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Financing the Canada Child Benefit, part two of an essay series on the Canada Child Benefit (CCB), finds that federal spending on benefits for eligible families with children through the CCB increased by 68.5 per cent from fiscal year 2014/15 to 2019/20—financed entirely by borrowing.
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Reforming BC Auto Insurance to Benefit Consumers finds that the Government of British Columbia’s ICBC reforms haven’t gone far enough and maintain ICBC’s monopoly on basic automobile insurance—which keeps rates higher than they would be in a more open insurance market.
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The Essential Robert Nozick spotlights the philosophy professor whose 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia—which argues for the supremacy of individual rights and minimal role for government—helped establish the classical liberal or libertarian perspective as a viable alternative to socialism.
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The Report Card on Quebec’s Secondary Schools 2020 ranks 473 public, independent, Francophone and Anglophone schools based largely on the results from provincewide tests in French, English, science and mathematics. The Report Card provides parents and educators with objective information that’s difficult to find anywhere else, which is why it’s the go-to source for school performance in Quebec.
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(Appeared in the Calgary Sun) by Steven Globerman
The relative size of government in Canada is well beyond the “optimal” size for promoting productivity growth.
by Jake Fuss, Jason Clemens, and Milagros Palacios
Canada ranks 6th highest among 35 high-income for the share of the economy represented by government spending.
by Yanick Labrie
Last year, British Columbia became the first province to introduce a mandatory biosimilar switching program for non-medical reasons.
by Tegan Hill and Milagros Palacios
Alberta's budget deficit will hit a projected $24.2 billion in 2020/21.
(Appeared in National Newswatch) by Niels Veldhuis and Jason Clemens
In Canada, housing and pension assets comprise the largest sources of household wealth.
(Appeared in National Newswatch) by Bacchus Barua
Every province offers drug coverage to social assistance recipients at low or no cost.
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