John Vanderkamp   First Editor Canadian Public Policy

Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de politiques is pleased to announce that the winner of the John Vanderkamp Prize for the best paper published in the Journal in 2008 is: B. Curtis Eaton and Mukesh Eswaran, Differential Grading Standards and Student Incentives, XXXIV, no. 2 (June) 2008, pp. 215-36.

The Vanderkamp Prize is awarded annually and is worth $2,000. The winning paper is selected by a multidisciplinary panel. We would also like to acknowledge the following paper for Honourable Mention: J.C. Herbert Emery and Ronald D. Kneebone, Socialists, Populists, Resources, and the Divergent Development of Alberta and Saskatchewan, XXXIV, no. 4 (December) 2008, pp. 419-40.

Dan Usher, The Reform of Equalization Payments, XXXIII, no. 3 (September) 2007, pp. 337-66.

Honourable Mention: J. Stephen Ferris and Stanley L. Winer, Just How Much Bigger Is Government in Canada? A Comparative Analysis of the Size and Structure of the Public Sectors in Canada and the United States, 1929-2004, XXXIII, no. 2 (June) 2007, pp. 173-206.

Stuart Landon, Melville L. McMillan, Vijay Muralidharan and Mark Parsons, Does Health-Care Spending Crowd Out Other Provincial Expenditures?, XXXII, no. 2 (June) 2006, pp. 121-42.

Honourable Mention: Bryan Campbell and Steve Murphy, The Recent Performance of the Canadian Forecasting Industry, XXXII, no. 1 (March) 2006, pp. 23-40.

Paul V. Grootendorst and Michael R. Veall, National Catastrophic Drug Insurance Revisited: Who Would Benefit from Senator Kirby's Recommendations, XXXI, no. 4 (December) 2005, pp. 341-58.

Honourable mention: René Morrissette and Yuri Ostrovsky, The Instability of Family Earnings and Family Income in Canada, 1986­1991 and 1996­2001, XXXI, no. 3 (September) 2005, pp. 273-302.

Ian Keay and Cherie Metcalf, Aboriginal Rights, Customary Law and Renewable Resource Exploitation, XXX, no. 1 (March) 2004, pp. 1-27

Glenn W. Harrison, James P. Feehan, Alison C. Edwards, and Jorge Segovia, Cigarette Smoking and the Cost of Hospital and Physician Care, 29(1), March 2003, pp. 1-19

Honourable Mention: L.S. Wilson, Equalization, Efficiency and Migration: Watson Revisited, 29(4), December 2003. pp. 385-395

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