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FRASER UPDATE
A weekly digest of our latest research, commentary, and blog posts
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Latest Research
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Despite housing shortage, 1-in-4 neighbourhoods in Canadian cities saw number of housing units actually decline from 2016-2021
Making Room for Growth: Housing Intensification in Canada’s Cities, 2016-2021 is a new study that finds despite a housing shortage in many cities across the country, the number of housing units in 26.4 per cent of Canada’s urban neighbourhoods—more than one-in-four—actually declined from 2016 to 2021. What’s more, half of all neighbourhoods in Canadian cities saw the number of housing units increase by less than one per cent.
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Provinces risk their finances by relying on federal transfers for programs in areas of provincial jurisdiction
Repeating the Past: Provinces Accept Federal Money at Their Peril draws on the experience of Canada in the 1990s, when the federal government reformed and reduced transfers to the provinces to tackle the federal deficit and mounting debt—and how that comparison can be used to inform the decisions of policymakers today.
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Essential Scholars Explained Podcast
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Adam Smith—Through Sympathy There is Progress [[link removed]]
James R. Otteson, Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame and co-author of The Essential Adam Smith, joins host Rosemarie Fike to discuss Smith’s concept of sympathy, and how paying attention to the feedback our behaviours elicit from others is what enables progress and change within society.
Commentary and Blog Posts
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Courts mandate socialism to promote ‘fundamental justice’ [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the National Post) by Bruce Pardy
According to the court, we must have equal distribution of medical resources, even if that prevents you from obtaining private care that would save your life.
Canada’s burning because of bad forest policy, not climate change [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the National Post) by Kenneth P. Green
The number of Canadian forest fires has sharply declined.
Federal government relies on wishful thinking to rationalize deficits [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Hub) by Vincent Geloso
According to forecasts, the federal deficit will eclipse $40 billion this year.
Canada can learn lessons from Europe to fix our broken health-care system [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Regina Leader-Post) by Yanick Labrie and Bacchus Barua
At the beginning of 2023, at least 645,000 Canadians were waiting for surgery.
Smith needs constitutional change to protect Albertans from future tax hikes [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Edmonton Sun) by Tegan Hill
Future governments can easily and unilaterally change any law passed by the legislature.
One-size-fits-all approaches don’t benefit all students [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Epoch Times) by Michael Zwaagstra
In Ontario, the government has combined academic and applied math courses.
Nova Scotia’s health-care wait times remain among longest in Canada [[link removed]]
by Alex Whalen and Mackenzie Moir
At 58.2 weeks, the province’s median wait time is more than double the national average.
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