Fraser Institute

Sometimes the best way to shed the debt burden is to borrow more

We look at the top salaries for a range of Canadian charities

A new jobs study has Jason Kenney intrigued. Mike Moffatt explains why it’s wrong

If the goal is economic prosperity, simply lower taxes and cut red tape, says James Cowan

Assessing the performance of an entire national health system—if “system” is the word for any country’s amalgam doctors’ offices, walk-in clinics, imaging labs, hospitals and more—is notoriously difficult.

Why there’s no need to panic about the quality of care in Canada

Last week there appeared here an unofficial tally of those organizations and officials who oppose the government’s decision to do away with the mandatory long-form census. Several more expressions of concern have since been noted.

Postmedia’s Shannon Proudfoot finds a taker: a senior economist with the Fraser Institute willing to support the government’s changes to the census.

The province hasn’t gone bust, but it also never really boomed

I received a phone call a few days ago as I was getting ready to go to work. Like a lot of calls I get this time of year, it was a woman calling from a charity. I can’t remember what it was – childhood leukemia maybe – but as she was in the midst of telling me about their poster child for this year’s campaign, I cut her off. I said look, you’re wasting your breath, I won’t be giving. “Not even a small donation?” she asked. Nope, I said, rushing to get off the phone. As I was hanging up, the cliche making me cringe even before I’d formed the sentence, I said “I have another charity I give to.”

This Tory AGM will determine Stelmach’s future—and Alberta’s

The study says the consumption rate of the poor isn’t declining