Alberta went from spending $61 per person on provincial debt interest costs to roughly $563.
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December 14, 2022
9:37AM
The province's net asset position deteriorated by nearly $23,000 per person between 2007 and 2021.
November 24, 2022
4:42PM
Governments in Alberta have a long history of increasing provincial spending during periods of high resource revenue, which inevitably leads to deficits once resource revenues decline.
October 26, 2022
10:30AM
As resource revenue began increasing, Alberta’s per-person government spending increased from $7,393 to $13,114.
October 21, 2022
8:54AM
Alberta’s government-sector workers enjoy a 9.3 per cent wage premium over their private-sector counterparts.
September 1, 2022
8:28AM
From 2008/09 to 2020/21, the province's net financial position deteriorated by almost $100 billion.
August 15, 2022
4:41PM
Resource revenues are set to increase substantially.
August 3, 2022
10:10AM
In 2017, the province's per-person spending reached its highest level since 1965.
July 5, 2022
8:28AM
Alberta’s fiscal improvement is good news, but without significant policy changes, it will only last so long as commodity prices stay high.