October 30, 2013 – The Supreme Court will rule on Thursday, October 31, in landmark Competition Act decisions, Pro-Sys v. Microsoft, Sun-Rype v. Archer Daniels Midland, and Infineon Technologies AG et autres c. Option Consommateurs et autres. The key question before the Court is, when…
Read moreIn Memoriam: Robert D. Brown
The Board of Directors and Staff of the C.D. Howe Institute mourn the passing of Robert D. Brown, who chaired the Institute’s Board from June 1997 through 1999, and subsequently was an Honorary Director.
He was an exemplary supporter of the Institute, deeply engaged in its policy work and…
Read moreOctober 23, 2013 – Specialist physicians should be paid by the hospitals where they carry out their procedures, rather than by provincial insurance plans as they are now, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Paying Hospital-Based Doctors: Fee for Whose Service?”…
Read moreOctober 17, 2013 — The C.D. Howe Institute’s Monetary Policy Council (MPC) today recommended that the Bank of Canada keep its target for the overnight rate, the very short-term interest rate the Bank targets for monetary policy purposes, at 1.00 percent at its next announcement on October…
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