We examine retired Canadians' subjective survey reports of satisfaction with finances, and with life, relative to the period before retirement. Many more retired Canadians report enjoying life more than before retirement than the converse, and in 2002 three-quarters of retired Canadians reported...

About 6 percent of seniors in Canada have family incomes below the Low Income Measure (LIM), a definition of relative poverty that sets the line at 50 percent of the median household income adjusted for family size. The Canadian senior below-LIM rate has fallen sharply in the last 35 years and...

The differences in Canadian and US aggregate savings rates do not appear to be attributable to the Registered Retirement Savings Plan program in Canada.

Lavoie, Grenier and Coulombe (1987) use data for a number of NHL seasons up to 1983-84 and conclude that Francophone Canadian players outperformed Anglophone Canadian players, which they interpret as evidence of hiring discrimination. This paper replicates their calculations for the 1989-90...

Senator Kirby recommended that the federal government cover the "catastrophic" portion of drug costs incurred by drug plans that met certain minimum coverage requirements. Under the assumption that implementation of Kirby's proposal would result in every household not already in a qualifying...

The first 14 years of Maclean's magazine rankings of Canadian universities are analyzed in conjunction with data on admission averages of entering students and enrolment. There is weak evidence that universities in the Medical-Doctoral category that have improved their Maclean's ranking have...