The index of environmental indicators for Canada, the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and South Korea shows that fears about increasing environmental degradation in these countries are unfounded. Environmental quality is getting better, not worse.
Real informed choice requires real information. This booklet explains the facts behind GM and explores some of the issues surrounding the increasingly contentious issues. Armed with facts, we can identify and discuss the actual benefits as well as methods for managing or avoiding any potential risks.
The Report Card on British Columbia's Secondary Schools collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one easily accessible public document so that all interested parties--parents, school administrators, teachers, students, and taxpayers--can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools.
The Canadian government created the Natural Health Products Directorate (NHPD) in 1999 and provided it with some $7 million over three years to establish the new office and another $3 million to fund research on natural health products (NHPs).
On average, Canadian students outperform their U.S. counterparts, some Canadian provinces rank with the top countries in the world and recent work has shown that their strong performance owes much to relatively better achievement among students from less advantaged backgrounds. Features of these schools should therefore be of interest to Americans seeking to improve the quality of U.S. education.
As Canadian universities restructure, they need to focus on providing the highest quality of teaching and scholarship. This paper presents a new perspective for evaluating and differentially rewarding teachers.
In this report, we explicitly take a wide view, literally and figuratively, of the ramifications of legalized gambling. We investigate legalized gambling in four countries: Canada, the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
