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Category: Alberta
Alberta is right to expand its employee sunshine list
Reading Time: 3 minutes The single biggest day-to-day expense for the Alberta government is labour costs
Alberta’s desperation opens the door to environmental ruin
Reading Time: 3 minutes The government of Premier Jason Kenney has decided to end a 44-year moratorium on open-pit coal mining in southern Alberta
May my grandchildren never hear the E-word again
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s been a long time coming, but the Edmonton CFL team’s name change was the right thing to do, says Inuk writer and researcher
No-fault insurance runs counter to free-market ideals
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews says companies tell him they’re selling insurance at a loss. So why are they even selling insurance?
Paris emissions targets carry extra costs for Canada’s economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes The gap between expectations and existing policy is wide. Closing that gap will cost thousands of jobs and devastate whole economic sectors
Corporate tax cuts aren’t just a handout to the rich
Reading Time: 3 minutes Higher corporate income tax doesn’t just impose costs on people who own corporations, but also people who work for them
Municipal governments are making the economy worse, not better
Reading Time: 3 minutes If councillors were half as creative at looking for savings as they are at looking for new ways to spend, then Alberta’s economic challenges would have been solved by now
Alberta sweeps away energy industry roadblocks
Reading Time: 3 minutes A new bill eliminates non-functional regulations, reduces approval timelines, and emphasizes efficiency and certainty in the approval process
Crude oil crystal ball shows cloudy future
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite some rosy forecasts, most European oil giants are slashing their oil price forecasts