Having trouble viewing? Try the web version [link removed] of this email. Latest Research Per person federal spending in 2022 expected to exceed highest level of spending pre-COVID; exceeds $11,000—5.0 per cent higher than 2019 [[link removed]]
Prime Ministers and Government Spending:2023 Edition is a new study that finds federal spending reached $19,208 per-person in 2020-21, which represents the single highest level in the country’s history, with the current federal government is on track to record the five highest levels of per-person spending (2018 to 2022) in Canadian history.
Read More [[link removed]] New report finds more than 40 countries maintained restrictions on women’s economic rights from 2018 to 2020; 13 countries lifted restrictions [[link removed]]
This year’s report, Women's Economic Rights—Moving Closer to Gender Equality? tracks changes in economic freedom for women around the world and finds that 13 countries improved their Gender Disparity Index score by relaxing legal restrictions on women’s economic rights from 2018 to 2020, while 42 countries imposed greater restrictions on women’s economic rights.
Read More [[link removed]] B.C. elementary schools can improve student performance despite challenges [[link removed]]
The Report Card on British Columbia’s Elementary Schools 2022 ranks 870 public and independent elementary schools based on 10 academic indicators derived from the provincewide Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) results.
Read More [[link removed]] Banning carbon fuels and plastics—as called for by ESG advocates—will recreate and exacerbate the environmental problems these products once solved [[link removed]]
How Banning Carbon Fuels and Synthetic Products Will Hurt the Environment is a new essay in the Institute’s series on the ESG (environmental, social and governance) movement. It shows how the development of carbon fuels, refined petroleum products and synthetics such as plastics and composite materials have made it possible to meet the needs of growing and increasingly wealthier populations, while gradually diminishing the human footprint on the landscape. Banning them, especially when the world’s population is now much larger than when they first displaced other inputs and technologies, will only recreate and exacerbate the problems they once solved.
Read More [[link removed]] Commentary and Blog Posts Canada should increase productivity—not simply supercharge immigration [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Ottawa Sun) by Jock Finlayson
Federal policymakers seem uninterested in helping workers and businesses become more productive.
More than 70% of Albertans feel the average family is over-taxed [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Calgary Sun) by Jake Fuss and Tegan Hill
A majority of respondents in the province believe the average family should pay 25 per cent or less of its income in total taxes.
Don’t raise the Bank of Canada’s 2% inflation target [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Globe and Mail) by Lawrence Schembri and Steven Globerman
Reductions in purchasing power tend to be concentrated among lower-income workers.
Alberta government wastes generational opportunity to restore provincial finances [[link removed]] (Appeared in National Newswatch) by Tegan Hill
If it held the line on spending, the government could have run a $6.7 billion surplus in 2023/24.
Ottawa’s ‘just transition’ relies on future historic technological breakthroughs [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Western Standard) by Jason Clemens and Elmira Aliakbari
The federal government is limiting growth in electricity generation from traditional sources while increasingly reliance on intermittent sources.
Ford government should consult the data amid calls for government pay increases [[link removed]] by Ben Eisen and Jake Fuss
Government workers in Ontario retire 2.5 years earlier (on average) than those in the private sector.
B.C. ramps up spending and increases size of government [[link removed]] by Jock Finlayson
Public-sector capital investment is pegged at $48.5 billion over the next three years.
Alberta’s new spending rule—the good, the bad and the ugly [[link removed]] by Ben Eisen and Jake Fuss
The province’s current spending levels greatly exceed its tax revenues.
More money doesn’t necessarily produce a better education [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Epoch Times) by Michael Zwaagstra
British Columbia's math scores are now worse than the national average.
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