Tag: Budgets and Revenue

When will Harper stop thinking as an oil CEO and start acting like he is prime minister of Canada? VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 27, 2012/ Troy Media/ – One of the […]

EDMONTON – Ever wonder why Alberta, Canada’s wealthiest province, is running a $3-billion deficit and saying it can’t afford to maintain middle-of-the-road spending on vital public services? That’s the question […]

EDMONTON – A pair of left-leaning advocacy groups have teamed up on a new pre-election advertising campaign to attack the Alberta government’s tax and royalty structure. The $200,000 campaign from […]

It’s no secret that Alberta’s finances were mismanaged for years under Ed Stelmach and that the situation has only become worse since Alison Redford took office. That the richest province […]

Partisan political operators are battling to define the debate over one of the most explosive issues in the coming provincial election: Why can’t a wealthy province like Alberta make ends […]

New book shows Alberta wealth is going to corporate profits, not public services How is it that a province as wealthy as Alberta is running deficits and says it must […]

Albertans are being “played for fools” by corporations making massive profits at the expense of provincial programs and services, says former Liberal leader and scholar Kevin Taft. In a new […]

EDMONTON — This province is a great place to do business, but if Albertans knew just how great, they might have some tough questions for the provincial government, Alberta’s former […]

When Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL), walked into a conference room in Kananaskis to observe the meeting of energy ministers from across Canada in July, […]

The Alberta government must do a better job of collecting revenue to provide the vital public services Albertans have clearly said they want, according to the 2012 Budget submission sent […]

Edmonton – The Alberta Federation of Labour applauds the Obama administration’s decision to delay the Keystone XL pipeline, saying it will give the Redford government an opportunity to pursue value-added […]

Gary Mar has a $660-million question to answer if he wants to become Premier of Alberta, says the province’s largest labour group. “That’s how much money Mar will be giving […]

Vancouver – Through top-down deregulatory and environmental streamlining directives under the recently formed New West Partnership, the British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan Ministries of Energy (for oil and gas) held […]

The British Columbia Ministry of Energy was designated a “lead agency” in a backroom collaboration with Alberta and Saskatchewan to address water concerns for the province’s rapidly expanding shale gas […]

To his credit, Alberta NDP leader Brian Mason has at least brought the increasingly cosmic debate over TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone expansion back to earth. Yesterday in the Calgary Herald, and […]

When energy ministers from around the country gathered in Kananaskis recently, Alberta Energy Minister Ron Liepert billed the meeting as a potentially historic gathering at which politicians will begin long-overdue […]

EDMONTON — Despite Alberta Federation of Labour claims the province blew $2.9 billion on drilling incentive programs that failed to create jobs or investment in the oilpatch, the Conservatives vying […]

Last week U.S. lawmakers decided that President Barack Obama must make a decision sooner than he wanted to on construction of the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline, which would deliver […]

Alberta Tories give away billions of dollars and thousands of jobs The Alberta Progressive Conservative government’s management of the energy industry and provincial finances has come under fire from the […]

The Alberta Federation of Labour says the Premier needs to live up to a five-year-old promise to upgrade more of the province’s bitumen, right here in Alberta. Figures from the […]

New figures released today by the Alberta Federation of Labour show that the percentage of oil-sands bitumen upgraded in the province will drop to 52 per cent by 2016 – […]

As energy ministers from around the country gather in Kananaskis this week, it’s starting to look like the Alberta government is engaging in an old-fashioned game of bait and switch. […]

Is the meeting of energy ministers currently underway in Kananaskis a real attempt to develop an energy strategy that works for Canadians in all regions of the country? Or is […]

Ed Stelmach’s program to stimulate drilling during the recession cost taxpayers $2.9 billion and failed to create promised jobs, new wells or new investment in the oilpatch, says the Alberta […]