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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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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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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.
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(Appeared in the National Post) by Kenneth P. Green
The number of Canadian forest fires has sharply declined.
(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.
(Appeared in the Hub) by Vincent Geloso
According to forecasts, the federal deficit will eclipse $40 billion this year.
(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.
(Appeared in the Edmonton Sun) by Tegan Hill
Future governments can easily and unilaterally change any law passed by the legislature.
(Appeared in the Epoch Times) by Michael Zwaagstra
In Ontario, the government has combined academic and applied math courses.
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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