According to projections, federal net debt will jump by more than $142 billion over the next five years.
budget surplus
March 31, 2023
8:21AM
According to projections, debt interest costs will reach $3.1 billion in 2025/26.
March 22, 2023
4:21PM
Per-person spending will reach $14,790 in 2023/24—an increase of about 5 per cent from 2019/20.
February 28, 2023
4:23PM
Program spending is projected to be $4.2 billion higher in 2023/24 than budgeted just a few months ago.
February 9, 2023
9:30AM
Due to tax hikes in Ottawa and Edmonton, the province's top combined income tax rate increased to 48 per cent.
November 21, 2022
8:42AM
The province's top income tax bracket to 53.53 per cent, the third-highest rate in North America.
April 17, 2018
5:00AM
Ontario and Alberta are projecting budget deficits for years to come.
June 20, 2016
3:00AM
The province should make its personal and corporate income tax system more competitive.
March 8, 2014
2:00AM
When apologists for the provincial government's new borrowing binge defend it on the grounds that private sector companies borrow money for capital expenses so why not have the Alberta government do the same? their defence invariably contains a significant and faulty assumption: that political behaviour is the same as that of private companies.