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Canada’s Growing Housing Gap: Comparing Population Growth and Housing Completions in Canada, 1972-2022 finds that the gap between the number of homes built and the number of additional people in Canada is the widest it’s been in 50 years.

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Mental Health Care: How is Canada Doing?

Mental Health Care: How is Canada Doing? compares Canada’s mental health services to other countries with universally accessible health care and finds that, despite the Canadian government spending a larger share of health dollars on mental health services, Canada has relatively fewer psychiatric care beds (ranking 22nd out of 28 nations), psychiatrists (ranking 16th out of 28 nations), and psychologists (ranking 15th out of 26 nations) in addition to growing wait times.

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Report Card on British Columbia’s Elementary Schools 2023

Report Card on British Columbia’s Elementary Schools 2023 ranks 932 public and independent elementary schools based on 8 academic indicators derived from the provincewide Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) results, with findings that suggest every school can improve regardless of type, location, and student characteristics.

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Report Card on Alberta’s Elementary Schools 2023

Report Card on Alberta’s Elementary Schools 2023 ranks 848 public, Catholic, independent and charter schools based on eight academic indicators derived from provincewide test results, with the data suggest every school can improve regardless of type, location, and student characteristics.

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COVID-19, Hygiene Theatre, Masks, and Lockdowns: “Solid Science” or Science Veneer?

COVID-19, Hygiene Theatre, Masks, and Lockdowns: “Solid Science” or Science Veneer? is the latest installment in the Institute’s essay series on the COVID-19 pandemic. This essay examines whether government policy responses followed the science and evidence extant at the time of COVID’s emergence and progression through the population, or whether governments followed the science selectively to create more of a veneer of science than a solid policy foundation.

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The Free Enterprise Welfare State: A History of Denmark’s Unique Economic Model (Chapter 1)

Denmark: Getting Rich Before Becoming a Welfare State, part of an upcoming essay series documenting the economic history of Denmark, finds that high levels of economic freedom—that is, relying more on entrepreneurs, businessowners and workers to make economic decisions rather than politicians and bureaucrats—drive Denmark’s high living standards.

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Lessons from the Public-Private Partnerships in Surgical Care in Quebec

Lessons from the Public Private Partnerships in Surgical Care in Quebec finds that private surgical clinics play an increasingly large role in Quebec’s universal health care system, following a 2006 Supreme Court ruling that allows private surgical clinics to perform select surgeries covered by the Quebec health-care system. In fact, private surgical clinics now perform 1-in-6 government-funded day surgeries in the province.

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