Chronic deficits through good times and bad have led to a roughly $70 billion erosion of the province’s financial assets.
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April 1, 2020
4:17PM
For now, the new wage subsidy program will cost $71 billion.
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April 1, 2020
9:47AM
Businesses large and small face disproportionate property tax rates for the foreseeable future.
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March 31, 2020
4:01PM
Alberta’s energy sector supports more than 500,000 jobs across Canada.
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March 31, 2020
6:00AM
There were 4,588 overdose deaths in Canada in 2018.
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March 30, 2020
1:47PM
Once you adjust for inflation and population growth, Alberta’s economy barely grew at all between 2008 and 2018.
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March 30, 2020
1:31PM
Default risk and exchange-rate risk increase for foreign lenders as they increase their holdings of any government’s debt.
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March 30, 2020
9:36AM
Provincial government debt-service costs are set to reach $13.2 billion this year.
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March 27, 2020
2:50PM
Effectively, the CERB will now cost $40 billion, up from $15 billion.
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March 27, 2020
10:05AM
Letting the price of scarce goods rise forces us to use the limited supply of the good for the most important purposes.
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