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1. Less Ottawa, More Province, 2021: How Decentralized Federalism is Key to Health Care Reform

   A significant body of research suggests that Canada’s health care system consistently underperforms relative to most peer jurisdictions with universal health care systems. This underperformance continues despite the fact that Canada is one of the world’s ...

2. Housing Codes, Homelessness, and Affordable Housing

   Homelessness is a growing problem in Canada; 235,000 people have been homeless at one time or another during any given recent year. Furthermore, at any one time perhaps as many as 5,000 or more are homeless. While there are many causes of ...

3. Alberta government should use unexpected windfall to stop resource rollercoaster

   By limiting the amount of resource revenue included in the budget, the fund could restore discipline to government spending. ...

4. 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 ...

5. Ford government thwarts development during housing crisis in the GTA

   There are 360 homes for every 1,000 GTA residents—well below the Canadian average. ...

6. It shouldn’t take three levels of government to pay for a train

   The prime minister is making the rounds, pledging money for various public transportation projects. ...

7. More government money won’t move needle on housing affordability

   The federal government plans to spend billions on “affordable” housing over the next several years. ...

8. Red tape—not greedy companies—drives Canada’s housing crisis

   A recent report showed that Canada has fewer housing units per capita than any other G7 country. ...

9. Furey government must reduce spending to right fiscal ship

   Newfoundland and Labrador's budget deficit stands at $825 million. ...

10. Fiscal Lessons for Atlantic Canada from Saskatchewan

    COVID-19 and the related economic recession have thrown governments across Canada into varying degrees of fiscal peril. In Newfoundland & Labrador, the challenges of rapidly increasing debt and large deficits have created perhaps the largest fiscal ...