Jason Kenney’s convenient blueprint to fix half of Alberta’s fiscal house
Of course the premier’s specially appointed panel gave him the answer he wanted. It had no choice.
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Jason Markusoff
Jason Markusoff writes about Alberta, from the stubbornly flat parts to the magnificently bumpy bits. He has lived in Edmonton and (currently) Calgary, and spent 12 years reporting for the cities’ largest newspapers.
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