Who was Barbara Mitchell?

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This Fraser Alert looks at three dimensions of Canada's physician shortage. It begins with a short review of the literature examining whether or not a greater supply of physicians provides benefits other than easier access to care. The next section considers how Canada's physician supply has evolved over time and what factors have helped determine that evolution. The final section closes with a consideration of what is ultimately driving the physician shortage in Canada and provides a sensible solution to the problem.

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Salmon farming, or aquaculture, has become a regular news feature in British Columbia. Headlines portray an environmentally destructive industry. But is this really the case? What concrete scientific evidence do we have for such claims? As we dig deeper, it appears that scientific research does not back up the supposed threat of escaped farmed salmon.

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This is a chapter from the book What States Can Do to Reform Health Care: A Free-Market Primer. Seven leading scholars contributed chapters to this book, which focuses on Medicaid, health insurance, hospital certificate-of-need laws, malpractice liability, physician quality assurance, prescription piracy, and pharmaceutical costs.

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The Report Card on Alberta's High Schools: 2006 Edition collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, easily accessible document so that anyone can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools. The Report Card assists parents when they choose a school for their children and encourages and assists all those seeking to improve their schools.

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Report Card on Ontario's Elementary Schools: 2006 Edition 2006-06-01 The Report Card on Ontario's Elementary Schools: 2006 Edition collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, easily accessible public document so that anyone can analyz

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In this third volume of Canada Strong and Free, Mike Harris and Preston Manning propose to revitalize and rebalance Confederation to make Canada the best governed democratic federation federation in the world.

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The Report Card on British Columbia's Elementary Schools: 2006 Edition collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, accessible document so that anyone can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools. The Report Card assists parents choose a school for their children and encourages and assists all those seeking to improve their schools.

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