By 2018/19, the cost of servicing Alberta’s provincial debt will roughly double to $2 billion.
joe ceci
March 17, 2017
8:41AM
By 2016/17, Alberta’s debts exceeded its financial assets for the first time since 2000/2001.
March 16, 2017
3:10PM
By 2019/20, Alberta’s net debt will reach $45 billion or $10,000 for every man, woman and child.
March 15, 2017
10:35AM
Spending choices have largely driven the province’s nearly unbroken string of deficits.
March 10, 2017
6:00AM
The Notley government will unveil Alberta’s 2017 budget next week.
February 23, 2017
6:00AM
Alberta plans to increase spending this year faster than any other provincial government in Canada.
December 1, 2016
8:54AM
Alberta government program spending is up $700 million from what was initially budgeted.
August 26, 2016
3:45AM
Alberta’s first-quarter fiscal update now expects the province’s operating deficit this year will be $10.9 billion.
August 23, 2016
2:38PM
Sustained program spending growth by successive governments is the primary reason for the big deficits.
April 18, 2016
12:00PM
The province has run an operating deficit in all but one year since 2008/09—even when oil prices exceeded $90 per barrel.