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	Fraser Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Fraser Institute is a nonprofit group established in 1974 under federal charter with offices in Vancouver (headquarters) and Toronto.
		The institute, which has been noted for its conservative views, operates as a research and educational organization that supports free enterprise.
		The institute attempts to influence public policy through publication of studies by staff economists and academics; the publication of a monthly magazine, Fraser Forum, and a bi-monthly newsletter, Canadian Student Review; placement of materials in schools, universities and churches; media interviews; and speeches and symposia.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0003043 (140 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Fraser Institute
		The institute – which came to be known as a "right-wing think tank" – didn't attract much attention nationally in the early years, mainly because the prevailing notion in most of the western world was that government had a large role to play in improving the social and economic conditions of citizens.
		In Canada, the Fraser Institute began to attract a lot of attention in the second half of the 1980s, as the debate about free trade with the United States heated up – partially because of the reports it was releasing and partially because of the people who were attracted to the organization.
		The Fraser Institute has called for changes such as a flatter tax system, private involvement in health care, and allowing parents more choice in their children's education (vouchers that can be used to help pay the cost of a private school education).
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/fraserinstitute (888 words)

	ATA NEWS - Volume 34, Number 19 - More "Drive-by Rankings" from the Fraser Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Fraser Institute's second annual report on school rankings in Alberta was released May 5.
		The Fraser Institute's rankings are an attempt to reduce complicated questions to simple numbers and to foster competition in the mistaken view that this "market method" will lead to school improvement.
		It is also instructive to note that the Fraser Institute uses average test scores, rather than the more meaningful figure of the percentage of students who meet provincial standards.
	www.teachers.ab.ca /archive/newsletter/teachers.ab.ca/fraser.html (1217 words)

	Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
		The Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queen's University is Canada's premier university-based centre for research on all aspects of federalism and intergovernmental relations, both in Canada and in countries around the world.
		The Institute's team is located in and works closely with the School of Policy Studies, as well as a number of Faculty Associates in other departments at Queen's University.
		The Institute is interdisciplinary in orientation, drawing on the latest research in political science, economics, philosophy, law, and sociology.
	www.iigr.ca (354 words)

	SaskPower Support of Fraser Institute Unacceptable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Vancouver-based Fraser Institute is dedicated to "...changing the nature of public discourse about the role of government in society." The Institute envisions a much reduced role for government and, indeed, for democracy.
		To implement this philosophy, the Fraser Institute argues for the privatization of health care, the reduction or elimination of the minimum wage, and the reduction of the poverty line from approx.
		Of special interest to farm families is the fact that Fraser Institute publications argue for the elimination of agricultural marketing boards and call for the elimination or privatization of the Canadian Wheat Board.
	www.nfu.ca /spfraser.htm (311 words)

	thetyee.ca U.S.-style Media Monitor Comes North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fraser Institute director Michael Walker says his organization’s research program is insulated from its sources of funding.
		I nominate the Fraser Institute and its staff, Gordon Campbell and the BC liberal caucus, Rod Love, as well as Canwest along with large number of their editorial writers and columnists...watch out, Canadian Idol...
		The Fraser Institute has the collective ear of the press, the government, and business (with apologies at using the socialist word "collective") It is essentially a 'yesman' for corporate monopoly.
	www.thetyee.ca /MediaCheck/current/FraserInstituteSpinCycle.htm (6225 words)

	Frank Discussion: 2004 Fraser Inst. Report on Cannabis
		But the Fraser Institute says it is not in favour of legalizing marijuana even though the report it released Wednesday calls for just such a thing.
		It says while the Institute is pleased to publish the report, it does not take positions on such issues and the views of the report's author, Steve Easton, are his own.
		The Fraser Institute report compares the problem to the failure of alcohol prohibition in the U.S. during the 1920s.
	frankdiscussion.netfirms.com /fraserreport_mj.html (5379 words)

	NewsWatch Canada
		Leading sources in Fraser Institute stories were professionals/academics, followed by politicians, government officials and left-wing sources such as the Canadian Auto Workers, Leading sources in CCPA stories were advocacy groups/activists, journalists, government sources and right-wing groups such as the B.C. Business Council.
		In summary, CCPA and Fraser Institute both received about the same percentage of supportive sources (sources cited in stories that supported the position of the think tank); they both received about the same level of critical source referencing; and they were not subjected to criticism in about the same percentage of stories.
		It was a curious study because the actual statistics contained in the study (as opposed to the interpretation in Fraser Institute news releases and interviews) directly contradicted the claim that the media were biased against the Liberals.
	www.sfu.ca /cmns/research/newswatch/monitor/issue1.html (2766 words)

	monograph24
		Of course, the Fraser Institute concluded the top 16 schools in the province are private schools.
		The Fraser Institute Report was ridiculed by one researcher as the "Plan 9 From Outer Space of educational research," in reference to the Ed Wood film widely regarded as the worst motion picture ever made.
		The first "report card" prepared by the Fraser Institute simply demonstrates it will blatantly manipulate data and the media to try to convince the public that neo-conservative ideology is correct.
	www.osstf.on.ca /www/services/esc/monographs/monograph24.html (913 words)

