If this story sounds familiar, that’s because excessive spending is the cause of every fiscal crisis (as I’ve noted when writing about Cyprus, Alaska, Ireland, Alberta, Greece, Puerto Rico, California, etc). My final observation is that New York City’s current $5 billion budget shortfall...
The Alberta government says it will pick up $700 million of the tab if Calgary were to hold the 2026 Winter Olympics in Calgary. The province says the money is contingent on a majority of voters supporting the bid in an upcoming plebiscite and increased transparency in the organizing process....
When Dr. Julian Somers, director of Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction (CARMHA), was commissioned by Alberta’s Ministry of Health to conduct arapid review of safer supply researchin 2022, his team found that there was no credible evidence t...
“Some service providers are not following their own department’s legislation and supervisors are not enforcing corrective actions,” she writes. “In bringing this to the attention of directors and deputy ministers, there appears to becomplacency and a lack of accountability about th...