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1. It’s official—Alberta’s 2015/16 deficit larger than initially thought

   Appeared in the National Newswatch, July 14, 2016 There’s no doubt that 2015/16 was a bad year for Alberta’s public finances. And with the recent release of the provincial government’s 2015/16 annual report, we now know just how bad it was. According to ...

2. New sales tax wrong way to fight Alberta’s deficit

   Appeared in the Edmonton Journal, February 8, 2016 A group of Alberta-based academics recently published an op-ed claiming that “Alberta must bring in a harmonized sales tax” to eliminate the province’s budget deficit. The authors are correct that Alberta ...