Commodity boom drives provinces to top of GDP growth
Alberta and B.C. yesterday announced that their respective governments have cooperated on harmonized amendments to their insurance laws that aim to enhance consumer protection and increase efficiencies for the insurance industry.The provinces said that the legislation was introduced in the spirit of the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement, which is a joint effort of […]
Strong commodity prices have raised revenues in other provinces
$100 Climate Action Dividend to be distributed in June
Critics blame discount suds for a sharp upswing in binge drinking
Premier Brad Wall and his Saskatchewan Party government narrowly avoided disaster last month, even though the province is enjoying boom times. They were shaken with a ghost from the past, in the form of a long-forgotten videotape of drunken Progressive Conservative party workers during the 1991 provincial election campaign.The 17-year-old video was discovered in the […]
The old debate over co-operation among the Atlantic provinces heats up again
Province to spend $37 billion this year to keep up with growth
The new royalty rate proposals are having unintended consequences for Alberta’s economy
Hundreds of men will soon climb out of their boats off the northeast coast of Newfoundland and gingerly alight onto the heaving pack ice that drifts southward from Canada’s High Arctic. They will then shoot and kill tens of thousands of seals in the annual hunt that has been part of the province’s economy and […]