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Vol. 17 No. 1 (2024)

Published: 2024-01-11

Research Papers

Assessing the Viability of Smaller Municipalities: The Alberta Model

Kimberly Jones, Mukesh Khanal, Kevin McQuillan
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Building Collaborative Governance in the Extractive Sector

Pablo Policzer
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Leaving the Big City: New Patterns of Migration in Canada

Kevin McQuillan
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Market Design for the 21st Century: Recommendations for Alberta’s Power Market

Blake Shaffer, Frank A. Wolak
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Federal Business Subsidies: Explosive Growth Since 2014

John Lester
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Briefing Papers

The High Cost of Raising Provincial Tax Revenues Has Gotten Even Higher

Bev Dahlby
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WATER UPDATE 2024

Hanan Ishaque, Joshua Bourassa, Guillaume Lhermie
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The Captive Insurance Opportunity in Alberta: Drivers of Success in Captive Domiciles

Erik Johnson, Anne Kleffner
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Policies Affecting the Efficiency of Beef Production in Alberta: A Supply Chain Analysis

Derek Brewin
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Disrupting Trajectories Leading to Domestic Violence

Lana Wells, Ken Fyie, Ron Kneebone, Stephanie Montesanti, Casey Boodt, Rebecca Davidson
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Navigating Climate Change: Alberta’s Carbon Program for Sustainable Agriculture

Hanan Ishaque, Joshua Bourassa, Guillaume Lhermie
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Productivity Growth in Canada: What is Going On?

Tim Sargent
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Sustainable Innovation in the Canadian Agrifood Sector: Past, Present & Future

Jared Carlberg
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Energy Transitions Roundtable Proceedings

G. Kent Fellows, Ahmed Elmeligy, Katharina Koch, Robert Mansell, Dylan Rama, Ivana Skendrovic
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Enhancing Canada’s Beef Exports and Competitiveness in the Global Market

Pascal Ghazalian
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Exploring a Coal-to-Nuclear Transition: Repurposing of Legacy Coal Assets to Locate Small Modular Reactors in Alberta

Amanda Cha, Rudiger Tscherning
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Exploring Typologies of Domestic Violence Perpetrators: Insights into Male Patterns and Behaviours

Lana Wells, Ken Fyie, Ronald Kneebone, Casey Boodt, Kim Ruse, Stephanie Montesanti, Rebecca Davidson
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Measure What Matters: Toward Multi-Sectoral Action to Improve Child and Youth Health and Well-being

Victoria Wright, Jennifer Zwicker, Brent Hagel, Christiane Roth, Heather Boynton, Gina Dimitropoulos, Deineia Exner-Cortens, Shelly Russell-Mayhew, Kelly Dean Schwartz, Suzanne Tough, Janet Aucoin
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Communiqués

Further Thoughts on the Capital Gains Tax

Melville McMillan
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Policy Trends

Fiscal and Economic Policy Trends: Productivity and Labour Incomes

Bev Dahlby
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Energy and Environmental Policy Trends: Rethinking EV Charging

Aviv Fried, Blake Shaffer, Sara Hastings-Simon
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Energy and Environmental Policy Trends: A Mid-Transition for Alberta’s Electricity?

Kristina Pearson, Sara Hastings-Simon
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Social Policy Trends: The Average Age of Mothers at First Birth

Ronald Kneebone, Margarita Wilkins
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Urban Policy Trends: Local Regulations and the Price of Housing

Ronald Kneebone
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Health Policy Trends: Regulations and Hospital Capacity

Travis Carpenter
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Social Policy Trends: There is More to Renting Than Paying Rent

Ronald Kneebone, Margarita Wilkins
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Social Policy Trends: Where have the hospital beds gone?

Ronald Kneebone, Margarita Wilkins
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Infrastructure Policy Trends: Digital Inequity: Bridging The Gap

Katharina Koch, Mohammad Raihan, Sujoy Subroto, Nashit Chowdhury, Erin Ruttan, Tanvir Turin Chowdhury
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Social Policy Trends: Homeless Shelter Use in Toronto

Robert Falconer, Ronald Kneebone, Margarita Wilkins
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Urban Policy Trends: Water Availability and Growth in the Calgary Metropolitan Region

David Barrett, Robert Falconer
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Social Policy Trends: An Explosion in the Use of Food Banks in Toronto

Ronald Kneebone, Margarita Wilkins
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