On an age-adjusted basis, Canada – not the United States – spends more on health care than any other nation. Yet long waiting lists have become the defining characteristic of the Canadian health care system.
International surveys show that Canadians wait longer than patients almost anywhere else in the developed world:
Waiting
The Kyoto protocol, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 5 percent between 2008 and 2012, would have little effect on climate change unless far more drastic measures are taken, according to Klaus Hasselmann and colleagues.
Emissions reductions of as much as 50 percent a goal that
Early last year the Department of Communications (DoC) invited the Information Communications Technology (ICT) industry to a colloquium, asking the firms what they wanted from a new regulatory framework. This was part of a wider process intended to reconcile the disparate South African laws that are disabling the growth of
Each year, approximately one-fifth of all American teachers leave the career of education entirely or leave urban for suburban schools, say researchers. This leaves schools with higher concentrations of disadvantaged and low achieving students with fewer experienced teachers (who are, on average, more effective at raising student performance than
The world remains on a path toward greater liberty, according to the 2004 Index of Economic Freedom released today. The Index measures economic freedom in 10 categories, ranging from fiscal burdens and government regulation to monetary and trade policy.
In this 10th anniversary edition of the Index, published each
Complexity has plagued the U.S. federal income tax since its beginning in 1913. As early as 1928, the U.S. Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) issued a report containing many familiar complaints. However, it concluded that there was a severe limit
to tax simplification, because the complexity of
