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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

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

98: Ontario’s Green Energy “Fee”: The Trouble with Taxation through Regulation

Benjamin Alarie and Finn Poschmann

97: Room for Manoeuvre – Monetary Policy Over the Next Eighteen Months, and the Allure of Price-Level Targeting

Philippe Bergevin and David Laidler

96: School Grades: Identifying Alberta's Best Schools, an Update

David Johnson

95: The Piggy Bank Index: Matching Canadians’ Savings Rates to Their Retirement Dreams

David Dodge, Alexandre Laurin and Colin Busby

94: Taking Monetary Aggregates Seriously

Pierre Siklos

93: Down but Not Out: Reforming Social Assistance Rules that Punish the Poor for Saving

John Stapleton

92: How Soon? How Fast? Interest Rates and Other Monetary Policy Decisions in 2010

Michael Parkin

91: Saver's Choice: Comparing the Marginal Effective Tax Burdens on RRSPs and TFSAs

Alexandre Laurin and Finn Poschmann

90: A Clean Canada in a Dirty World: The Cost of Climate-Related Border Measures

Benjamin Dachis

89: Getting Talk Back on Target: The Exchange Rate and the Inflation Rate

David Laidler

88: Lending a Hand: How Federal Tax Policy Could Help Get More Cash to More Charities

A. Payne

87: Improving Canada's Immigration Policy

Charles Beach, Alan Green and Christopher Worswick

86: Unlocking More Wealth: How to Improve Federal Tax Policy for Canadian Charities

Malcolm Burrows

84: Back to Basics: Restoring Equity and Efficiency in the EI Program - EI Reform Part II

Colin Busby, Alexandre Laurin and David Gray

83: Equipping Ourselves in Tough times: Canada's Improved Business Investment Performance

Colin Busby and William Robson

82: A Bank for All Seasons: The Bank of Canada and the Regulatory Challenge

John Crow

81: Getting Off the Rollercoaster: A Stable Funding Framework for the EI Program - EI Reform Part I

Colin Busby and Alexandre Laurin