With Christmas just around the corner, the Fraser Institute will release its annual study measuring donations to registered charities in Canada’s 10 provinces and three territories, the 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. The study, Generosity in Canada and the United States: The 2015 Generosity Index, breaks down the data by province and state, allowing … Read more
The Fraser Institute will release the Economic Freedom of North America: 2015 Report. The report ranks jurisdictions in Canada, the United States and Mexico based on their levels of economic freedom (measured in size of government, taxation, regulation, etc.) using data from 2013, the most recent year of available data. The full report will be … Read more
The Canadian Commercial Corporation will hold its annual public meeting online. A requirement of all Crown Corporations, this annual event provides a public forum in which to discuss CCC’s results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015, outline the Corporation’s high-level strategic themes anticipated in future years, and ask any questions you may have … Read more
The Fraser Institute will release a new study comparing the growth of charter schools -autonomous public schools that provide alternative pedagogies and curriculum- between Canada and the United States. The study, A Primer on Charter Schools, highlights the mounting academic literature about the potential benefits of charter schools and their growing popularity in the U.S. … Read more
The Fraser Institute will release its annual report on health care wait times. The report, Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2015 Report, measures the amount of time patients across Canada must wait for surgical and other therapeutic treatments. The complete report, including charts of wait times for all provinces and … Read more
The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) will post a new report entitled “An Assessment of the Government’s Fiscal Outlook” on the website at www.pbo-dpb.gc.ca This report provides a brief assessment of the Government’s status quo fiscal outlook presented in its Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections 2015 . The full report will be available online.
The Fraser Institute’s 2015 Global Petroleum Survey -an international survey of senior executives in the upstream oil and gas sector – will be released Tuesday, December 1. The annual survey ranks 126 jurisdictions around the world based on their barriers to investment (ie: high taxes, costly regulatory obligations and uncertainty over environmental regulations). In addition to … Read more
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities presents FCM International’s leading municipal experts as they share how they help implement development projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Find out how this experience enriches their own work back in Canada. Registration is required for this webinar.
The Science, Technology and Innovation Council will release its most recent State of the Nation report as part of the Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa. State of the Nation 2014: Canada’s Innovation Challenges and Opportunities charts Canada’s progress from a baseline set in 2008 and compares Canada’s performance to global competitors across the business, knowledge … Read more
CMHC will release its 2015 Third Quarter Financial Report which includes unaudited quarterly consolidated financial statements and explanatory notes for the fiscal quarter and year-to-date and comparative information for the preceding fiscal year while also reporting on the use of appropriations. To further enhance transparency and expand the availability of data, CMHC will publish the … Read more
