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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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The best evidence was ignored during COVID because of ideology
Politicized Science, by journalist and bestselling author John Tierney, is the next installment in the Institute’s series on COVID-19 that details why sound public health science and best practices were ignored during the pandemic in favour of restrictive lockdowns and other mandates with devastating results.
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Central planners can’t know what regulations to impose on people and businesses in a pandemic, and it showed in COVID
The Abject Failure of Central Planning During COVID is a new essay in the Institute’s series on COVID-19 by Senior Fellow David R. Henderson that explores some of the core reasons why many government plans and policies failed during the pandemic.
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Commentary and Blog Posts
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Texas remains much more attractive than Alberta in eyes of energy investors [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Edmonton Sun) by Julio Mejia and Tegan Hill
Almost three-quarters of respondents said the cost of regulatory compliance was a deterrent to investment in the province.
School choice would help liberate students from bad schools [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Ottawa Sun) by Matthew Lau
In Ontario public schools, the quality of math education has also declined.
Ontario’s fiscal challenges—is there political will to address them? [[link removed]]
by Ben Eisen and Jake Fuss
Despite years of criticizing its predecessors for reckless spending, the Ford government has followed a similar fiscal path.
Canada’s health-care wait times hit record high of 27.4 weeks [[link removed]]
(Appeared in True North) by Mackenzie Moir and Bacchus Barua
This year’s median wait is almost three times longer than the wait recorded in the first national survey in 1993.
Charitable giving on the wane in Atlantic Canada [[link removed]]
by Alex Whalen and Jake Fuss
Between 2010 and 2020, the percentage of tax filers giving to charity decreased by 24.7 per cent in Nova Scotia.
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