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  1. Hospital Report Card: Ontario 2009

    The Fraser Institute's Hospital Report Card: Ontario 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 Ontario. https://www ...

  2. Stelmach should cut spending, focus on Alberta Advantage

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald Albertans worried about whether their government understands the dire situation facing the province will be disheartened by Tuesday’s Speech from the Throne. While the speech trumpeted that “prudent fiscal management has ...

  3. A Comparative Analysis of Mortality Rates Associated with Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery in Ontario and Select US States

    The purpose of this study is threefold: first, to ascertain whether there are differences between mortality rates associated with coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in Ontario hospitals that perform such surgeries; second, to test whether the ...

  4. How Good Is Canadian Health Care? 2008 Report

    This 2008 edition of How Good Is Canadian Health Care? provides answers to a series of questions that are important to resolve if Canada is to make the correct choices as it amends its health care policies. In this study, we primarily compare Canada to ...

  5. Fraser Forum- November 2008: Water Rights in Quebec

    In this issue: Up Front: Ezra Levant speaks freely The former Western Standard publisher discusses his battle with the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal which ended 900 days after it began. Why are Quebec’s students failing? by Peter Cowley The exam failure ...

  6. How Good is Canada's Medical Technology Inventory?

    Medical technologies are an important component of medical care and can provide significant benefits to patients. Medical technologies can advance the identification and treatment of disease, provide more comfortable treatment regimes and reduce pain, ...

  7. Fraser Forum- October 2008: US Election Consequences

    In this issue: Up Front: Celebrate Hong Kong On September 16, the Fraser Institute announced the results of the annual Economic Freedom of the World report in Hong Kong at a gala event. Is America becoming Canadianized? by Jason Clemens Some of Canada’s ...

  8. National Psychiatry Waiting List Survey, 2008

    In 2003 we added psychiatry to the annual measurement of waiting lists reported in Waiting Your Turn, thus creating the first national, comprehensive, and comparable measurement of waiting times for mental health services available in Canada. https://www ...

  9. Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada, 18th Edition

    The Fraser Institute's eighteenth annual waiting list survey found that Canada-wide waiting times for surgical and other therapeutic treatments decreased in 2008. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/WaitingYourTurn2008.pdf ...

  10. Adding HOV lanes the wrong solution for Calgary

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald According to recent news reports, the City of Calgary is considering more High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes to ease traffic congestion on the city’s crowded streets. This would be a mistake and the city would be well ...