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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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COVID school closures across Canada lasted 50 to 135 days minimum depending on province; imposing life-long costs on children
The Forgotten Demographic: Assessing the Possible Benefits and Serious Cost of COVID-19 School Closures on Canadian Children is a new study that finds prolonged COVID school closures imposed across Canada from 2020 to 2022 will impose life-long costs on affected children, despite evidence available to policymakers early on that closures wouldn’t slow the transmission of COVID-19, including learning loss, increased inequality, and a spike in mental health problems.
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Essential Scholars Explained Podcast
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Ronald Coase: Reconciling Theory with Reality [[link removed]]
Dr. Lynne Kiesling, author of The Essential Ronald Coase, joins host Rosemarie Fike to discuss Ronald Coase, one of the most influential economic thinkers of the 20th century, including his dissection of Price Theory in favour of real market evidence and tenure at the University of Chicago Law School that eventually lead to his Nobel Prize.
Commentary and Blog Posts
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Government spending doesn’t buy happiness [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Toronto Sun) by Matthew Lau
Ottawa's child-care program simply shifted the form of care away from parents’ preference and towards the government-subsidized option.
Toronto’s proposed sales tax is a cautionary tale for all Canadians [[link removed]]
(Appeared in National Newswatch) by Jake Fuss
Irresponsible spending and borrowing leads to tax increases today or in the future.
B.C.’s new curriculum will shortchange students [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Globe and Mail) by Michael Zwaagstra
There's a direct relationship between background knowledge about the topic of a book and one’s ability to understand it.
Understanding universal health care, Part 5: Cost-Sharing for Patients in New Zealand [[link removed]]
by Mackenzie Moir and Bacchus Barua
Physicians who set their own fees determine the level of patient co-payment.
Ottawa’s new emissions plan—all pain, no gain [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Calgary Herald) by Julio Mejía and Elmira Aliakbari
The cap would lead to at least $45 billion in lost economic activity in 2030 alone.
B.C. teacher union wages wrongheaded war on student testing [[link removed]]
by Derek J. Allison
The province's Grade 4 students suffered learning losses due to pandemic disruptions.
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