The Report Card on Alberta's Elementary Schools: 2007 Edition reports a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance. These indicators are used to calculate an overall rating for each school. On the basis of this rating, the schools are ranked. The Report Card brings all of this information together in one easily accessible public document so that anyone can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools. By doing so, the Report Card assists parents when they choose a school for their children and encourages and assists all those seeking to improve their schools.

This annual Report Card uses relevant, publicly-available data to rate and rank 705 of Alberta's public, separate, private, charter, and francophone elementary schools. This is the only comprehensive and widely-distributed Report Card on elementary schools available in Canada.

Since 1997, The Fraser Institute has conducted an annual survey of metal mining and exploration companies to assess how mineral endowments and public policy factors such as taxation and regulation affect exploration investment. Survey results represent the opinions of executives and exploration managers in mining and mining consulting companies operating around the world. The survey now covers 65 jurisdictions around the world, on every continent except Antartica, including sub-national jurisdictions in Canada, Australia, and the United States. This year, Colombia was added to the survey.

This study estimates and compares the average cost of personal passenger automobile insurance premiums in each of the 10 Canadian provinces for the years 2004 and 2005. Other studies have examined the price of auto insurance by selectively comparing individual cases across provinces. (CAC, 2003) It is often mistakenly believed that such comparisons reflect actual average premiums in each province. This error can lead to false conclusions regarding the relative cost of auto insurance. The purpose of this analysis is to clear up such misconceptions.