Add to ORKGFrom the cuts to the Saskatchewan Transportation Company (STC), to slashing public libraries, to hits to post-secondary institutions, to the sudden rethink of the tax roles of local governments, figuring out the policy rationale behind the Wall government’s latest budget is no easy task. Is it meant to be pro-business? Anti-urban? Is it trying to appeal to a voter base that would help keep the Saskatchewan Party in office? For those trying to analyze the budget, the answer could very well be “Darned if I know!” In politics, having a reputation of being muddled never pays off, whether amongst other elected peers such as premiers, or amongst those who can enter a voter’s booth. Here, the budget’s negatives can also be measured in the loss of ...
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The budget’s shortcomings don’t end with the fairness problem THE ABBOTT government’s problems bega...
Municipal finances have of late become important topics of concern for policy-makers. A good deal of...
The 2011 Saskatchewan Election saw a landslide victory for The Saskatchewan Party. They also achieve...
From the cuts to the Saskatchewan Transportation Company (STC), to slashing public libraries, to hit...
The 2007 Saskatchewan provincial election is undoubtedly an important event in the province’s histor...
Alberta spent the better part of the last decade of the 20th century becoming the paragon of fiscal ...
Alberta will enter the third decade of the 21st century with an accumulated public debt of over $70 ...
The fiscal adjustment that Alberta will have to undertake to put its budget on a sustainable path wa...
On March 22, 2017, the Government of Saskatchewan tabled its budget for fiscal year 2017-2018. There...
Provincial budgets may normally make for dry reading, but in Alberta’s case, there is plenty of susp...
The day after Calgarians voted to end the city’s bid for the 2026 Olympic Games, city council quietl...
Provincial governments seem to consider it only natural to finance public infrastructure using debt....
21The measure of rhetorical discordance proposed here is the variance of the “PURC ”-(Per Unit Rheto...
Defining a government by its finances is a tricky business. Adding to the complexity, governments ca...
Allocating new low income housing could be challenging particularly in large cities which emphasize ...
The budget’s shortcomings don’t end with the fairness problem THE ABBOTT government’s problems bega...
Municipal finances have of late become important topics of concern for policy-makers. A good deal of...
The 2011 Saskatchewan Election saw a landslide victory for The Saskatchewan Party. They also achieve...