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1. 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 ...

2. Alberta carbon tax will fund bureaucratic expansion, redistribute wealth of Albertans

   Alberta Minister of Environment and Parks Shannon Phillips recently introduced Bill 20, the Climate Leadership Implementation Act. If there was any doubt that Alberta’s climate plan is little more than expansionary tax-and-spend ...

3. Narrative about Canada’s post-recession economic superiority overlooks provincial laggards east of Manitoba

   A popular narrative holds that Canada weathered the global financial crisis and recession relatively well, outperforming many advanced countries economically since 2009. This is true for the country as whole particularly when Canada is ...

4. No coal for Premier Notley (higher electricity bills may be coming to Alberta)

   Alberta Premier Rachel Notley (above) has been making headlines recently as she travelled out East, giving speeches to investors in an attempt to encourage them to put money in the province’s weakened economy. She has also made some ...

5. Three reasons why Alberta’s minimum wage hike is misguided

   Today, the Alberta government is hiking the minimum wage from $10.20 to $11.20, as part of its plan to raise the rate to $15 per hour by 2018. To mark the occasion, we’ve put together a list of three key reasons why raising the minimum ...

6. Sorry, Premier Notley, you can’t have your own facts

   Alberta’s new premier, Rachel Notley (pictured above), has stirred up a bit of controversy over the way she has portrayed Calgary’s environmental record. In remarks made during a televised appearance, Premier Notley compares Alberta to ...

7. An adult conversation about the oilsands

   Max Fawcett, the editor of Alberta Oil, penned an interesting article recently, taking on the newest environmentalist stance on the oilsands, which many Canadians may not understand. The current environmentalist demand is for 85 per cent ...

8. How have Alberta’s young adults fared?

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald When any new government takes power, temptations abound to do something different, merely to distinguish itself from the regime it replaced. That’s understandable political behaviour but overhaul too much on policy and you ...

9. What’s Wrong with Alberta Aggressively Increasing the Minimum Wage?

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald The new NDP government in Alberta has indicated that it will aggressively increase the province’s minimum wage from $10.20 to $15 per hour over the next three years. There are a number of problems with this campaign promise ...

10. Rent control will be a disaster

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald Rent control has been a disaster wherever it’s been tried. But this never stops politicians from suggesting it. Last November, the leader of the then-fourth place party in the Alberta legislature, now newly minted Premier ...