Alberta’s deficit is a choice. We choose low taxes. We choose high
spending. And we pray resource revenues make up the difference.
Sometimes this works out, sometimes (like today) it doesn’t. It’s not
Ottawa’s fault, nor is it equalization’s. It’s our own choice. Period.
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5 things to know about Jason’s Kenney’s fight over equalization | CBC News
Alberta doesn’t write the province of Quebec or the Government
of Canada a cheque to pay for its share of equalization. But it also
means that Canadians with higher incomes will pay more into the
equalization program, much like Canadians with higher incomes pay higher
rates of income tax.
of Canada a cheque to pay for its share of equalization. But it also
means that Canadians with higher incomes will pay more into the
equalization program, much like Canadians with higher incomes pay higher
rates of income tax.
Because a lot of high-income individuals
live in Alberta, they do pay a larger share of the federal budget — and
an equal amount of federal spending does not end up back in Alberta.
This year, the federal government will transfer more than $78 billion to the provinces, $19 billion of which is delivered under equalization.
Why Big Oil faces court cases that echo the litigation against Big Tobacco in the ’90s | CBC News
Dutch journalist Jelmer Mommers, based in Amsterdam and working for De Correspondent and The Guardian, uncovered documents produced by Shell in the 1980s.
He published a confidential Shell report from 1988 called “The Greenhouse Effect” that contains a dire warning: “By the time the global warming becomes detectable it could be too late to take effective countermeasures to reduce the effects or even to stabilize the situation.”
Trudeau told a press conference in
Ottawa this afternoon he clearly has to do more to earn the trust of
people in the two resource-rich provinces. He said that work will start
with ensuring more pipeline capacity is brought online so that oil
producers can sell their product abroad at prices closer to the going
world rate.
Canadian teens to sue Ottawa over government’s role in climate change | CBC News
The impending lawsuit from 15 teens across Canada will claim they have “suffered specific, individualized injuries” due to climate change, interfering with their constitutional rights to life, liberty and security of the person.
Sustainibiliteens, the teenage rally organizers who have organized previous climate strikes in Vancouver, say they are set to speak about the lawsuit ahead of Friday’s rally. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, plans to go to the Vancouver protest.