In Canada, deficit spending keeps winning elections
No matter the party, governments run deficits because spending wins votes
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Alberta politics
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Alberta didn’t kill carbon pricing. It just picked different winners
A system meant to cut emissions now steers money away from wind and solar and toward oil and gas
Alberta is killing a free-enterprise golden goose
Alberta talks up free enterprise, but its treatment of renewable energy tells a very different story
Alberta was right to kill the minimum wage bill
Bill 201 would have repeated the Notley-era minimum wage policy that led to declines in youth employment
Silence is accelerating Alberta’s democratic decline
Fear of repercussions is driving people away from participating in public debate in Alberta
Scott Moe shows what real leadership looks like
Scott Moe and Danielle Smith responded very differently to Mark Carney’s trade agreement with China
Canada has a policy-driven food inflation problem
A web of regulations, compliance costs, carbon pricing and interprovincial trade barriers is quietly pushing food prices higher
Rent controls don’t fix housing shortages. They make them worse
Canada keeps trying to regulate its way out of a housing shortage. Argentina tried something else, and the rental market improved
Dirty political dealings are now routine in Alberta
Recent events in Alberta point to a political culture that increasingly tolerates bad behaviour
Why investors still don’t trust Canada’s pipeline promises
The Ottawa-Alberta pipeline MOU does little to address the policy, regulatory and political risks that have stalled major energy projects in the past
