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1. China targets everyone in the world

   Chinese officials are pulling books from schools and libraries and purging teachers and professors. ...

2. Unemployment spike may trigger rethink of EI program in Atlantic Canada and beyond

   Appeared in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, August 7, 2020 The spike in unemployment across Canada due to the COVID pandemic has triggered changes in the employment insurance (EI) program. When unemployment grows in any of the country’s 62 EI regions, EI ...

3. An Open Letter to the People of Hong Kong

   An international group of think tanks from 35 nations and territories from around the world has penned an open letter condemning the actions of the Communist Party of China and supporting the people of Hong Kong. On Tuesday, China’s National People’s ...

4. Overly generous EI system could cause problems long after CERB winds down

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, June 24, 2020 Canada’s employment insurance (EI) is on autopilot, heading in a perilous direction. As unemployment increases, EI’s accessibility and generosity automatically grow, with risky consequences for Canada’s fiscal ...

5. Extended Employment Insurance Now Open to All: Atlantic Canada’s Warning for Other Provinces

   The structure of Canada’s Employment Insurance system is rapidly changing across Canada on autopilot. As unemployment grows, the generosity and accessibility of Canada’s Employment Insurance (EI) increases. The number of hours of work required to collect ...

6. Canada must push back hard against Chinese aggression in Hong Kong

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, June 13, 2020 The global response, including from Canada, to the Communist Party of China’s aggression against Hong Kong, has been far too muted. To “talk softly and carry no stick,” as Fen Hampson of the Norman ...

7. China looks to douse freedom in Hong Kong

   The Communist Party of China (CPC) recently ordered large-scale arrests of dissidents and imposed a security law, which attacks Hong Kong’s Basic Law (effectively, a freedom-protecting constitution) by bypassing Hong Kong’s Legislative ...

8. Economic Freedom of the Arab World: 2019 Annual Report

   Wherever true economic freedom takes root, it creates opportunity for all by eliminating obstacles to success. Economic freedom is simply the ability of individuals and families to make their own economic decisions and take advantage of opportunities and ...

9. Catching Up with Canada: A Prosperity Agenda for Atlantic Canada

   Taken as a whole, Atlantic Canada is a lagging economic region in Canada. But this has not always been the case. The region has experienced significant periods of prosperity and economic optimism. This history gives hope that the region’s current status ...

10. Economic Freedom of North America 2019

    Economic Freedom of North America 2019 is the fifteenth edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual report. This year it measures the extent to which—in 2017, the year with the most recent available comprehensive data—the policies of individual provinces and ...