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Polling Canadians on Taxes for the Average Family, based on a new Leger poll in early 2023 that surveyed 1,554 Canadians about their opinions on the tax burdens imposed on families, finds that 80 per cent of Canadians across the country support the average family paying 40 per cent or less of their income in total taxes to all levels of government.
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Ontario Premiers and Provincial Government Spending is a new study that reviews annual per-person program spending (inflation-adjusted) by Ontario premiers from 1965 to 2021, and finds that the highest single year of per-person spending on record was under Premier Doug Ford in 2020.
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Saskatchewan Premiers and Provincial Government Spending is a new study that reviews annual per-person program spending (inflation-adjusted) by Saskatchewan premiers from 1965 to 2021, and finds that the highest single year of per-person spending on record was under Premier Scott Moe in 2021, even excluding COVID-related spending.
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Environmental Markets vs. Environmental Mandates: Capturing Prosperity and Environmental Quality is a new essay in the Institute’s series on the ESG (environmental, social and governance) movement. It shows that the same institutions that promote economic growth—secure property rights and the rule of law—also promote environmental quality because the former creates the conditions for environmental improvement by raising the demand for improved environmental quality and by making resources—natural and human—more abundant.
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Dr. Jayme Lemke joins host Rosemarie Fike to discuss the ways in which markets and economic progress can impact the lives of women, including: the difference between feminist activism and feminist philosophy, artificial restrictions created via institutional setbacks, informal institutions, and cultural failures. They even discuss the economist's opinion on household labour and matters of choice.
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(Appeared in the Toronto Sun) by Kenneth P. Green
Metal and mineral commodities are just as prone to boom-bust cycles as fossil fuels.
by Jake Fuss and Tegan Hill
The province will run a $4.2 billion operating budget deficit in 2023/24.
(Appeared in the Financial Post) by Jason Clemens and Steven Globerman
Support for socialism drops from 50 per cent among Canadians 18-24 years old to 38 per cent among Canadians over 55.
by Tegan Hill and Milagros Palacios
Program spending is projected to be $4.2 billion higher in 2023/24 than budgeted just a few months ago.
(Appeared in the Edmonton Sun) by Matthew Lau
The government heavily tilted the field against private operators who serve the majority of the market.
(Appeared in Business in Vancouver) by Ben Eisen
Oregon's per-person GDP was 20 per cent higher than in B.C.
(Appeared in True North) by Tegan Hill and Jake Fuss
The federal government paid $37.7 billion in wage subsidies to businesses with tax debts.
(Appeared in the Calgary Sun) by Ben Eisen and Tegan Hill
It would be irresponsible for the Smith government to repeat the mistakes of past governments.
(Appeared in National Newswatch) by Steve Lafleur
Non-resident investors owned only 2.5 per cent of all houses in the province.
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