The Report Card on Alberta’s High Schools 2018 rates 262 public, independent, separate and charter schools based on eight academic indicators generated from Grade 12 provincewide testing, grade-to-grade transition and graduation rates. The report card provides parents with information they can’t easily get anywhere else. In addition to five years of academic results, the report card also shows which schools are improving or falling behind.

Understanding the Regulatory Framework Governing Private and Public Pensions finds that private pensions are subject to far more rules and regulations than the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), are more complex in their make-up and face higher costs as a result.

Increasing the Minimum Wage in British Columbia: A Flawed Anti-Poverty Policy finds that despite misperceptions, more than 80 per cent of B.C.’s minimum-wage earners don’t actually live in low-income families. In fact, last year, the majority of minimum-wage earners in the province (55.7 per cent) were teenagers or young adults aged 15 to 24, almost all of whom (77.9 per cent) lived with their parents or other relatives.