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Education is a high yield investment
In these days of bloated stock prices and low bond yields, it can be tough to find a good investment. Speculating on the wild ups…
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Preventing future Gold Rivers requires thinking outside the box
When the workers at the ill-fated Gold River pulp mill took their severance packages last week, it marked closure on a frustrating struggle to save…
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Paid in full
Who pays for university education in BC? Who pays for BC’s universities? The usual answer is the taxpayer since tuition fees amount to only one…
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What’s wrong with traditional schools?
For some, things just seemed better in previous times. Teachers stood in front of the class and taught. Students sat in rows and were polite…
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Methane Emissions from Fracking: Clean LNG’s Dirty Secret
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Arrêter de payer pour la F1
On apprenait récemment que les trois paliers de gouvernement allaient investir 98,5 millions de dollars afin d’assurer la tenue du Grand Prix de Montréal entre…
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Pour Ramani, Kadiatou, Margarita, Dina et Nadège
Qu’elles s’appellent Ramani, Kadiatou, Margarita, Dina ou Nadège, qu’elles viennent de l’Inde, de la Guinée, du Salvador, du Maroc ou d’Haïti, qu’elles habitent au Québec…
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The Couillard Government: A Mid-Term Review | Part I: The Mediocre Failure
After two years of Liberal rule in Quebec under Premier Philippe Couillard, it’s time for a mid-term review. Let’s look at empirical data to see…
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Une grande innovation, les GMF ?
Dans un roman intitulé La Citadelle, l’écrivain britannique A.J. Cronin raconte le parcours sinueux d’un jeune médecin qui, après avoir expérimenté plusieurs façons de pratiquer…
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The Couillard Government: A Mid-Term Review | Part II: What Was Left Behind
In the first post of this two-part series, I looked into traditional indicators, those that the government uses to assess its own policies: GDP growth,…
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Subventions à la voiture électrique : bonne ou mauvaise politique ?
Récemment, l’Institut économique de Montréal (IEDM) publiait une note dans laquelle on concluait que la subvention gouvernementale pour financer la voiture électrique était une mauvaise…
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The Liberal Party of Quebec is already planning the next series of setbacks
In mid-September, the Liberal Party of Quebec —not to be confused with its federal counterpart— held its fourth Forum des idées (“Idea Forum”). Over the course of…
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