The chute is open and Albertans are strapped in for what promises to be a wild ride. But this ride will be in the political, not rodeo, arena because politics in Alberta is about to mimic one of our famous…

The central argument of this paper is that Canada should better align provincial own-source revenues with provincial expenditures by turning over the GST to the provinces while simultaneously reducing federal transfers. The paper begins by broadly outlining of Canada’s present…

It is impressive that so many think tanks and NGOs can get worked up over an esoteric issue such as shifting from a mandatory to a voluntary long-form census. While no one questions the value of information to form good…

All conservatives have been intrigued by the spat between the big-c Conservative government and the small-c conservative Fraser Institute over the effectiveness of the federal government’s $47.2-billion Economic Action Plan.

Alberta spent the better part of the last decade of the 20th century becoming the paragon of fiscal virtue.1 Following a 1993 election fought over the nature of Alberta’s spending, the Alberta government set the standard for having a clean…