Who was Barbara Mitchell?
  1. Search
  2. alberta debt
  3. Site

Search

Search results

  1. How does Alberta’s deficit stack up against the other provinces?

    Alberta’s budget is coming in a couple weeks and expectations are that the government will unveil a deficit for the current fiscal year totalling at least $5.9 billion. How does this number stack up against the other provinces? Let’s ...

  2. Alberta would be in surplus, not deficit, had the government restrained spending

    Appeared in the Globe and Mail October 13, 2015 When Finance Minister Joe Ceci unveils Alberta’s budget on Oct. 27, Albertans can expect a sizeable deficit. In fact, the government’s latest data suggest a $5.9 billion deficit, but Minister Ceci has ...

  3. A brief fiscal history of Alberta government finances

    Alberta’s NDP government is expected to announce a deep budget deficit in the fall, which according to Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci (pictured above) is supposed to fund additional infrastructure spending and bolster GDP. Indeed, the ...

  4. Rachel Notley is Bob Rae 2.0

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun There are many parallels between Alberta’s first NDP premier, Rachel Notley, and Ontario’s only NDP premier, Bob Rae. Some similarities, like the fact neither was expected to even contest the election let alone form a majority ...

  5. Worried about Alberta’s budget? Stop counting on high resource prices

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald Forty-one billion dollars. That’s the extra amount, over and above what was needed to keep pace with population growth and inflation between 2006 and 2013, this to fund Alberta government program spending in those years. So ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Alberta's 2012 Fiscal Time Bomb: A higher deficit and a steep decline in financial assets

    In its February pre-election budget, Alberta relied on unrealistic economic assumptions, ignoring private sector forecasts that were more realistic than its own. It appears to have been overly optimistic about oil and gas forecasts, among others. As a ...