Please allow me the liberty of quoting at length the last paragraph in Mr. MacLean’s editorial. Names and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the innocent:  “This country has many senior rank economists, including ones in Atlantic Canada, possessing…

Sometimes you have to take government at its word.  In the case of the latest Alberta budget, two sentences in the government’s fiscal plan suggest its spending plans are unsustainable.  Exhibit A is the sentence at the top of page…

After 44 years and $180-billion dollars in equalization spending (not adjusted for inflation) the Atlantic provinces are only barely more able to meet the needs of their citizens with their own revenue sources than they were when equalization was introduced…

All attention these days is focused on the political de-alignment that seems to be taking place in Ottawa. But it is an emerging political re-alignment in Canada’s provinces that will fundamentally reshape the country within the emerging global economy. It…

Two prominent Alberta-based institutes recently released reports that risk feeding the politics of envy that says Alberta’s economic success is unfair. Fortunately, a closer look at the reports combined with a clear understanding of federalism suggests that Alberta’s success is…