If the province wants to seize new economic opportunities, it could ease the movement of skilled labour and improve Alberta’s tax competitiveness, among other things.
oil and gas
February 3, 2016
9:51AM
January 29, 2016
3:00AM
Prime Minister Trudeau’s remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davo unfortunately reflect an attitude of discomfort with Canada’s resource economy.
January 27, 2016
9:02AM
The real “resource curse” is the way successive Alberta governments squandered revenues from resource development.
January 21, 2016
11:12AM
The Alberta government can't control the price of oil, but it can control its policy environment, and recent policy changes have caused a decline in investor confidence.
January 20, 2016
3:00AM
Western Canada heavy crude oil is largely captive to demand by U.S. refineries that are configured to process heavy crude oil.
January 19, 2016
3:00AM
Canadians pay about twice the amount of tax on gasoline compared to Americans.
January 14, 2016
3:00AM
The Alberta premier chimed in on B.C.'s opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion.
January 11, 2016
1:36PM
The additional CO2 emissions coming from the oilsands is extremely low.
January 8, 2016
11:22AM
On Wednesday, TransCanada, the company that would have built and operated the Keystone XL pipeline, launched two lawsuits over President Obama’s rejection of the pipeline.
December 9, 2015
2:57PM
That perceptions about Alberta’s investment climate are changing should concern Albertans. As we saw with the last royalty review, perceptions can often become realities.