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1. Hospital Report Card Alberta 2009

   The Fraser Institute's Hospital Report Card Alberta 2009 is constructed to help patients choose the best hospital for their inpatient care by providing them with information on the performance of acute-care hospitals in Alberta. https://www ...

2. Alberta Electricity Transmission Policy for the Next Generation

   Electricity generation in Alberta was deregulated by the Electric Utilities Act of 1995. The act established the market where electricity producers, marketers, importers, distributors, exporters, and large industrial consumers could sell and buy ...

3. Myths and Realities of TILMA

   On April 28, 2006, the premiers of British Columbia and Alberta signed the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (British Columbia, Ministry of Economic Development, 2006f) with the objective of creating a seamless economic region between the ...

4. Eliminating Barriers to Worker Mobility: Increasing the Availability of Skilled Labor in Alberta's Oil Sands Industry

   The demand in Alberta for skilled workers is projected to continue to grow rapidly, especially for oil sands construction projects. A ready supply of out-of-province workers would help to prevent construction project delays and cost overruns. Provincial ...

5. Meeting the Demands of Rapid Oil Sands Industry Growth

   On November 14, 2006, the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) approved the application submitted by Suncor Energy Inc. to proceed with two major projects in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, near Fort McMurray. The board made its ...

6. A New Pension Deal for Alberta

   The CPP is a mandatory, employment-related pension system governed jointly by the federal and provincial governments and administered by the federal government. It pays retirement and other benefits calculated in relation to earnings up to a maximum ...

7. Moving Beyond the Status Quo: Alberta's Working Prescription for Health Care Reform

   Many experts have diagnosed medicare in Canada as an ailing system in need of treatment. Commission after commission has agreed that the health care system, under pressures of an expanding and aging population, and growing demands for new technologies and ...

8. How Private Hospital Competition Can Improve Canadian Health Care

   The Alberta proposal raises three issues. First, do for-profit hospitals perform better than non-profit ones? Second, do private hospitals (either for-profit or non-profit) perform better than government-run (public) ones? Third, does intensified ...

9. Accounting Profession in Alberta

   This book is one in a series produced by the Fraser Institute which scrutinizes the activities of professions in Canada. The purpose of the studies is to subject these occupational monopolies to the same searching analysis which the Institute applies to ...

10. Focus on Alberta's Industrial and Science Strategy Proposals

    In July 1984, the Government of Alberta released a White Paper entitled Proposals for an Industrial and Science Strategy for Albertans 1985 to 1990. The document was designed to stimulate discussion rather than to give a firm indication of the government& ...