Both premiers faced budgets that were made all the more challenging by the high-spending premiers that preceded them.
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The most significant omission in the magazine’s piece disparaging Alberta is how it skipped over the big picture, the worldwide one.
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Ronald Reagan never wavered in his conviction that America was a great country that would prevail over enemies of democracy and freedom. His current successor governs on the premise that America is no longer great.
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Like any conspiracy theory, it is impossible to track every strand in the origin of the belief that income tax is unconstitutional. It appears, however, that Canadian myths are mutations of similar American tales.
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The Notley-Loyola sympathies matter because, whether Guevara or Chavez, New Democrats still seemed impressed by revolutionary rhetoric over the hard-work reality of how economies, actual justice, and countries are built and prosper.
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Unlike the subsidized sectors, an option for both reducing carbon dioxide emissions and allowing for cheaper energy comes from the United States, which demonstrates the virtue of letting technology drive reform of energy use.
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The various appeals to tax Albertans ever higher repeatedly failed to inspire a rush to the polls, including, arguably, in 2015. Between 1997 and 2008, the NDP vote never recovered to even the devastating 1993 wipe-out levels.
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In this first of two excerpts from Ralph vs. Rachel: A Tale of Two Alberta Premiers, Mark Milke examines how Rachel Notley's NDP government turned Ralph Klein's free-market approach to liquor sales on its head, and stuck Alberta taxpayers with a hangover.
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The Manitoba action is significant because it reveals the one-size-fits-all model is not only inflexible but ignores a deeper question.
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Anti-energy activists have long been funded not only by foreign money, but also by Canadian governments and companies in Canada’s energy sector. They have all amplified the minority voices who have polarized the domestic political and policy debate over resource development and environmental protection.
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The new free-trade deal is better than no treaty on trade. The lack of a deal would have completely exposed Canada to protectionist American sentiment from the White House on down.
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Every society needs a combination of both concepts to thrive.
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Only when the last bit of propaganda ends, might more people realize that from increasing forest cover to cleaner rivers, many environmental indicators have been trending positive for decades.
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That a company would move to high-tax Illinois tells us all we need to know about how costly it has become to remain in Ontario.
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Cultural purists, especially in the mass travel and internet age, are in denial about the reality that no society is culturally “pure” and that is most often a good thing.
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Sincerity and character may not always lead to friendship, but the deepest and most real friendships cannot exist without them.
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To be fair, many politicians manage and micro-manage but not to the degree of Wynne.
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Meanwhile, down in Washington state, gas sells for 95 cents a litre including just 16 cents in tax.
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Ontario’s top 1 % already pay 26.5 % of all provincial income tax.
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Honest thinking leads to clear analysis and that leads to solid writing and impact. That describes members of the Calgary School
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