Government debt interest payments in Alberta will more than double to $2.3 billion by 2019/20.
alberta government finances
March 6, 2017
10:30AM
Alberta’s recent speech from the throne laid out the Notley government’s vision for the upcoming legislative session.
December 26, 2016
1:00AM
Higher income taxes create disincentives for hard work and entrepreneurship, two important drivers of growth.
November 22, 2016
1:39PM
Alberta ran seven deficits in the past eight fiscal years when oil prices averaged $88 per barrel.
April 28, 2016
9:00AM
Ontario’s cumulative deficit from 2009 to the end of last year was approximately $81.9 billion—50 per cent more than projected in 2009.
April 27, 2016
9:00AM
The budget calls for $2.2 billion in new spending on “green infrastructure.”
January 27, 2016
9:02AM
The real “resource curse” is the way successive Alberta governments squandered revenues from resource development.
June 22, 2015
12:00PM
Rachel Notley’s New Democratic government faces severe fiscal challenges it did not create, but it has an opportunity to solve them. Will her NDP government clean up the fiscal mess left behind by its Progressive Conservative predecessor?
December 27, 2014
10:00AM
There is a prominent view among some in Alberta’s provincial government and elsewhere in the province that believes booms and busts in government finances are a result of the province’s large energy sector.