Home Schooling in Canada: The Current Picture—2015 finds that 21,662 Canadian children were registered as ‘home-school students’ (with likely more not officially registered) in 2012, an increase of 29 per cent over a five-year period. Moreover, it appears that policymakers are paying attention to the jump in numbers:  Since 2007, at least five provinces have updated or expanded regulations with regard to home schooling.

Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Canada calculates that, on average, government workers in Canada, including federal, provincial, and local government workers, receive 9.7 per cent higher wages than comparable workers in the private sector.  There are also strong indicators that the government sector, as a whole,  enjoys superior non-wage benefits.

Municipal Amalgamation in Ontario spotlights the economic effects of Ontario’s push for municipal consolidation in the 1990s. Building on the plethora of research about the shortcomings of amalgamation in the province’s big cities, the study examines the experiences of some of Ontario’s rural communities and finds that — like in the larger cities — the promised cost savings and lower property taxes didn’t materialize.