Human Freedom Index: A Global Measurement of Personal, Civil, and Economic Freedom compares the level of human freedom in 152 countries using 76 indicators in areas that include freedom of speech, religion, individual economic choice, and women’s freedoms. It finds that Canada ranks sixth in the world while the United States ranks 20th.

Lessons for Ontario and Canada from Forced Retirement Saving Mandates in Australia examines the options available to the Ontario government for designing its mandatory provincial pension program.  Specifically, it notes that Australia’s system of forced individual retirement saving accounts — which more closely resemble Canada’s RRSP’s — could serve as a model instead of the Canada Pension Plan.

Economic Freedom, Individual Perceptions of Life Control, and Life Satisfaction explores the positive relationship between a country’s level of economic freedom and its population’s level of life satisfaction (or happiness). It finds that living in an economically free country actually plays a greater role in one’s life satisfaction than does income, age, employment or even a country’s political system.