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FRASER UPDATE
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Latest Research
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Ottawa-Gatineau metropolitan area had highest employment incomes nationwide in 2019
Comparing Median Employment Incomes in Canada’s Census Metropolitan Areas measures median employment income—wages, salaries and commissions from paid and net self-employment income before taxes and transfers—across Canada’s 41 census metropolitan areas for 2019, and finds CMAs containing capital cities ranked highest on average.
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“Basic needs” poverty in Canada at an all-time low; less than 3% of Canadians had consumption levels below the basic needs line in 2019
Counting the Poor: The Empirical Evidence is the second part of the Thinking About Poverty series by Senior Fellow Christopher A. Sarlo. The new study finds that three different Statistics Canada models for measuring poverty are broadly consistent: Income poverty for households is in the five to seven per cent range; and for individuals, it is in the four to six per cent range. Critically, the study also measures consumption poverty, which measures what households consume rather than counting their income. This is important because many low-income households will draw on savings, charity, assistance from family, etc. that assists them but doesn’t appear in income statistics. Consumption poverty was less than three per cent of Canadians in 2019, which points to an all-time low for “basic needs” poverty in Canada.
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Essential Scholars Explained Podcast
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Rose Friedman and Mary Paley Marshall—Neck(s) of the Operation [[link removed]]
Lynne Kiesling, co-author of the Essential Women of Liberty, joins host Rosemarie Fike to discuss the critical behind-the-scenes work done by Rose Friedman and Mary Paley Marshall—two women who, despite not having very public-facing roles when it came to their respective husbands' careers, both collaborated with and made invaluable contributions to not only the work of their partners, but the field of economics entire.
Commentary and Blog Posts
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B.C.’s cross-border cancer care initiative—necessary, bold and hypocritical [[link removed]]
by Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir
The median wait between specialist visit to treatment in the province exceeded what physicians consider reasonable by more than one month.
Federal government wants to renew flawed equalization formula [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Financial Post) by Alex Whalen
Payments to recipient provinces are increasing even as the gap between richer and poorer provinces shrinks.
Health-care wait times cost Canadians billions of dollars [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Ottawa Sun) by Mackenzie Moir and Bacchus Barua
Countries with shorter wait times do universal health care differently than Canada.
Possibility of four-day workweek fading as economic growth prospects wane [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Globe and Mail) by Jason Clemens, Steven Globerman, and Milagros Palacios
Canada is expected to record the lowest level of growth in living standards among 32 industrialized countries.
Teacher union wants smaller class sizes—to benefit teachers and the union [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Western Standard) by Michael Zwaagstra
If you reduce class sizes, you must hire more teachers.
COVID’s economic, fiscal and health effects—a mixed bag for Canada [[link removed]]
(Appeared in National Newswatch) by Livio Di Matteo
The country's gross debt-to-GDP ratio increased by nearly 25 percentage points from 2019 to 2021.
Climate activists continue their confusing crusade [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Edmonton Sun) by Kenneth P. Green
According to new research, methane's impact on global warming has been overstated.
Fight grade inflation with standardized testing in Ontario and beyond [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Epoch Times) by Michael Zwaagstra
A recent poll found that 80 per cent of Ontario parents support standardized testing.
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