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  1. Alberta’s debt may eclipse 100 per cent of GDP

    Up until 2016/17, the Government of Alberta had no net debt. That is, its financial assets (such as the Heritage Fund) were greater than its liabilities. The province burned through $35 billion of financial assets beginning in 2008/09, ...

  2. Alberta’s carbon tax will lead to loss of jobs, income, exports, revenues, etc.

    The Alberta media is abuzz with the findings of an internal NDP analysis of its first-concept carbon tax. Chris Varcoe, at the Calgary Herald dropped some of the bombshell findings on June 17. To be fair, the carbon tax was not ...

  3. Why higher Alberta taxes are a dumb idea

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald The last time Alberta was in a fiscal mess due to low energy revenues and over-the-top government spending, some politicians and pundits said what Albertans really needed was higher taxes. That was back in the late 1980s and ...

  4. Dry numbers paint a depressing picture of Alberta's budgetary woes

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald As many students enrolled in algebra class are likely discovering, numbers can be rather dry. But a proper understanding of them is indispensable to modern life. Without hard, reliable numbers regularly checked, much ...