Government of Canada

About: Government of Canada is a government organization based out in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Monetary policy & Productivity. The organization has 796 authors who have published 886 publications receiving 21366 citations. The organization is also known as: federal government of Canada & Her Majesty's Government.

The New Investment Paradigm

Abstract: This article in the Economic Insights series summarizes results from current Statistics Canada research on investment and capital stock accumulation. It reports on the study, Intangible Capital and Productivity Growth in Canada. Compiling information on wealth accumulation has been central to Statistics Canada’s activities since its inception. The wealth of the nation is a measure of its financial strength, international standing, and economic power. In 1915, Canada’s first Chief Statistician, Robert H. Coats, compiled Canada’s initial estimate of national wealth at the behest of the Borden Conservatives. He set the value of Canada at $16.3 billion. Since then, the practice of compiling national wealth estimates has continued, with current national balance sheet estimates placing Canada’s 2011 wealth at $6.9 trillion. Over time, the accuracy with which national wealth is estimated has improved, and the scope of assets examined has expanded. This process involved debate about which assets should be included, and how they should be measured.

Economic evaluation of forest drainage and fertilization in northern Ontario peatlands with an investment decision model

Abstract: Drainage and fertilization of an existing peatland black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) stand and 24 possible methods of planting a clear-cut area near Cochrane, Ontario were evaluated by means of a recently developed forestry investment decision model, “FIDME”.

Smoking Among Off-Reserve First Nations, Métis, and Inuit High School Students

Abstract: Using data from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS), this study investigated associations between smoking and a number of school, peer, and family characteristics among off-reserve First Nations (n = 2,308), Metis (n = 2,058), and Inuit (n = 655) high school students aged 12 to 21 years. Logistic regressions revealed important group differences in Indigenous youths' correlates of smoking. Characteristics that were negatively associated with smoking included attending a school with a positive environment or having peers with high educational aspirations among First Nations students; participating in school-based club extra-curricular activities or living in a smoke-free home among Metis; and living in higher-income families among Inuit. A consistent risk factor for smoking among all Indigenous students was having close friends who engaged in risk behaviours.

Health care and refugees in Canada

Abstract: I would like to address some of the inaccurate and misleading assertions Stanbrook made in his editorial in CMAJ .[1][1] Stanbrook states “that the cuts to health coverage have, in particular, denied refugees access to primary and preventive care.” That is absolutely false. Through the Interim

A lightweight multi-party authentication in insecure reader-server channel in RFID-based IoT

Abstract: The rapid proliferation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags in the past decade has made tremendous impact on our daily lives. As part of Internet of Things (IoT), RFID technology ensures an efficient, secure and reliable system to identify tagged objects in supply chain environment such as manufacturing, automotive and healthcare. Several lightweight authentication solutions have been proposed to satisfy optimal security and privacy features of RFID communication. Hopper-Blum (HB) family of protocols that rely on the hard problem of Learning Parity with Noise (LPN) is a series of lightweight authentication protocol used to identify RFID tags. Our study shows that recent RFID authentication protocols from HB family that mostly focus on two party authentication such as tag-reader authentication, in general, cannot be applied directly to a three party authentication such as tag-reader-server authentication. In contrast to typical RFID authentication system, we consider the channel between the reader and back-end server insecure. We focus HB protocol and its variants and propose a modified protocol where the entire system is authenticated under LPN-based scheme.