Having trouble viewing? Try the web version [link removed] of this email. Latest Research As share of total K-12 enrolment nationwide, independent school enrolment up 45%, public school enrolment down 3.7% since 2000/01 [[link removed]]
Where Our Students Are Educated: Measuring Student Enrolment in Canada, 2026 finds that the share of K-12 students enrolled at independent schools across Canada—as a share of total enrolment—increased 45 per cent from 2000/01 to 2023/24, and now stands at nearly 1-in-12 students, whereas the share of students in government-run public schools declined.
Read More [[link removed]] Improving Canada’s energy and tax policies could increase business investment and restore the country’s competitiveness [[link removed]]
Strategies to Secure Canadian Energy Sovereignty finds that updating Canada’s climate, tax and regulatory policies instituted over the previous decade would attract domestic and foreign capital investments in the country’s expansive and broad energy sector, including hydroelectricity, crude oil, natural gas, electricity, and uranium.
Read More [[link removed]] Commentary and Blog Posts Carney government’s ‘export’ plan relies on Canada’s natural resource sector [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Ottawa Sun) by Jock Finlayson
Resource industries also loom large when thinking about how to increase Canada’s exports and diversify our export markets.
B.C. government’s land deals with First Nations threaten its ability to borrow money [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Globe & Mail) By: Tegan Hill, Jason Clemens and John Budreski
The Eby government has been busy negotiating a series of agreements with First Nations, granting them Aboriginal title and/or co-governance over large swaths of land in British Columbia.
Low-income families least likely to benefit from Ottawa’s multibillion-dollar child-care program [[link removed]] (Appeared in National Newswatch) by Matthew Lau
Indigenous and visible minority children were less likely than the rest of the population to use centre-based child care.
Socialism—the newest old idea that won’t work [[link removed]] (Appeared in The Dispatch) By: Matthew D. Mitchell
“It is characteristic of the unlearned,” observed Calvin Coolidge in 1919, “that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.”
Say hello to Canada’s new de facto EV sales mandate [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Calgary Sun) by Kenneth P. Green
Canada has a serious problem with excessive and poorly-designed regulation, particularly in the domains of environment, health and safety.
Ottawa continues to constrain provincial health-care policy options [[link removed]] by Nadeem Esmail, Mackenzie Moir and Jaiden Ahuja
Between 2014 and 2024, Ottawa levied $267 million in deductions for provincial non-compliance.
B.C. government must repeal DRIPA to end province’s property rights crisis [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Western Standard) by Julio Mejía and Tegan Hill
Under DRIPA, mine development increasingly faces Indigenous veto power.
Here’s how to attract investment to Newfoundland despite Trump’s tariffs [[link removed]] by Alex Whalen
Policymakers can help improve the investment climate by enacting better policies.
Health-care waits cost Nova Scotians in more ways than one [[link removed]] by Alex Whalen and Mackenzie Moir
Nova Scotians lost an estimated $217,970,000 in wages, productivity and impacted time while waiting for treatment in 2025.
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