Paper
Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically and/or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed on the surface, followed by pressing and drying. Although paper was originally made in single sheets by hand, almost all is now made on large machines—some making reels 10 metres wide, running at 2,000 metres per minute and up to 600,000 tonnes a year. It is a versatile material with many uses, including printing, packaging, decorating, writing, cleaning, filter paper, wallpaper, book endpaper, conservation …
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Fraser Institute · 3 October 2024 English
Canadians are concerned about their income and their ability to purchase essential goods and services. Real (that is, inflation-adjusted) income determines their purchasing power, and directly affects their standard of …
independently, the views and conclusions expressed in this paper do not neces- sarily reflect those of the Board …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English
Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles …
978-0-2280-2293-0 (cloth) isbn 978-0-2280-2294-7 (paper) isbn 978-0-2280-2338-8 (epdf) isbn 978-0-2280-2339-5 … nationale du Québec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest free (100% post-consumer … isbn 9780228022930 (cloth) | isbn 9780228022947 (paper) | isbn 9780228023388 (epdf) | isbn 9780228023395 …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English
In It’s Nation Time, Jerry White argues that nationalism is an enduring and valuable social movement that functions to increase and uphold progressive globalisation.
nationale du Québec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest free (100% post-consumer … informed here by what Charles Tilly, in a 1995 paper titled “Citizenship, Identity, and Social History … conjured up by the label ‘nation-state,’”25 and in a paper of the same year titled “Time of States” that the …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 30 September 2024 English
Solar photovoltaic (PV) and onshore wind are now the cheapest options for new power generation, but enabling policies are still needed to speed up deployment, particularly in lower income countries. …
for variable renewable energy (SSRN Scholarly Paper 3741232). https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3741232 Heptonstall …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 30 September 2024 English
G20 governments provided at least USD 168 billion in public financial support for renewable power in 2023, less than one third of G20 fossil fuel subsidies that year. Advanced G20 …
fossil fuel subsidies data: 2023 update (Working paper no. 2023/169). https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/ …
School of Public Policy, University of Calgary · 29 September 2024 English
B R I E F I N G P A P E R Volume 17:16 The Captive Insurance October 2024 Opportunity in Alberta: Drivers of Success in Captive Domiciles Erik …
how Alberta can build on its early success, this paper extracts lessons from studies on captive insurance … set up in days. The domiciles examined in this paper also have no insurance premium tax (IPT), engage … new captive legislation (Jain 2024). In our 2022 paper, “Alberta: Considerations in Establishing a New … assessment programs that promote a deeper an open-access paper understanding of effective public policy among those …
Fraser Institute · 27 September 2024 English
Recently, many developed economies, including Canada and the US, have implemented major government programs to promote the growth of specific industries and sectors including electronic vehicles (EVs) and the critical …
part of Western governments. The purpose of this paper is to identify how the nature of industrial policy … characterized as a form of “zombie economics.”3 The paper proceeds as follows. The next section identifies … The New Economics of Industrial Policy. Working Paper 31538. National Bureau of Economic Research. <http://www … independently, the views and conclusions expressed in this paper do not nec- essarily reflect those of the Board …
ULCC: Uniform Law Conference of Canada · 27 September 2024 English
RESOLVED: THAT the report of the working group on Drafting Conventions be accepted; and THAT the Drafting Conventions be adopted; and THAT, having adopted the Drafting Conventions, the ULCC recognizes …
uniform Defamation Act to deal with the change from paper-based conduct to online conduct. Delegates were …
RCCAO: Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario · 26 September 2024 English
September 26, 2024 Chair and Members of the Infrastructure and Environment Committee City of Toronto Toronto City Hall 100 Queen Street West Toronto, ON M5H 2N2 Submitted electronically RE: IE16.4: …
significantly reduce any inconsistencies between what is on paper and what can reasonably be implemented in the field …
Fraser Institute · 26 September 2024 English
The federal government has introduced three new social programs since 2021, increasing permanent spending. This analysis investigates if the media questioned whether the governmentâs new programs observed its own fiscal …
independently, the views and conclusions expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of the Board of …