Canada’s inadequate patent protections for pharmaceuticals hampering innovation and economic growth – Fraser Institute
Press Release VANCOUVER—Strengthening protections of intellectual property rights for pharmaceutical drugs would encourage innovation of new medicines, create high-skilled jobs and grow the economy, finds a new study released today…
Providing Basic Income Not Best Solution for Poverty – C.D. Howe Institute
Press Release “Even if we could afford GAI programs they aren’t a panacea,” commented Hicks. January 24, 2017 – Providing a comprehensive, one-size-fits-all guaranteed annual income (GAI) is not the…
2017 Home for Good: Building the Secure, Affordable Rental Stock We Need
Press Release Out of control housing costs for both ownership and rental aren’t just a Greater Vancouver phenomenon. Many B.C. and Canadian communities are experiencing a worsening, wickedly complex housing…
13th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: 2017
Press Release Jointly Published with the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies The 13th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: 2017 is published in collaboration with the Demographia group in Illinois, USA…
Employment situation, third quarter 2016, OECD
Press Release January 18, 2017 The OECD area employment rate – defined as the share of people of working-age in employment – increased for the fourteenth straight quarter, to 67.0%,…
Kellie Leitch and Indigenous rights
Press Release On July 26, 1989, then Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic unilaterally dissolved the assembly of the self-governing republic of Kosovo, which was an ethnic Albanian majority jurisdiction in Serbia.…
Stronger Canadian Economy Anticipated in 2017 – The Conference Board of Canada
Press Release Ottawa, January 17, 2017—Following an increase of just 1.3 per cent last year, Canada’s economic growth is expected to accelerate to 1.9 per cent in 2017, according to The Conference…
Fraser Institute: Ontario’s costly coal phase-out did not significantly reduce air pollution – a lesson for Ottawa
TORONTO—Shuttering Ontario’s coal-fired power plants had very little effect on reducing air pollution, helped fuel skyrocketing energy costs, and should serve as a lesson to policymakers across the country, finds…
C.D. Howe: Break Down Payment Silos for Better Healthcare
Press Release “Only the United States prevents us from occupying last place.” January 17, 2017 – Canada needs to break down payment silos for more effective healthcare, according to a…
Government workers in B.C. paid 7.4 per cent higher wages than comparable private-sector workers – Fraser Institute
Press Release January 12, 2016 VANCOUVER—Government workers in B.C. receive 7.4 per cent higher wages on average than comparable workers in the private sector, and enjoy much more generous non-wage…
