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207: Railroad Blues: How to Get Canada's Rail Policy Back on Track

Benjamin Dachis

206: Tackling Traffic: The Economic Cost of Congestion in Metro Vancouver

Benjamin Dachis

205: The Taxation of Single-Employer Target Benefit Plans – Where We Are and Where We Ought To Be

Jana Steele, Barry Gros, Karen Hall and Ian McSweeney

204: Doctors without Hospitals: What to do about Specialists Who Can’t Find Work

Ake Blomqvist, Colin Busby, Will Falk and Aaron Jacobs

203: Evaluating Student Performance in Pathways to Education

Robert Brown, Adam Lavecchi and Philip Oreopoulos

202: The Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement: What it Means for Canada

Dan Ciuriak

201: Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Prince Edward Island’s $13 Billion Healthcare Squeeze

William Robson, Colin Busby and Aaron Jacobs

200: Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Are Demographics a Fiscal Iceberg for Newfoundland and Labrador?

William Robson, Colin Busby and Aaron Jacobs

199: Delivering Healthcare to an Aging Population: Nova Scotia’s Fiscal Glacier

William Robson, Colin Busby and Aaron Jacobs

198: Managing the Costs of Healthcare for an Aging Population: The Fiscal Impact of New Brunswick’s Demographic Glacier

William Robson, Colin Busby and Aaron Jacobs

197: Managing the Costs of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Good—and Bad—News About Saskatchewan’s Fiscal Glacier

William Robson, Colin Busby and Aaron Jacobs

196: Managing the Costs of Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Alberta Can Confront its Fiscal Glacier

William Robson, Colin Busby and Aaron Jacobs

195: Healthcare and an Aging Population: Managing Slow-Growing Revenues and Rising Health Spending in British Columbia

William Robson, Colin Busby and Aaron Jacobs

194: An Aging Population Fiscal Challenge: Planning for Healthcare Costs in Quebec

William Robson, Colin Busby and Aaron Jacobs

193: Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Manitoba Can Confront Its Healthcare Glacier

William Robson, Colin Busby and Aaron Jacobs

192: Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Ontario’s Troubling Collision Course

William Robson, Colin Busby and Aaron Jacobs

191: Measuring Innovation in Canada: The Tale Told by Patent Applications

Benjamin Dachis, Robbie Brydon and Nicholas Chesterley

190: A Speedier and More Efficient Payments System for Canada

Mati Dubrovinsky

189: Who Loses Most? The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Retirement Incomes

Finn Poschmann and Alexandre Laurin

188: Good Governance of Monetary Policy in Canada: Lessons from the C.D. Howe Institute’s Shadow Council

Pierre Siklos and Matthias Neuenkirch

187: The 2014 C.D. Howe Institute Business Tax Burden Ranking

Benjamin Dachis, Adam Found and Peter Tomlinson

186: Target Benefit Plans: Improving Access for Federally Regulated Employees

Randy Bauslaugh

185: Bending Canada's Healthcare Cost Curve: Watch Not What Governments Say, But What They Do

William Robson

184: Let the Market Decide: The Case Against Mandatory Pick-and-Pay

Lawson Hunter, Edward Iacobucci and Michael Trebilcock

183: The Overlooked Option for Boosting Retirement Savings: Higher Limits for RRSPs

Alexandre Laurin

182: Rethinking Ontario’s Electricity System with Consumers in Mind

Michael Wyman

181: It's Alive! Corporate Cash and Business Investment

Finn Poschmann

180: Money Still Matters: How the Bank of Canada Might Better Monitor Inflation

Mati Dubrovinsky

179: Capital Needed: Canada Needs More Robust Business Investment

Benjamin Dachis, William Robson and Nicholas Chesterley

178: The Public Purse versus Private Wallets: Comparing Provincial Approaches to Investing in Economic Growth

Philip Cross

177: What Policies Work? Addressing the Concerns Raised by Canada’s PISA Results

John Richards

176: Warning Signs for Canadian Educators: The Bad News in Canada’s PISA Results

John Richards

175: Outliving Our Savings: Registered Retirement Income Funds Rules Need a Big Update

William Robson and Alex Laurin

174: Don’t Forget the Kids: How Immigrant Policy Can Help Immigrants’ Children

Colin Busby and Miles Corak

173: The Impact of Diplomatic Representation Abroad on Canada’s Exports

Dan Ciuriak

172: Helping Ontarians Save for Retirement: How the Province Could Adapt the Canada Supplementary Pension Plan

Keith Ambachtsheer

171: Registering in Harmony: The Case for Pan-Canadian Corporate Registration

Daniel Schwanen

170: Tradable Services: Canada’s Overlooked Success Story

Daniel Schwanen

169: Who Else Benefits from CETA? Some Implications of Most-Favoured Nation Treatment

Lawrence Herman

168: Accountability and Access to Medical Care: Lessons from the Use of Capitation Payments in Ontario

Ake Blomqvist, Boris Kralj and Jasmin Kantarevic

167: Equipping Canadian Workers: Business Investment Loses a Step against Competitors Abroad

Benjamin Dachis and William Robson

166: What Gets Measured Gets Managed: The Economic Burden of Business Property Taxes

Benjamin Dachis, Adam Found and Peter Tomlinson

165: Absent With Leave: The Implications of Demographic Change for Worker Absenteeism

Finn Poschmann and Omar Chatur

164: Identifying Alberta's Best Schools

David Johnson

163: Uneasy Birth: What Canadians Should Expect from a Canada-EU Trade Deal

Daniel Schwanen

162: How Ottawa Can Deliver a Reformed Canada Post

Benjamin Dachis

161: The Main Challenge of Our Times: A Population Growing Younger

Marcel Boyer and Sebastien Boyer

160: Treading Water: The Impact of High METRs on Working Families in Canada

Alex Laurin and Finn Poschmann

159: The 8 Percent Solution: A Sensible Tax Compromise for Albertans

Colin Busby and Alex Laurin

158: The Seductive Myth of Canada’s “Overvalued” Dollar

Christopher Ragan