Personal income tax and transfer payments from Ottawa will be the largest sources of income for the UCP government this year. If it wasn’t for them, the provincial debt would be much higher.
Tag: alberta
Yesterday, Sonya Savage, the Alberta minister of energy, announced a new chair for the Alberta Electric System Operator.
I compared 40 years of data for inflation and minimum wage increases in Alberta. And I found no connection between the two.
The Alberta premier announced 3 cabinet changes. Plus, there was a bonus announcement of a promotion for a public servant.
While researching data for my recent story on labour productivity in Lethbridge, I came across a dataset regarding wages in Alberta. I found some of it interesting and thought I’d share some of it with you.
Statistics Canada recently released a report on hours worked and labour productivity in the provinces and territories in 2019. Alberta had the lowest increases among all the provinces.
Earlier this month, Statistics Canada released the annual statistics for labour force characteristics by industry. I went through them to see which industries employ the most people in Alberta.
Some people are convinced that the UCP are guaranteed a win in 2023. Me? I’m not sold on that idea just yet.
I recently encountered a dataset called “First Marriage for Bride and Groom, Age of Groom by Age of Bride”. I was intrigued.
Last week, the federal government announced that they’d be sending nearly $2.7 million to Alberta for the Food Processing Development Centre.