Who was Barbara Mitchell?

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The Fraser Institute's 11th annual waiting list survey found that waiting time for surgical and other therapeutic treatments grew significantly in 2000-01.

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Many experts have diagnosed medicare in Canada as an ailing system in need of treatment. Commission after commission has agreed that the health care system, under pressures of an expanding and aging population, and growing demands for new technologies and prescription drugs, cannot be sustained by endless public funds.

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The provision of welfare and related services is a sensitive undertaking requiring a delicate balance between the compassionate delivery of services to those in need and the maintenance of fiscal prudence. Both Canada and the United States reformed welfare in the last eight years. Reforms in the United States went further and have been more successful. This study summarizes the reforms undertaken in both countries with emphasis placed on successful innovations and experimentation.

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The war on drugs is lost and prohibition has been a complete failure. These are the conclusions of Sensible Solutions to the Urban Drug Problem . Originally based on papers presented to two Fraser Institute conferences.

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This study looks at retail prices of three patented prescription drugs in three American and three Canadian areas along the border between Canada and the United States. Although finding that Canadian prices are significantly lower than American prices, it also finds significant differences in prices within each of these areas, as well as between areas in the same country.

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Since the publication of Poverty in Canada in 1992 there has been a renewed debate about the definition and measurement of poverty in this country. It is understandable that some of the discussion has been heated and emotional as this is an important policy issue and there are widely differing perspectives about poverty. Researchers and policy makers are now giving considerable thought and discussion to what appeared to be a settled issue a decade ago.

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This book considers the potential of market-based policies to address the problems facing Canadian education. It offers the results of systematic research into the effects that other market-based education reforms have had in Canada and around the world where they have been tried and tested, in some cases for years, in others for generations.

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