Event Location: Online

Maclean’s political editor Paul Wells will host a national leaders’ debate featuring Conservative leader Stephen Harper (Calgary Southwest, Alta.), NDP leader Thomas Mulcair (Outremont, Que.), Liberal leader Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) and Green Party leader Elizabeth May (Saanich-Gulf Islands, B.C.). The debate will be recorded in City’s Toronto studio and air live, commercial-free and with closed captioning, on City, OMNI.1, OMNI.2, … Read more

The Fraser Institute will release a new study on its website examining how income inequality is measured. “Income Inequality Measurement Sensitivities” measures income inequality over the past three decades, revealing how different definitions of income and households influence results and the effects of government transfers. The study will be available online. Call 416-363-6575 x 238.

The Fraser Institute will release a new essay exploring the relationship between a country’s level of economic freedom and its population’s level of life satisfaction (or happiness). Economic freedom is based on the cornerstones of personal choice, trade openness, freedom to compete, security of private property and judicial independence. The essay, Economic Freedom, Individual Perceptions … Read more

The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) will post a new report entitled “Update of the Budget 2015 Fiscal Outlook” on the Website at www.pbo-dpb.gc.ca. The PBO is responding to parliamentarians’ requests that it provide an update of the Government’s fiscal forecast in Budget 2015 using the Bank of Canada’s outlook in its July Monetary Policy Report. The PBO will update its own Economic … Read more

The Fraser Institute will release a study examining past increases to Canada Pension Plan (CPP) contributions and the effect on the private voluntary savings of Canadian households. In light of recent calls for an expanded Canada Pension Plan and a provincial pension plan in Ontario, Compulsory Government Pensions vs. Private Savings: The Effect of Previous … Read more

The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) will post a new report entitled “Fiscal Sustainability Report 2015” on the website at www.pbo-dpb.gc.ca. This report will provide an assessment of the long-term sustainability of government finances for three government sub-sectors: the federal government; subnational governments consisting of provinces, territories, local, and aboriginal governments; and, the Canada and Quebec Pension … Read more

The Fraser Institute will release a new study measuring the private cost, in lost wages and time, of waiting for health care in Canada. The study, The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, calculates the average value of time lost during the week for each of the estimated 937,345 patients waiting for … Read more

The Fraser Institute will release a new study examining how Alberta’s energy industry was affected by the province’s last royalty review in 2007. Drawing upon the Fraser Institute’s annual Global Petroleum Survey, Fallout from the 2007 Alberta Royalty Review Panel examines how the Ed Stelmach-era increase in energy royalty rates impacted perceptions of Alberta as … Read more

The Fraser Institute will release a new study exploring Canadian precedents of municipal de-amalgamation. De-Amalgamation in Canada: Breaking Up is Hard to Do builds on the mounting research that suggests the controversial merging of cities, both big and small, hasn’t resulted in meaningful cost savings or efficiencies. The full study will be available online. Call … Read more

The summer issues of the Business Outlook Survey and the Senior Loan Officer Survey will be released on Monday, 6 July 2015. More information is available online.