Who was Barbara Mitchell?

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Regrettably, the non-profit sector’s valuable contribution to Canadian society often goes unrecognized. The Donner Canadian Foundation Awards for Excellence in the Delivery of Social Services were established in 1998 as a means of both providing this recognition and rewarding excellence and efficiency in the delivery of social services by non-profit agencies across the country. The national scope and $60,000 purse makes the Donner Awards Canada’s largest non-profit recognition program. Since 1998, $960,000 has been granted to Canadian non-profits through the Donner Awards.

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This Fraser Institute survey of independent schools throughout the Lower Mainland found that 57.3 percent of schools reported a waitlist for enrolment in 2011/12. Of those schools, almost 80 percent said that waitlists had been the norm for the past three years.

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Lifting the Moratorium: The costs and benefits of offshore oil drilling in British Columbia considers the potential for offshore oil operations in BC. This study combines information from academic papers, government commissioned reports, and government databases in order to estimate the expected net benefits to Canadians from removing the federally imposed moratorium on offshore oil operations on Canada’s west coast.

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Use of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) has been growing rapidly in the Asia-Pacific region, mainly as an energy source for electric generation but also for distribution to residential, commercial, and industrial consumers. Growth in LNG use has been strongest in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, which together accounted for 86% of Asia-Pacific LNG trade in 2009.

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Fraser Forum is a monthly review of public policy in Canada, with articles covering taxation, education, health care policy, and a wide range of other topics. Forum writers are economists, Institute research analysts, and selected authors, including those from other public policy think tanks.

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Canadians often misunderstand the true cost of our public health care system. This occurs partly because Canadians do not incur direct expenses for their use of health care, and partly because Canadians cannot readily determine the value of their contribution to public health care insurance.

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The index published in Economic Freedom of the World 2012 measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. The cornerstones of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to compete, and security of privately owned property.

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