Who was Barbara Mitchell?

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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.

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In this report, we explicitly take a wide view, literally and figuratively, of the ramifications of legalized gambling. We investigate legalized gambling in four countries: Canada, the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

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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.

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International Evidence on the Effects of Having No Capital Gains Taxes represents the second part of The Fraser Institute's ongoing effort to study the costs and benefits of capital gains taxation in Canada.

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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.

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D'ailleurs, le journal Le Devoir indiquait en décembre dernier que le nombre de demandes d'admission pour les écoles ayant fait bonne figure au Bulletin avait augmenté sensiblement. Une enquête auprès de 525 adultes québécois - parents ou non - a révélé que 75 % d'entre eux considèrent que le Bulletin constitue un moyen novateur pour améliorer les écoles de la province

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Report Card on Quebec's Secondary Schools: 2001 Edition. When the Report Card on Quebec's Secondary Schools was introduced last year, the reaction was immediate. Hundreds of reports and editorials appeared in newspapers and on radio and television across the province.

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