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Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries 2024
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Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries, 2024

| By: Mackenzie Moir and Bacchus Barua

Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries, 2024 finds that despite high levels of spending, Canada has among the lowest availability of doctors, hospital beds, and most medical technologies—and some of the longest wait times—when compared to a group of 31 high-income countries that also have universally accessible health care.

K-12 Education Reform in British Columbia
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K-12 Education Reform in British Columbia

| By: Michael Zwaagstra and Max Shang

K-12 Education Reform in British Columbia finds that from 2012/13 to 2021/22, per-student spending (adjusted for inflation) increased in BC from $13,839 to $14,767, but over the same 10-year period, student performance declined substantially. In fact, the average scores for BC students on the international Programme for International Assessment (PISA) tests in math dropped from 522 in 2012 to 496 in 2022. Scores also declined in reading (535 to 511) and science (544 to 519).

An Avalanche of Money
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An Avalanche of Money: The Federal Government’s Policies Toward First Nations

| By: Tom Flanagan

An Avalanche of Money: The Federal Government’s Policies Toward First Nations finds that while federal spending on Indigenous affairs has almost tripled since 2015, the uptick in Indigenous living standards is due primarily to the Canada Child Benefit, an unrelated federal program for families with children.

Report Card on Quebec’s Secondary Schools
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Report Card on Quebec’s Secondary Schools 2024

| By: Yanick Labrie, Peter Cowley, Joel Emes and Max Shang

The Report Card on Quebec’s Secondary Schools 2024 ranks 465 public, independent, francophone and anglophone schools based on provincewide test results in French, English, science and mathematics during the 2022/23 academic year, finding that the province’s fastest-improving school— de la Rive in Lavaltrie —improved its rating from 1.4 (out of 10) in 2017 to 4.6 in 2023.

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