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percent — almost double the rate of growth in the rest of Canada. Wages, previously roughly at par with the rest of the …, public sector salaries are a good place to start. The authors make their case using detailed Statistics Canada data, throwing …
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Health-care reform is perennially popular in Alberta, but reality doesn’t match the rhetoric. Government has invested more than $700 million in Primary Care Networks — with little beyond anecdotal evidence of the value achieved with this investment. As the province redirects primary care to...
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If there’s one thing Canadians agree on, it’s that Canada’s wireless industry can and should be more competitive. The … the state of competition in wireless services in Canada, until now. Those in favour of policies that will promote and … sustain entry point to Canada’s high average revenue per user and low wireless penetration rate (mobile connections per capita …
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In the 11 years since the Romanow Commission warned that the income of physicians was threatening to become a significant driver of Canadian health-care costs, doctors in this country proceeded to chalk up some of their most rapid gains in earnings since the implementation of medicare. Since...
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a great number of other countries offer those things, too, at roughly the same level. Meanwhile, Canada suffers in the … geographic vastness that only raise the cost of doing business here. Canada has been able to overcome its disadvantages in recent … governments lately to raise taxes on business has been rapidly erasing that slight advantage. Dangerously, Canada is beginning to …
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, public intoxication is in many places still a criminal offence, including in Canada. But what happens when, instead of …
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If Canada’s interest in the North American Free Trade Agreement was in deepening regional trade integration between our …, Canada’s NAFTA trade had peaked, and it has since only declined as a share of its trade with the rest of the world: from 79 … Canada-U.S. border (think: country-of-origin labelling and “Buy America” rules). That has left Canada looking to strike more …
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skin is exposed to sunlight, however during the winter months in Canada the sun is too low in the sky for this to occur. A … deficient by Health Canada guidelines. Increasing vitamin D intake should be considered a public health priority. Vitamin D …, cognitive decline, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and arthritis. There is, of course, no way to change Canada …
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The price of oil just keeps collapsing — and the fate of Alberta’s revenues is buckling with it. Going into March 2015, it seemed as if prices might have finally found a bottom, somewhere between US$48 and US$52. By the second week of March, they began falling again, to the low forties....
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