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149: Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: The Fiscal Challenge Quebec Has Yet to Face

Colin Busby and William Robson

148: Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Does the Demographic Glacier Portend a Fiscal Ice-Age in Ontario?

Colin Busby and William Robson

147: Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Manitoba’s Looming Funding Gap

Colin Busby and William Robson

146: Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Some Good News and Some Bad News for Saskatchewan

Colin Busby and William Robson

145: Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Alberta Can Confront its Coming Fiscal Challenge

Colin Busby and William Robson

144: Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: British Columbia Confronts its Glacier

Colin Busby and William Robson

143: Not Dead Yet: The Changing Role of Cash on Corporate Balance Sheets

Finn Poschmann

142: Speed Dating or Serious Courtship? Canada and Foreign State-Owned Enterprises

Daniel Schwanen

141: Are Middle Schools Good for Student Academic Achievement? Evidence from Ontario

David Johnson

140: Federal Employee Pension Reforms: First Steps - on a Much Longer Journey

William Robson and Alexandre Laurin

139: Tuer la poule aux œufs d'or: Les impacts des hausses d'impôt proposées au Québec/Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs: Impact of proposed tax increases in Quebec

Alexandre Laurin

138: Can Venture Capital Foster Innovation in Canada? Yes, but Certain Types of Venture Capital Are Better Than Others

Tariq Fancy

137: From Living Well to Working Well: Raising Canada's Performance in Non-residential Investment

Benjamin Dachis and William Robson

136: Finding Common Cause: The Renewed Quest for a National Securities Regulator

Jeremy Fraiberg

135: Ontario's Tax on the Rich: Grasping at Straw Men

Alexandre Laurin

134: Ontario's Best Public Schools: 2009-2011

David Johnson and Robbie Brydon

133: Money Still Talks - Is Anyone Listening?

David Laidler

132: The Hole in Ontario's Budget: WSIB's Unfunded Liability

Colin Busby and Finn Poschmann

131: What to do About Seniors' Benefits in Canada: the Case for letting Recipients Take Richer Payments Later

William Robson

129: Newfoundland's Electricity Options: Making the Right Choice Requires and Efficient Pricing Regime

James Feehan

128: Saving Pooled Registered Pension Plans: It's Up To the Provinces

Keith Ambachtsheer and Keith Waitzer

127: Ottawa's Pension Gap: The Growing and Under-reported Cost of Federal Employee Pensions

Alexandre Laurin and William Robson

126: The Retooling Challenge: Canada's Struggle to Close the Capital Investment Gap

Colin Busby and William Robson

125: The Roads Not Taken: Why the Bank of Canada Stayed With Inflation Targeting

Christopher Ragan

124: Core, What is it Good For? Why the Bank of Canada Should Focus on Headline Inflation

Philippe Bergevin and Colin Busby

123: Better Braking for ABS: Reform Proposals for the Asset-Backed Securities Market

David Allan and Philippe Bergevin

122: Congestive Traffic Failure: The Case for High-Occupancy and Express Toll Lanes in Canadian Cities

Benjamin Dachis

121: Western METRics: Marginal Effective Tax Rates in the Western Provinces

Alexandre Laurin and Finn Poschmann

120: Plugging into Savings: A New Incentive-Based Market Can Address Ontario’s Power-Surplus Problem

Benjamin Dachis and Donald Dewees

119: The Time is Still Right for BC’s HST

Finn Poschmann and Alexandre Laurin

118: Pulling the Plug on Monopoly Power: Reform for the Canadian Wheat Board

Richard Pedde and Al Loyns

117: Zapped: The High Cost of Ontario's Renewable Electricity Subsidies

Benjamin Dachis and Jan Carr

116: Strengthening Bank Regulation: OSFI's Contingent Capital Plan

John Chant

115: What Has Happened to Quebecers’ Marginal Effective Tax Rates?

Alexandre Laurin and Finn Poschmann

114: What's My METR? Marginal Effective Tax Rates Are Down - But Not for Everyone: The Ontario Case

Alexandre Laurin and Finn Poschmann

113: The Fragile Fiscal Pulse of Canada's Industrial Heartland: Ontario 2011 Budget

Colin Busby

112: When Striking an Awkward Balance Means Striking Out: Budget 2011

Alexandre Laurin, Finn Poschmann and William Robson

111: Fixing Canada’s CPI: A Simple and Sensible Policy Change for Minister Flaherty

Christopher Ragan

110: Lifting the Veil: Regulation and Shadow Banking

Christian Calmès and Raymond Theoret

109: School Dropouts: Who Are They and What Can Be Done?

John Richards

108: The Public-Sector Pension Bubble: Time to Confront the Unmeasured Cost of Ottawa's Pensions

Alexandre Laurin and William Robson

107: Disarmed and Disadvantaged: Canada’s Workers Need More Physical Capital to Confront the Productivity Challenge

Colin Busby and William Robson

106: The Glacier Grinds Closer: How Demographics Will Change Canada’s Fiscal Landscape

William Robson

105: Not Here? Housing Market Policy and the Risk of a Housing Bust

James (Jim) MacGee

104: The Payoff: Returns to University, College and Trades Education in Canada, 1980 to 2005

Daniel Boothby and Torben Drewes

103: Unbalanced Books: How to Improve Toronto’s Fiscal Accountability

Colin Busby, Benjamin Dachis and William Robson

102: Greater Transparency Needed

Angelo Melino and Michael Parkin

101: The Loonie’s Flirtation with Parity: Prospects and Policy Implications

Philippe Bergevin and Colin Busby

100: British Columbia’s Best Schools: Where Teachers Make the Difference

David Johnson

99: Manitoba’s Demographic Challenge: Why Improving Aboriginal Education Outcomes Is Vital for Economic Prosperity

Colin Busby