001 and 2002-2007) and over a 10-year and a 19-year period (1990-2000 and 1990-2009). In all periods, Canadians initially in the lowest income group (the bottom 20%) ...

3. Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States: 2012 Edition

   This study measures the labour market performance of Canadian provinces and US states from 2007 to 2011 based on five equally weighted indicators: average total employment growth, average private-sector employment growth, average unemployment rates, ...

4. BC Family Day will cost BC families

   Appeared in Business in Vancouver As we approach what would have been the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman, I am reminded of his common sense thinking. “There is no such thing as a free lunch,” he once famously remarked.  ...

5. B.C. welfare payments are adequate; For the most part, they line up with basic needs; where they don't, for employable singles, there is a reason

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun Surrey MLA Jagrup Brar's attempt to spend January living on the $610 welfare rate for a single employable individual has succeeded in getting people talking about the adequacy of welfare. Brar's actions are in ...

6. Open union books to see how much they spend on political activities

   Appeared in the Financial Post With Ontarians heading to the polls in a little more than a week, and up to four other provincial elections possible this fall, unions across the country have ramped up their political activism. Unfortunately, the unionized ...

7. Measuring the Fiscal Performance of Canada's Premiers, 2011

   This Alert is designed to help Canadians hold their provincial political leaders accountable for the relative performance of their fiscal policies. In this second edition, we provide an objective, empirical assessment of how Canada?s premiers have managed ...

8. Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States: 2011 Edition

   This study measures the labour market performance of Canadian provinces and US states from 2006 to 2010 based on five equally weighted indicators: average total employment growth, average private-sector employment growth, average unemployment rates, ...

9. Estimating the Economic Impact of British Columbia's Minimum Wage Increase

   On March 16, 2011, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark announced her first major policy change, a $2.25 (28.1%) increase to BC?s current $8.00 per hour minimum wage. Controversy surrounds minimum wages because of the tension between well-intentioned ...

10. Minimum wage increase a job killer

    Appeared in the Vancouver Sun As entrepreneur Robert J. Ringer famously said, Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. And when it comes to minimum wage increases, the wishful thinking ...