Alberta marches forward, on boggy fiscal footing
As it tables another red-ink budget, the Notley government conjures a diabolical alternative for Albertans to imagine
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Canadian politics are sexist. What are men going to do about it?
Female politicians are speaking up about the harassment they experience on the regular, but the issue won’t improve until men stop staking their masculinity on power.
Rachel Notley takes on pipeline critics—even if they’re from her party
The Alberta Premier on selling a pipeline in Vancouver, diversifying the economy, and surviving a merger on the right
Trudeau crunches the crude math of pipeline politics
Evan Solomon on Justin Trudeau’s tough political calculus on Trans Mountain, and the real reason he approved it
Will Ottawa’s plan for a national carbon price work?
A Q&A with economist Andrew Leach on what we know about the Trudeau government’s national carbon price plan, and all the questions that remain unanswered
The line item that shows the NDP can’t clean up Alberta’s balance sheet
How desperate is the Alberta NDP to avoid cuts to public services? There’s a veritable laundry list of ways.
Making sense of a $15 minimum wage in Alberta
Alberta’s proposal for a $15 minimum wage is unlikely to have much of a negative impact on employment, but that doesn’t mean it’s the best option
The economic cost of carbon policy
The chair of Alberta’s climate change advisory panel on what he wishes its final report had said about the economic impact of carbon pricing
It’s ridiculous to call a carbon tax a sales tax. Here’s why.
A carbon tax is no more a sales tax than income taxes are, writes University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe
The Alberta NDP’s convenient peek into the shadows
The Notley government’s release of a normally secretive “CIA” audit raises the question: Why are Albertans kept in the dark about other audits?