	Fraser Institute for Research on the Scottish Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Changes at the top of the Fraser of Allander Institute for Research on the Scottish Economy aim to broaden its expertise for new research and policy initiatives.
		The Fraser of Allander Institute for Research on the Scottish Economy was established in 1975 and is a unit within the Department of Economics at the University of Strathclyde.
		Brian has been Director of the Fraser Institute for the past decade, before which he was Editor of the Institute's Quarterly Economic Commentary and Research Director.
	www.fraser.strath.ac.uk /press/nov99.htm (695 words)

	CBC British Columbia - Klein leads tribute to Fraser Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		CALGARY– The Vancouver-based Fraser Institute, one of the country's best-known think tanks, threw itself a 30th birthday party Tuesday night, with a number of the country's best-known conservatives paying tribute.
		Michael Walker, who founded the Fraser Institute in Vancouver and is its executive director, says now that their ideals of no-debt and low taxes are considered mainstream, they will begin pushing free-market reforms in health care and education.
		The Fraser Institute does have many critics, from politicians to academics, who say it's more of a pro-business lobby than a think tank.
	vancouver.cbc.ca /regional/servlet/View?filename=bc_fraser20041013 (372 words)

	ATA NEWS - Volume 34, Number 19 - Editorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		You may also have heard of the Institute last July when Premier Klein was presented, for the third year in a row, with the Fraser Institute's Fiscal Performance Award.
		According to the Institute's annual report, the majority of its revenues are derived from the donations of its members: "[it] avoids government funding.
		The Fraser Institute's quarterly publication, Canadian Student Review, and several seminars on public policy issues are sponsored by the Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation, which has two main purposes, one of which is to "promote the principles of a free market economy and its relationship to individual liberty."
	www.teachers.ab.ca /archive/newsletter/teachers.ab.ca/edit8.html (644 words)

	Saskatchewan blasts biased Fraser Institute study
		Regina - Saskatchewan is disputing hospital waiting-list figures compiled by the Fraser Institute, the right-wing, corporate-funded "research" outfit by Michael Walker in Vancouver.
		He says the actual waiting time for most surgeries is less than half of what is cited in the Fraser Institute study.
		Heath Minister John Nilson says the goal of the Fraser Institute is to discredit Medicare and promote for-profit health care.
	www.nupge.ca /news_2002/news_sep02/n20se02a.htm (222 words)

	e.Peak (31/5/2004) features: . . . and the think-tanks came rolling in
		This is the Vancouver office of the Fraser Institute, a think-tank that has successfully used Canada's daily newspapers to shift political thought toward market-based solutions since its humble beginnings in the Trudeau era.
		According to the Fraser Institute, their purpose is the "redirection of public attention to the role of competitive markets in providing for the well-being of Canadians." The purpose of the Fraser Institute, according to the liberal philosopher John Ralston Saul, is "not thought or inquiry, but rhetoric and propaganda.
		As for the Fraser Institute, its relationship with Canadian daily newspapers is good whether they're on side or not, said Walters.
	www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/2004-2/issue5/fe-thinktanks.html (2012 words)

	The Frazier Institute
		The Frazier Institute is a radical right-wing alternative to the Fraser Institute, Canada's purportedly free-market think-tank.
		The Frazier Institute was founded by a group of uncompromising free-market analysts who became dissatisfied with the wishy-washy moderation and the compromises of fundamental free-market principles engaged in by think-tanks such as the Fraser Institute in their search for popularity and their kow-towing to the liberal media.
		The Frazier Institute is committed to pursuing pure free-market solutions by taking the fundamental principles of capitalism, competition, individualism and freedom to their absolute limits, without concern for popularity, media acceptance, or the petty fears and emotions of the general public.
	frazierinstitute.tripod.com (184 words)

	Educators united in challenging Fraser Institute Rankings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although the Fraser Institute states that this is only one part of the picture, it presents the information as if it were a valid stand-alone measure to compare the relative performance of schools.
		The Fraser Institute statistic is a theoretical measure of exam performance.
		However, the Fraser Institute gives a rating of 10 out of 10 if the school mark and the exam results are the same and less out of 10 if they are substantially different, regardless of which is greater.
	www.bctf.bc.ca /NewsReleases/archive/2001/2001-03-05.html (1053 words)

	Your Media: Who funds the Fraser Institute?
		The Institute's annual report provides a breakdown by category of donor: 52 per cent from foundations, 38 per cent from organizations and the remainder from individuals.
		The Ottawa Citizen editorialized that the Fraser Institute is a dissenting hero standing up to the socialist establishment.
		Another interpretation is that the Fraser is a small cog in a global wheel of reaction designed to roll back the democratic gains of the 20th century.
	www.yourmedia.ca /library_articles/041028_gutstein_fraser.html (1019 words)

