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1. Despite smaller projected budget deficit, Albertans can’t afford to discount province’s fiscal challenges

   A boost in projected revenues this year have reduced the expected deficit for 2021/22, but this will only provide a small amount of relief. ...

2. Alberta needs new (old) rule to stabilize government resource revenues

   In 2020/21, Alberta’s non-renewable resource revenue will comprise only 4.7 per cent of provincial revenue. ...

3. Alberta economy recovering from COVID but government finances remain cause for concern

   The province's net debt will reach a projected $102.1 billion by 2023/24. ...

4. Kenney shouldn’t bank on resource revenues to balance budget—despite high commodity prices

   A reliance on non-renewable resource revenue has caused trouble for the provincial finances for decades. ...

5. Despite Alberta pleas, Trudeau government maintains ‘stabilization’ status quo

   The program offset just 3.5 per cent of Alberta’s year-over-year revenue loss. ...

6. No PST—Alberta government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem

   The provincial government ran deficits in 12 of the past 13 years. ...

7. Kenney has no choice—he must tackle government compensation

   Of the Alberta government's $54.3 billion in total spending, 50 per cent was on wages and benefits for government workers. ...

8. 1990s put Alberta’s fiscal problems into alarming perspective

   As a share of the provincial economy, Alberta's recent deficits are larger than those incurred in the early ’90s. ...

9. Kenney government tables another bad news budget—but don’t just blame COVID

   Alberta's new budget projects a $18.2 billion deficit in 2021/22. ...

10. Kenney government must learn from fiscal mistakes—and successes—of the past

    Alberta's deficit this year will be the largest in history, relative to the size of the provincial economy, at 6.9 per cent of GDP. ...