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  1. Fraser Institute ranked 14th best think tank in the world; recognized as an international Centre of Excellence

    The Fraser Institute ranks 14th best think tank worldwide out of more than 11,000 organizations, according to the University of Pennsylvania’s annual Global Go To Think Tank Index that was released last week. Notably, the Institute was also named a Centre ...

  2. Fiscal Federalism and the Dependency of Atlantic Canada

    Fiscal federalism, the massive and unbalanced flow of federal money to and from the provinces, will create a huge fiscal challenge going forward for at least three reasons: economic difficulties emerging after the COVID-19 pandemic, the overhang of ...

  3. Promise and Performance: Recent Trends in Government Expenditures on Indigenous Peoples

    If better-funded government programs were the answer to Indigenous poverty, we would have seen the results by now. Between 1981 and 2016, federal spending on Indigenous programming was multiplied by more than four times, yet the gap in the average ...

  4. Correcting Common Misunderstandings about Capital Gains Taxes

    This essay reviews some of the common misunderstandings related to capital gains and their taxation. First, a significant body of research concludes that taxes on capital are among the most economically damaging. Two of the more important adverse effects ...

  5. Canada-US Energy Sector Competitiveness Survey 2020

    This report presents the results of the Fraser Institute’s 2020 Canada–US Energy Sector Competitiveness Survey regarding barriers to investment in oil and gas exploration and production facilities in each country. The survey responses have been tallied to ...

  6. Achieving the Four-Day Work Week: Part 3 Essays

    The Drag on Productivity From Excessive Regulation, by researcher Laura Jones, chief strategic officer and executive vice-president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), notes that Canadian businesses could save nearly $11 billion ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Education Spending in Public Schools in Canada, 2021 Edition

    This study examines changes in education spending on public schools in Canada from 2013/14 to 2017/18. It is clear from the data that from 2013/14 to 2017/18 Canada has increased education spending in public schools beyond what was required to account for ...

  9. Canadian Student Review: Winter 2021

    In this issue: Wealth Taxes Aren’t Worth It Our student contributor, William Dunstan, explains why wealth taxes won’t solve the country’s financial woes. Video Gallery This video explores Robert Nozick’s framework that would allow for countless perfect ...

  10. The Human Freedom Index 2020

    The Human Freedom Index is the most comprehensive freedom index so far created for a globally meaningful set of countries representing 94 percent of the world’s population. The HFI covers 162 countries for 2018, the most recent year for which sufficient ...