There were fewer front-line staff serving a larger provincial population. And they made less last year than they did the year before.
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In January, the provincial government announced that they would be moving towards performance-based funding for post-secondary institutions.
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4 takeaways from the new SCS study
The study blew up on social media, with traditional media framing it as crime and “social disorder” being on the rise since the SCS opened. However, there are a couple of findings that I thought were important to highlight.
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Tax breaks don’t help the poor
Tax breaks, top ups, matching funds—none of them help poor people because they all require poor people first spending money they don’t have.
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How balanced budgets destroy jobs
Balanced budgets rarely come with increased revenue, which means they must be accomplished with decreased expenses. And decreased expenses always means job losses.
At the beginning of December, Lethbridge-East MLA Nathan Neudorf went on a pro-capitalist rant in the Alberta legislature. This is my response.
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Tax cuts are job cuts: a running total
In this article, I will keep a running total of the number of public sector job losses in Alberta.
To my right-leaning friends: do not vote for UCP and Jason Kenney today. Jason Kenney is corrupt. He cares about only one thing: power. And he has no problems lying and cheating to get it. His plan for the economy is to give rich people and corporations tax cuts, on the backs of the rest […]