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Sales tax discussion dominates economic summit
Feb 11, 2013

CALGARY — Premier Alison Redford was ready to declare the inaugural Alberta economic summit a success Saturday even without a consensus from the prominent Albertans who spent the day hashing […]

We need pipelines, not pipe dreams
Feb 11, 2013

With all the discussion recently over the lack of so-called value-added jobs, one might wonder why that debate is confined to one sector of the economy. For example, in 2010-2011, […]

Taxes, service cuts hot topics at Redford’s economic summit
Feb 10, 2013

CALGARY – Premier Alison Redford’s first economic summit primed Albertans for a consumption tax, foreshadowed coming service cuts and reiterated the need to access new markets for oilsands products. Virtually […]

Gil McGowan gives the best advice at Alison Redford’s summit
Feb 10, 2013

With academics and everyone but the Tories themselves realizing that the government is too dependent on energy royalties, it was obvious Saturday’s economic summit was little more than a feel-good […]

Much talk of sales tax at economic summit, but Redford says ‘nowhere near’ that
Feb 9, 2013

CALGARY – Alberta Premier Alison Redford says a sales tax isn’t on the agenda, even though many of the panellists at an economic summit that her government convened Saturday said […]

AFL targets royalties and upgrading at economic summit
Feb 8, 2013

Federation president to set the record straight on bitumen glut Edmonton – AFL president Gil McGowan will be tackling Alberta’s revenue problem this Saturday at the Alberta Economic Summit. The […]