As Canadian universities restructure, they need to focus on providing the highest quality of teaching and scholarship. This paper presents a new perspective for evaluating and differentially rewarding teachers.

Since 1997, The Fraser Institute has been surveying mining companies each year to assess how mineral endowments and public policy factors such as taxation and regulation affect exploration investment. Survey results represent the opinions of exploration managers in mining companies operating around the world. As the popularity of the survey has grown, we have expanded it to include more jurisdictions.

The purpose of this study is to examine the consequences of the changed status of the commissions through a review of the behaviour of the ASC, BCSC, and OSC. Evidence suggests the reduced financial accountability inherent in the commissions' changed status appears to have worked to the detriment of low-cost, efficient regulation of the securities industry.