Exiting management of health care and focusing only on governance is key to achieving reform Albertans re-elected Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party with a majority last week. Smith now offers a chance to change how we think about health care – a radically conservative vision. What might that include? Many conservatives trumpet out-of-pocket payments as…
Edmontonians are an unambitious lot, more interested in civil service/public sector job security than encouraging a dynamic business sector How did it happen? How could an entire city vote for the opposition? How could an entire ALBERTA city, one-third of the province’s population, elect 20 New Democrat socialists into the provincial legislature? One hundred per…
Expand Taxpayer Protection Act to prevent any future carbon tax burden on Albertans Albertans have an advantage: they have lower taxes protected by law. The Taxpayer Protection Act is one of the strongest laws protecting taxpayers in North America. It’s the reason Albertans don’t have a provincial sales tax. While our neighbours in Saskatchewan and…
How serious is the NDP about paying down the Alberta debt? Alberta’s debt is the elephant in the room. What’s Alberta’s debt situation? The United Conservative government posted a $10.3-billion surplus in this February’s budget. Alberta is still about $79 billion in debt. That costs Albertans about $2.8 billion in annual interest charges. That’s billions…
The NDP leader’s health care promises have been tried and failed for decades Fighting an election over health care seems stacked in NDP leader Rachel Notley’s favour. Voters come primed to accept what she says. She need not justify her ideas or prove how she will pay for them. Her promises sound familiar to voters,…
But independent schools face barriers because of over-regulation Schools reclaiming space from libraries and music rooms for classrooms. Planned expansions to buildings. Bringing in portables. Waitlists in every grade. Sounds like a familiar story in Alberta’s education system, right? Plot twist: This is what’s happening in Alberta’s independent schools. Parents are moving hell and high…
The tax promise would shield Albertans from tax increases without their OK The United Conservative Party’s promise to shield Albertans from future tax hikes is a game-changer for working people and entrepreneurs. The UCP is pledging to add personal income and business tax hikes to Taxpayer Protection Act. The Taxpayer Protection Act is one of…
The two parties vying for victory in the Alberta election have vastly different approaches to education The Alberta election campaign is now underway. Polls indicate that it will be a tight race between Danielle Smith’s UCP and Rachel Notley’s NDP. With the NDP well ahead in Edmonton and with most of rural Alberta locked in…
Adding it to the Taxpayer Protection Act will ensure Albertans never have to pay an Alberta carbon tax again There’s bad news, good news and hope for the future. The bad news is that Albertans are paying more to drive to work, heat their homes, and buy groceries, thanks to the latest federal carbon tax…
Prairie provinces have agreed to work together to improve Western Canada’s transportation corridors By James Snell and Deborah Jaremko Canada’s prairie provinces have signed an agreement that could benefit energy trade with other countries. Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba entered a memorandum of understanding in April to improve western Canada’s interconnected road, rail, air, energy and…
Exiting management of health care and focusing only on governance is key to achieving reform Albertans re-elected Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party with a majority last week. Smith now offers a chance to change how we think about health care – a radically conservative vision. What might that include? Many conservatives trumpet out-of-pocket payments as…
Edmontonians are an unambitious lot, more interested in civil service/public sector job security than encouraging a dynamic business sector How did it happen? How could an entire city vote for the opposition? How could an entire ALBERTA city, one-third of the province’s population, elect 20 New Democrat socialists into the provincial legislature? One hundred per…
Expand Taxpayer Protection Act to prevent any future carbon tax burden on Albertans Albertans have an advantage: they have lower taxes protected by law. The Taxpayer Protection Act is one of the strongest laws protecting taxpayers in North America. It’s the reason Albertans don’t have a provincial sales tax. While our neighbours in Saskatchewan and…
How serious is the NDP about paying down the Alberta debt? Alberta’s debt is the elephant in the room. What’s Alberta’s debt situation? The United Conservative government posted a $10.3-billion surplus in this February’s budget. Alberta is still about $79 billion in debt. That costs Albertans about $2.8 billion in annual interest charges. That’s billions…
The NDP leader’s health care promises have been tried and failed for decades Fighting an election over health care seems stacked in NDP leader Rachel Notley’s favour. Voters come primed to accept what she says. She need not justify her ideas or prove how she will pay for them. Her promises sound familiar to voters,…
But independent schools face barriers because of over-regulation Schools reclaiming space from libraries and music rooms for classrooms. Planned expansions to buildings. Bringing in portables. Waitlists in every grade. Sounds like a familiar story in Alberta’s education system, right? Plot twist: This is what’s happening in Alberta’s independent schools. Parents are moving hell and high…
The tax promise would shield Albertans from tax increases without their OK The United Conservative Party’s promise to shield Albertans from future tax hikes is a game-changer for working people and entrepreneurs. The UCP is pledging to add personal income and business tax hikes to Taxpayer Protection Act. The Taxpayer Protection Act is one of…
The two parties vying for victory in the Alberta election have vastly different approaches to education The Alberta election campaign is now underway. Polls indicate that it will be a tight race between Danielle Smith’s UCP and Rachel Notley’s NDP. With the NDP well ahead in Edmonton and with most of rural Alberta locked in…
Adding it to the Taxpayer Protection Act will ensure Albertans never have to pay an Alberta carbon tax again There’s bad news, good news and hope for the future. The bad news is that Albertans are paying more to drive to work, heat their homes, and buy groceries, thanks to the latest federal carbon tax…
Prairie provinces have agreed to work together to improve Western Canada’s transportation corridors By James Snell and Deborah Jaremko Canada’s prairie provinces have signed an agreement that could benefit energy trade with other countries. Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba entered a memorandum of understanding in April to improve western Canada’s interconnected road, rail, air, energy and…