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Generating Electricity in Canada from Wind and Sunlight: Is Getting Less for More Better than Getting More for Less?

Generating Electricity in Canada from Wind and Sunlight: Is Getting Less for More Better than Getting More for Less? is a new study that finds, despite rhetoric that renewable energy is cheap, wind and solar power generation actually comes with large—yet often ignored—costs that increase electricity prices for residents and businesses. And generating electricity from variable renewable energy sources, such as wind and sunlight, benefits the environment less than advocates claim.

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Lessons from the Quebec Universal Prescription Drug Insurance Program

Lessons from the Quebec Universal Prescription Drug Insurance Program finds that Quebec’s universal pharmacare system, which relies on both a public plan and private insurance providers, covers more drugs and provides quicker access to new medicines than other Canadian provinces. For example, of all the drugs approved by Health Canada from 2008 to 2017, 33.4 per cent are listed on Quebec’s public formulary compared to 25.6 per cent in other provinces (on average).

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Highly Educated Immigrants: Economic Contributions and Implications for Public Policy

Highly Educated Immigrants: Economic Contributions and Implications for Public Policy finds that Canada is successful at welcoming educated immigrants every year, but when it comes to the most educated immigrants around the world—those with PhDs—the United States remains a more attractive destination. In fact, from 2006 to 2016, approximately 1.5 per cent of immigrants to Canada had PhDs , compared to more than two per cent for the U.S.

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Assessing Canada's Energy Sector Competitiveness: Collected Essays

Assessing Canada’s Energy Sector Competitiveness is a new collection of essays that highlights how several government policies have weakened Canada’s ability to attract investment in the energy sector, all the while investment in the United States has soared.

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Universal Insurance for Pharmaceuticals in Switzerland and the Netherlands

Universal Insurance for Pharmaceuticals in Switzerland and the Netherlands is a new study that highlights positive reform lessons from Switzerland and the Netherlands—two countries that provide universal access to high-quality health care with shorter wait times, greater availability of medical resources, and often superior outcomes compared to Canada. And importantly, both countries also maintain universal coverage for pharmaceuticals.

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Technology, Automation, and Employment

Technology, Automation, and Employment: Will this Time be Different? is a new essay series that finds despite dire predictions, burgeoning technologies (including automation, artificial intelligence and robotization) will likely not lead to substantial job losses in Canada and beyond.

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Private Sector Capital Expenditures in Canada: An Industry-Level Analysis finds that business investment has recently declined in two-thirds of the non-government sectors that make up the Canadian economy, representing the most severe drop in investment in at least 30 years, a period that includes several recessions. Crucially, business investment is key to raising living standards and increasing economic prosperity for Canadians.

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