Who was Barbara Mitchell?

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The Report Card on Ontario's Elementary Schools: 2003 Edition collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, easily accessible public document.

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The Report Card on British Columbia's Elementary Schools: 2003 Edition collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, accessible document so that anyone can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools. The Report Card assists parents choose a school for their children and encourages and assists all those seeking to improve their schools.

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This speech was presented a Fraser Institute Round Table Luncheon on June 11, 2003.

As The Economist's editor in chief for the past decade, Bill Emmott has had a prime vantage point from which to observe the pageant of world events. In his new book 20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-first Century, he combines journalistic insights with historical analysis to show how the challenges of the last hundred years can shed light on those to come in the next hundred.

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This paper focuses on the ability of the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations in Canada's Parliament to hold ministers accountable.

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This annual Report Card is the only one of its kind to analyze relevant, publicly-available data to rate and rank 263 of Alberta's public, separate, private, and francophone high schools. The Report Card provides an objective benchmark against which schools can improve.

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The Fraser Institute's fifth study examining Canadian public liabilities reveals that the net direct debt of all three levels of government in Canada fell from $851 billion to $797 billion between 1996/97 and 2000/01. This is a small drop compared to the growth in debt over the last decade: it was only $533 billion in 1990/91.

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In this study, we examine four key components of prosperity in Ontario. First, we evaluate Ontario's economic performance. Second, we present research on the relationship between the size of government in a jurisdiction and its economic performance. Third, we evaluate tax policy. Fourth, we evaluate Ontario's performance in balancing its books and managing its debts.

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