Who was Barbara Mitchell?
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Expansion in Charter School Jurisdictions in US; Stagnation in Canada

A Primer on Charter Schools, spotlights the growth in and outcomes of charter schools—autonomous public schools that provide alternative pedagogies and curriculum—in both Canada and the United States. It finds that, while  the number of students attending charter schools in the United States has grown dramatically over the past decade, Alberta remains the only province in Canada with legislation allowing such schools.

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Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2015 Report

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2015 Report is an annual survey of physicians, from across the country, which examines the total wait time faced by patients across 12 medical specialities. The study reports a median wait time — from referral by a general practitioner (ie: a family doctor) to consultation with a specialist, and subsequent receipt of treatment — of 18.3 weeks, up slightly from 18.2 weeks in 2014.

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Economic Freedom of the Arab World 2015 Annual Report

United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Bahrain are the top three most economically-free nations in the Arab world, according to Economic Freedom of the Arab World: 2015 Annual Report, co-published by the Fraser Institute, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty, and International Research Foundation. This report compares and ranks 21 Arab nations in five areas of economic freedom: size of government, including expenditures, taxes and enterprises; commercial and economic law and security of property rights; access to sound money; freedom to trade internationally; and regulation of credit, labour and business.

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Global Petroleum Survey 2015

The Fraser Institute’s 2015 Global Petroleum Survey —an international survey of senior executives in the upstream oil and gas sector-- ranks 126 jurisdictions around the world based on their barriers to investment (ie: high taxes, costly regulatory obligations and uncertainty over environmental regulations). In addition to the most current rankings, the annual survey allows for regional comparisons and analysis of jurisdictions that have improved, or fallen behind, in terms of government policies that deter oil and gas investment.

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Investor Perceptions of Alberta’s Oil and Gas Policy Changes is a special bulletin examining the Fraser Institute’s 2015 Global Petroleum Survey results for the province of Alberta. The bulletin reveals that perceptions about Alberta as a place to invest are deteriorating thanks in-part to the Alberta government’s recent energy policy initiatives such as an increase to the corporate income tax, changes to environmental policies and a review of the province’s energy royalties.

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Toward Free Trade in Canada

Following the conclusion of negotiations for the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union, the study, Toward Free Trade in Canada: Five Things the Federal Government Can Do To Open our Internal Market, outlines several opportunities for freer trade among Canadian provinces.

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For-profit Hospitals and Insurers in Universal Health Care Countries spotlights how six countries—Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland—make use of for-profit health care within their universal systems. It finds, that based on the experiences of these countries, for-profit hospitals and insurers are compatible with universal health care.

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