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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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More than 80% of Canadian parents of kids in K-12 schools support standardized testing
Strong Parental Support for Standardized Testing across Canada is a new study that finds 84 per cent of parents of school-aged children in Canada support standardized testing to understand how their child and their child’s school are performing in reading, writing and mathematics, according to a new Leger poll.
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New essay celebrates key ideas and contributions of economist and Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom
The essay, part of the Essential Women of Liberty series, spotlights Elinor Ostrom, the first woman awarded the Nobel Prize in economics.
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Commentary and Blog Posts
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Unvaxxed Quebecers should pay portion of their health-care bill—so should everyone else [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Montreal Gazette) by Bacchus Barua and Mackenzie Moir
Cost-sharing payments for health care incentivize patients to make better choices.
Latest inflation numbers may be sign of things to come [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Windsor Star) by Jake Fuss
The price of meat has increased by 9 per cent in Canada.
Red tape continues to hurt investment in Alberta’s energy sector [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Calgary Sun) by Jairo Yunis and Tegan Hill
Ottawa's hard cap on greenhouse gas emissions in the oil and gas sector will only make matters worse.
Federal government has increased income taxes on middle class [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Epoch Times) by Jake Fuss, Milagros Palacios, and Nathaniel Li
Nearly nine in 10 middle-class families now pay more personal income taxes.
Ontario cities experiencing dismal population and job growth [[link removed]]
by Ben Eisen and Steve Lafleur
Several major cities including Windsor and Thunder Bay experienced a rate of job creation below the national average.
Most Nova Scotia parents feel pandemic policies have hurt their child’s education [[link removed]]
by Paige MacPherson and Alex Whalen
Students in the province have missed at least 21 weeks of in-class learning in less than two years.
Canada’s chronic health-care problems will likely persist post-pandemic [[link removed]]
by Mackenzie Moir and Bacchus Barua
Canada ranked 25th out of 26 countries for the number of acute care beds.
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