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FRASER UPDATE
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Latest Research
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Pre-COVID (2019) median employment income in Nova Scotia was more than $4,400 lower compared to the average for provinces outside Atlantic Canada
Comparing Median Employment Income in the Atlantic Region to the Rest of Canada is a new study that focuses on Atlantic Canada compared to central and western Canada, and finds that the average median employment income in Atlantic Canada in 2019 was $32,175 while in central and western Canada the average median employment income was $37,583—16.8 per cent higher.
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Lockdowns reduced COVID deaths by just 3.2% but imposed significant economic costs and increased non-COVID deaths
Lockdown: A Final Assessment spotlights how government lockdowns during the pandemic did little to reduce COVID deaths yet imposed widespread economic and social costs including an increase in deaths not directly linked to COVID.
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Repeated COVID lockdowns the result of political “doubling down”
Why Did Jurisdictions Repeatedly Use Inefficient Lockdowns During the COVID-19 Pandemic? examines the behaviour of governments who enacted and enforced lockdown policies they knew were ineffective and/or misguided.
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ESG is about politicians and bureaucrats controlling the use of other people’s money, rather than individuals themselves deciding what to do with their own money
ESG Is Mainly Top-Down Planning by Elites is a new essay in the Institute’s series on the Environmental, Social and Governance movement. In it, adjunct scholar Matt Lau details how the refocus of business and financial activity toward ESG concerns has been pushed from above by government bodies and politically powerful organizations at the expense of individual investors.
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Commentary and Blog Posts
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Ottawa denies natural gas to another trading partner and perpetuates fictitious agenda [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Financial Post) by Kenneth P. Green
The pursuit of a rapid energy transition is causing massive environmental degradation.
Alberta needs fundamental reform to tackle health-care wait times [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Calgary Sun) by Tegan Hill and Bacchus Barua
Patients in the province faced a median wait of 33.3 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment.
Ontario government has failed to fix math education in the province [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Hamilton Spectator) by Michael Zwaagstra
The Toronto school board wants to lift the “veil of objectivity” from mathematics.
Federal government’s ‘consultation’ thinly-veiled prescription for more spending [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Ottawa Sun) by Matthew Lau
Due to Liberal government reforms in the 1990s, per-person program spending dropped by 15.5 per cent.
B.C. government ramped up spending after 2017 election [[link removed]]
by Ben Eisen
The provincial budget forecasts a large increase in debt over the next few years relative to the size of the economy.
If we’re not ready, immigration comes with heavy costs [[link removed]]
by Livio Di Matteo
Without accompanying business investment, an increased labour supply will lead to lower per-capita income growth.
Erasing Canadian history is a bad idea [[link removed]]
(Appeared in True North) by Michael Zwaagstra
Sir John A. Macdonald’s name and likeness is rapidly disappearing from the public square.
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