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Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2020 Report

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2020 is a new study that finds Canada’s health-care wait times reached 22.6 weeks in 2020—the longest ever recorded—and 143 per cent higher than the 9.3 weeks Canadians waited in 1993, when the Fraser Institute began tracking medical wait times. Before this year, the longest recorded wait time was 21.2 weeks in 2017. Atlantic Canada has the longest wait times in the country this year, and Ontario recorded the shortest wait time, which was still more than four months long.

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The Essential Austrian Economics is a new book, website and animated video series that explores the key tenets of the Austrian school of economics—which emphasizes the preferences and actions of individuals—in an easily accessible way. Topics include government interventionism, business cycles, the market process, economic calculation and marginal thinking.

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The Great Convergence: Measuring the Fiscal Gap Between “Have” and “Have-Not” Provinces

The Great Convergence: Measuring the Fiscal Capacity Gap Between “Have” and “Have-Not” Provinces is a new study that finds the gap between the ability of Canada’s richer and poorer provinces to raise revenues is shrinking rapidly. If Alberta’s fiscal capacity gap continues to shrink relative to the rest of Canada, the province could soon become eligible for equalization transfers, which would affect transfers to other so-called “have not” provinces.

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An Evaluation of the Recent Performance of British Columbia’s Economy

An Evaluation of the Recent Performance of British Columbia’s Economy finds that any downturn in B.C.'s housing sector will have serious consequences for the provincial economy.

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The Distribution of the Canada Child Benefit by Family Type and Income Level

The Distribution of the Canada Child Benefit by Family Type and Income Level, part three of an essay series on the Canada Child Benefit (CCB), finds that families with between $100,000 and $120,000 of annual household income received (on average) roughly the same increase in cash benefits from the new CCB program than families with less than $20,000 of income.

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Report Card on British Columbia's Elementary Schools 2020

The Fraser Institute today released its annual Report Card on British Columbia’s Elementary Schools 2020, which ranks 931 public and independent elementary schools based on 10 academic indicators derived from provincewide Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) results.

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Economic Performance in Ontario CMAs: A National Comparative Perspective

Economic Performance in Ontario CMAs: A National Comparative Perspective is a new study that shows how urban centres in southwestern Ontario, including London and Windsor, fell from being amongst the most prosperous cities nationwide to the some of the least prosperous from 2000 to 2015, the latest year of available census data.

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