Having trouble viewing? Try the web version [link removed] of this email. Latest Research [[link removed]] Estonian incomes, living standards, life expectancy improved dramatically after transition to market democracy [[link removed]]

The Road to Freedom: Estonia’s Rise from Soviet Vassal State to One of the Freest Nations on Earth finds that after Estonia ended socialist rule and transitioned back to a market democracy, Estonians enjoyed vast improvements in incomes, living standards and other key measures of prosperity.

Read More [[link removed]] Canadian generosity hits lowest point in 20 years [[link removed]]

Generosity in Canada: The 2023 Generosity Index is a new study that finds the percentage of Canadian tax filers donating to charity during the 2021 tax year—just 17.7 per cent—is the lowest proportion of Canadians donating since at least 2001, with Manitoba having had the highest percentage of tax filers that donated to charity among the provinces (19.7 per cent) during the 2021 tax year while New Brunswick had the lowest (15.4 per cent).

Read More [[link removed]] Robert Nozick Part 2: An Examined Life [[link removed]]

Dr. Aeon J. Skoble, Professor of Philosophy at Bridgewater State University and author of The Essential Nozick, once again joins host Rosemarie Fike to discuss Nozick's perennial philosophical insights and how they might be applied today, including personal autonomy, the inherent morality in limited government, and even what a future society based on these core principles could look like.

Commentary and Blog Posts Ottawa’s new dental care benefit offers lessons for health-care reform [[link removed]] by Jason Clemens and Mackenzie Moir

Among universal health-care countries, Canada ranks poorly on several key indictors including number of hospital beds.

There are no solutions to Canada’s housing crisis—only trade-offs [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Globe and Mail) by Josef Filipowicz

The country requires an estimated 5.8 million new homes to restore a semblance of affordability by 2030.

Cost of government debt rising for British Columbians [[link removed]] by Ben Eisen and Jake Fuss

By 2025/26, the province will spend an estimated $4.1 billion on debt interest—an increase of 53 per cent over three years.

Canada’s big cities lag behind U.S. cities on middle-income earnings [[link removed]] (Appeared in National Newswatch) by Ben Eisen

The median employment income in the lowest-ranked U.S. city was $1,528 higher than in Toronto.

Growing gap between housing supply and demand threatens affordability in Quebec [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Montreal Gazette) by Josef Filipowicz

Population growth in the province has ballooned while homebuilding numbers remain virtually unchanged.

B.C. government sends patients to U.S. while fighting private options in B.C. [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Vancouver Sun) by Mackenzie Moir and Bacchus Barua

The total wait between referral to treatment for oncology in B.C. is now about twice as long as the Canadian average.

Case for tax hikes much weaker than you think [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Financial Post) by Matthew Lau

The federal government raised the top income tax rate from 29 per cent to 33 per cent.

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