The Notley government is spinning like mad to distance itself from some painful numbers.
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June 21, 2016
10:18AM
June 20, 2016
1:36PM
Other countries deliver high-performing universal health care at similar (or lower costs) than in Canada.
June 7, 2016
3:00AM
As oil royalties have fallen, Albertans have endured multiple tax hikes and a S&P downgrade.
June 6, 2016
8:56AM
The new tax scheme will cost a family of four about $338 extra in 2017.
April 28, 2016
1:09PM
Alberta projects a budget deficit of $28.9 billion over the next three years.
April 22, 2016
9:17AM
Public schools in Alberta require more than $13,000 taxpayer dollars to educate a student while independent and charter schools require under $5,300 and $9,000 respectively.
April 21, 2016
3:00AM
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has called for pipelines to carry Alberta oil to ports in the Atlantic and Pacific.
April 20, 2016
3:00AM
Since taking office, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has been very aggressive on the climate file. Attempting to remedy what she portrayed as a history of environmental negligence by her predecessors , the premier swiftly increased and expanded Alberta’s carbon tax, placed a hard cap on carbon dioxide emissions, set stiff targets for reducing methane emissions, declared an accelerated phase-out of coal power generation, and promised to replace much of that power with costlier wind or solar power generation.
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.
April 14, 2016
3:30PM
There are 175 collective bargaining agreements with public-sector employees coming up for negotiation in the near future.