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1. Global Storm: The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Responses around the World

   The key event of 2020 was the COVID19 virus and its impacts on health, mortality rates, economies, and government budgets. From the first reports of a pneumonia of unknown origin in Wuhan, China, the COVID19 pandemic grew and spread to countries around ...

2. 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 ...

3. Despite spending hundreds of billions during COVID, we seem to have little to show for it

   Despite spending hundreds of billions during COVID, we seem to have little to show for it ...

4. Achieving the Four-Day Work Week: Part 1 Essays

   This is the first part in a new series of essays to be published by the Fraser Institute over the coming months focused on policy reforms that can improve productivity growth and lay the foundation for a four-day work week. Putting Government on a ...

5. Local Leviathans: The Rise of Municipal Government Spending in Canada, 1990–2018

   Canada’s municipalities have increased their spending and employment over the last two decades while maintaining that they are fiscally challenged. Notwithstanding the recent pandemic-induced fiscal shocks, they typically run surpluses on their operating ...

6. COVID underscores problems with government intervention

   COVID underscores problems with government intervention ...

7. Restoring Ontario's Public Finances

   Ontario’s public finances have deteriorated over the last few decades as chronic deficits have led to mounting public debt. Nevertheless, the situation can be repaired—and relatively more quickly than might be imagined. Restoring Ontario’s Public Finances ...

8. Household Debt and Government Debt in Canada

   Canadians are regularly inundated with news stories about policy concerns over household debt. These concerns, however, can be seen to be overblown once we properly account for the other side of the balance sheet. Canadian households have taken on more ...

9. A Federal Fiscal History: Canada, 1867-2017

   The Canadian federation’s 150th anniversary is an important milestone for a country that has become one of the most successful countries in the world. Canada’s economic evolution from a rural agricultural nation to a modern, highly urbanized, service ...

10. Comparing Recent Economic Performance in Canada and the United States: A Provincial and State-Level Analysis

    Conventional wisdom holds that Canada weathered the global financial crisis and recession better than most industrialized countries, particularly the United States. It is certainly true that overall, Canada has performed better economically than the ...