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  1. Generosity in Canada and the United States: The 2020 Generosity Index

    Manitoba had the highest percentage of tax filers that donated to charity among the provinces (22.4%) during the 2018 tax year while New Brunswick and Newfoundland & Labrador had the lowest (17.4%). Manitoba also donated the highest percentage ...

  2. Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2020 Report

    Waiting for treatment has become a defining characteristic of Canadian health care. In order to document the queues for visits to specialists and for diagnostic and surgical procedures in the country, the Fraser Institute has—for over two decades—surveyed ...

  3. The Essential Austrian Economics

    The Essential Austrian Economics is a new book, animated video series and website that explore the key tenets of Austrian economics and its foremost thinkers in an easily accessible way. Published by the Fraser Institute, the book is authored by ...

  4. The Great Convergence: Measuring the Fiscal Capacity Gap Between “Have” and “Have-Not” Provinces

    Since 2007/08, the fiscal capacity gap between richer and poorer Canadian provinces has shrunk dramatically, with the trend accelerating significantly after 2014–15. Fiscal capacity refers to a province’s ability to raise own-source revenues at tax rates ...

  5. An Evaluation of the Recent Performance of British Columbia’s Economy

    Over the past decade the British Columbia economy has enjoyed a faster rate of real (inflation-adjusted) economic growth than have Canada’s other nine provinces, on average. Indeed, from 2010 to 2018, BC’s real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at almost ...

  6. The Distribution of the Canada Child Benefit by Family Type and Income Level

    This essay examines the distribution of the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) by family type and by income level. It also compares the value of the average benefit and total spending on child benefits between the previous system of child benefits—the ...

  7. Report Card on British Columbia's Elementary Schools 2020

    The Report Card on British Columbia’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 ...

  8. Economic Performance in Ontario CMAs: A National Comparative Perspective

    Several recent Fraser Institute studies have documented the weak economic performance in Ontario over the past 20 years outside of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and to a lesser extent Ottawa. This bulletin builds on that analysis by examining ...

  9. The Quarterly- Winter 2020

    Published four times a year for Fraser Institute supporters, The Quarterly offers a roundup of critical research studies and commentaries written by Fraser Institute experts. The Quarterly- Winter 2020 ...

  10. Trends in Canadian Forest Fires, 1959–2019

    In recent years, media coverage and academic discussions of extreme fire activity have fostered the belief among some Canadians that the country is suffering from a rising trend of destruction from forest fires. During the period of reliable data from ...