Select Cost Sharing in Universal Health Care Countries examines the utilization of health-care user fees — for access to hospitals, general practitioners or specialists — in other countries which, like Canada, have accessible and high-performing universal health care. It finds that Canada remains one of the few universal access countries that doesn’t require patients to participate in paying for care through some form of cost sharing.

Pipelines or Policies: What’s Behind the Fall in Investor Confidence in Alberta, spotlights recent oil industry tribulations — such as the Keystone XL pipeline announcement and the Alberta government’s decision to move forward with an energy royalty review — to determine what events have had a greater effect on investor perceptions.

Income Mobility, The Rich and Poor in Canada, finds that the notion that the rich are gaining at the expense of low income Canadians is false and contradicted by data on income mobility – the fact that people’s incomes change over time.