School Grades: Identifying Alberta’s Best Schools, an Update
Supporting Employees who Deploy: The Case for Financial Assistance to Employers of Military Reservists
Stress Test: Demographic Pressures and Policy Options in Atlantic Canada
Dropouts are the system’s Achilles heel: Globe and Mail Comment
October 26, 2009 – Celebrating Canada’s performance on international tests overlooks the high dropout rates among francophone men in Quebec and aboriginals, according to John Richards, Roger Phillips Scholar in Social Policy at the C.D. Howe Institute. Writing on the Globe and Mail comment page, Professor Richards assesses the scope of the problem and recommends potential soutions.
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Dropouts: The Achilles’ Heel of Canada’s High-School System
Improving Canada’s Immigration Policy
Back to Basics: Restoring Equity and Efficiency in the EI Program
Ontario’s Best Public Schools, 2005/06-2007/08: An Update to Signposts of Success (2005)
EI System needs stable funding: think tank
EI System needs stable funding: think tank
In EI System needs stable funding: think tank, (Financial Post, June 17th 2009), Paul Vieira reports that as political leaders in Ottawa squabble to the edge of an election over Employment Insurance, a C.D. Howe Institute study highlights two critical issues being missed in the discourse: stable funding and insulation from political interference.
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Getting Off the Rollercoaster: A Stable Funding Framework for the EI Program
Extra Earning Power: The Financial Returns to University Education in Canada
Regional Equity in EI Access Long Overdue, according to C.D. Howe Institute Policy Analyst, Colin Busby
Regional Equity in EI Access Long Overdue, according to C.D. Howe Institute Policy Analyst, Colin Busby
In Stop the Damage from Regionally Biased EI, (The Calgary Herald, March 23rd 2009), C.D. Howe Institute Policy Analyst, Colin Busby, finds that mounting job losses in previously booming areas, Ontario and Alberta, will cause many of the unemployed to fall into a less forgiving insurance net than those in Quebec and eastward. Busby maintains that policymakers ought to pursue an EI system that better supports economic stability, despite the inevitable expense, and recommends that Ottawa introduce uniform EI entrance requirements.
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