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1. Report Card on Ontario's Elementary Schools 2020

   The Report Card on Ontario’s Elementary Schools 2020 collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, easily accessible public document so that anyone can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools. By ...

2. Education Spending in Public Schools in Canada: 2020 Edition

   This study reviews the change in education spending on public schools in Canada from 2012/13 to 2016/17. It has two main parts. First, we review the changes in education spending over the past five years, accounting for the effects of enrolment and ...

3. Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States: 2019 Edition

   Labour markets are the mechanism through which we allocate one of our most valuable and productive resources: human work, effort, creativity, and ingenuity. Labour markets match human skills, supplied by individuals seeking to earn a living, with the ...

4. Private Sector Capital Expenditures in Canada: An Industry-Level Analysis

   There has been much debate recently about Canada’s industrial competitiveness compared to other developed countries, particularly the US. In particular, concerns have been raised about recent declines in private sector capital expenditures, especially in ...

5. Ford/Tory row exposes cloudy nature of municipal finances

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, June 12, 2019 As part of its broader effort to rein in spending, the Ford government has planned future funding cuts for various local services (Toronto Public Health, paramedic services and children’s services) and cancelled a ...

6. Comparing Municipal Finances in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area

   Municipal governments play an important role in the lives of Ontarians by providing key services and collecting taxes and fees. But it is not always straightforward for citizens to understand the state of their municipal government’s finances, and even ...

7. Canada’s upstream oil and gas sector—from the outpatient clinic to intensive care

   Appeared in the Fredericton Daily Gleaner, May 15, 2019 Canadian oil and gas companies face some major problems. Legal restrictions on the expansion of pipeline capacity have restricted exports of oil, shrinking profit margins. The subsequent price ...

8. Contributions to the CPP—comparing provinces

   Alberta’s $27.9 billion net contribution over this period is almost four times greater than Ontario’s. ...

9. Investment in the Canadian and U.S. Oil and Gas Sectors: A Tale of Diverging Fortunes

   The oil and gas industry is critically important to Canada’s economy. It accounts for almost 8 percent of Canada’s GDP, as well as for a significant share of the tax revenue collected by governments. The oil and gas sector is particularly important to the ...

10. Busting the myth of Ontario's 'massive education cuts'

    This month, after the Ford movement released its first budget, reactions from Ontario teacher unions and school board administrators was swift. Some claim the budget calls for “massive education cuts” and that schools will be starved for ...