	Fraser Institute - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Fraser Institute is a conservative think tank based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
		"On the strength of his reputation with the IEA, he was invited in 1975 to become co-director of the Fraser Institute in Vancouver, founded by the Canadian businessman Pat Boyle in 1974.
		Fisher let the young director of the Fraser Institute, Dr Michael Walker, get on with the intellectual output of the Institute (just as he had given free reign to Seldon and Harris at the IEA) while he himself concentrated on the fund-raising side," Cockett wrote.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Fraser_Institute (436 words)

	Globeinvestor.com: The Fraser Institute/Media Release: Canadians Celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 26th
		The Institute has been researching the comprehensive tax burden for the average family in Canada, and each of the provinces, since 1977.
		While The Fraser Institute's methodology has not changed, the switch from the SCF to the SLID has led to changes in historical Tax Freedom Days.
		Established in 1974, The Fraser Institute is an independent public policy organization with offices in Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto.
	www.globeinvestor.com /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CCNM/20050624/0624001n (1356 words)

	ReformWatch News: Fraser Institute grad in Manning's office
		Getting an intergenerational scrap going is a key part of the Fraser Institute'sstrategy, perhaps in an effort to distract young people from the anti-youth, elitist policies it advocates such as ending government support for higher education and eliminating the minimum wage.
		A student who attended Levant's Fraser Institute seminar in Regina last year found he spoke in the one second sound-bites of the right, describing baby boomers as Entitlemaniacs, demanding all you can eat health care, and viewing the government as the toothfairy.
		He is arguing for a very old-fashioned kind of entitlement, that the rich are entitled to all of their wealth despite the enormous social and physical investments made by governments to produce this wealth in any modern society.
	www.web.net /~refwatch/news/97127.htm (543 words)

	Fraser Institute for Research on the Scottish Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Fraser of Allander Institute is a research unit of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
		The Institute carries out research on the Scottish economy, including the analysis of short term movements in economic activity.
		The Institute publishes a Quarterly Economic Commentary containing forecasts and analysis of the Scottish economy.
	www.fraser.strath.ac.uk (336 words)

	Libertarians: Ready to Party Again?
		In October, the Fraser Institute published Martin Collacott’s "Canada’s Immigration Policy: The Need for Major Reform", Public Policy Sources, Number 64.
		My first thought was that the Fraser Institute was going to add a necessary free market perspective to the immigration issue as they have done with recent commentaries on other social issues such as gun control, gambling, education and drug usage.
		I believe that this immigration issue is a similar battle for the soul of the Fraser Institute.
	www.wclf.org /articles/PGonMC.html (877 words)

	Fraser Institute - Information Centre - Environment
		The Fraser Institute seeks to ensure that Canadian environment and safety policy is based on sound science; is prioritized for effectiveness and efficiency; is flexible and cooperative; harnesses the role of markets and incentives; and makes best use of the local knowledge of stakeholders.
		One policy area that The Fraser Institute pays close attention to is that of climate change.
		The Fraser Institute recently hosted Andrei Illarionov, senior economic advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, to discuss whether Russia is likely to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
	www.fraserinstitute.ca /environment/index.asp?snav=en (657 words)

	CBC Saskatchewan - Sask. waiting list decline 'dramatic': Fraser Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Fraser Institute said the shortest waits from GP to treatment were in Ontario, where the average was 16.3 weeks.
		Fraser Institute spokesperson Nadeem Esmail said Canada's small reduction in waiting times is no reason to celebrate.
		She said the waits in 2005 are still the second-longest Canadians have ever experienced and exist despite record levels of health spending.
	sask.cbc.ca /regional/servlet/View?filename=hospital-waiting051018 (460 words)

	The Fraser Institute loves bad health care news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michael Walker of the Fraser Institute has published yet another study knocking public medicare and praising corporate health care as an alternative.
		The survey is based on waiting times for the 12 specialties: plastic surgery, gynaecology, opthalmology, otolarygology, general surgery, neuro surgery, orthopaedic surgery, cardiovascular surgery (elective), urology, internal medicine, radiation oncology and medical oncology.
		What Walker doesn't say is that this "bad news" for Canadians is really "good news" for the Fraser Institute, whose sole reason for existence is to flen the name of all things public and whitewash everything coporrate.
	www.nupge.ca /news_2002/news_sep02/n19se02a.htm (485 words)

	Libertyguide Job Bank > Fraser Institute > Paid Internships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Other intern positions may be available in 2004 and will be posted on the Fraser Institute's web site as they arise.
		The intern positions are offered at the Fraser Institute's offices, located in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto.
		The location of intern projects is fixed so that the intern can work under the guidance of a specific policy analyst.
	www.theihs.org /libertyguide/jobbank/show_viewrecord.php?id=368&print=1 (266 words)

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