Who was Barbara Mitchell?

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The purpose of this study is to evaluate critically the role Canadian foreign aid has played in the development of targeted countries. Since the object of foreign aid should be the creation of economic growth (for reasons explained below), we examine research that looks at the effects of aid on growth and specific standard-of-living indicators.

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The 1999 Report Card on Alberta's High Schools 1999-06-01 The 1999 Report Card on Alberta's High Schools (hereafter, Report Card) combines a variety of relevant, publicly available, data to produce an academic rating of the province's high schools. This first Report Card is bas

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The 1999 budget provided an opportunity for the federal government to create the conditions under which Canadians could improve their investment returns and, at the same time, reduce portfolio risk through increased diversification. This they could have done by eliminating the Foreign Property Rule (FPR). Instead, bound to an antiquated and discredited industrial policy, the federal government chose to maintain the FPR.

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The proposed Nisga'a Treaty is forcing the lay public to do its first in-depth thinking about aboriginal policy in the nation's history.

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This study reviews the consequences of the exceptional rise in government spending in Canada that was sustained from World War II through the early 1990s.

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Year after year, social-action groups report that the total benefits available to welfare recipients are not enough to get these people above the poverty line: the implication is that recipients cannot cover the cost of the basic necessities.

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Who does better in school: boys or girls? Earlier in the decade much was written about the disadvantages that girls faced in the classroom. More recently it has been suggested that, in fact, it is the boys who are getting short-changed. Importantly, we find no conclusive evidence in the research that suggests that boys and girls are destined to achieve at different levels in any aspect of the academic program.

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