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Alberta lost a record 117,000 jobs in March

The Alberta government released their March 2020 job numbers yesterday, and—unsurprisingly—they don’t look good.

Last month, Alberta lost over 117,000 jobs: 73,600 part-time jobs and 43,500 full-time jobs.

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AMA suing Tyler Shandro for over $255M

The Alberta Medical Association announced today that they’re suing Tyler Shandro, the Alberta Minister of Health, for over $255 million.

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Politics

2 ways to prevent and reverse a recession

Recession is defined by sustained periods of reduced economic activity. Economic activity is primarily driven by consumer spending, so reduced economic activity means consumers are spending less.

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News

The real story behind the Taber Crown land deal

Earlier this week, the Alberta government sold a quarter section of Crown land near Taber to an “anonymous” bidder.

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10 things to know about Alberta’s Keystone XL announcement

You’ve probably seen the announcement by this point that the Alberta government is spending $1.5 billion on the Keystone XL pipeline.

Here are 10 things you should realize about it.

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Alberta workers ignored during COVID-19 crisis

Service Canada received nearly 1 million applications last week for employment insurance, which is 33 times more than the same week in 2019. I haven’t seen the numbers broken down for Alberta, but given that Alberta has 12% of Canada’s population, there’s a good chance that a significant number of those applications came from Alberta.

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News SCS

My response to the SCS review

In September 2019, the Government of Alberta established a Supervised Consumption Sites Review Committee. The government gave the committee a mandate to study the socio-economic impact of supervised consumption sites in the communities where they were located. The government specifically prevented them from simultaneously reviewing the health care impacts of the sites.

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Alberta is not maintaining healthcare spending

If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably seen the following image by now.

It’s an image shared by Tyler Shandro, Alberta’s health minister, as you can see in this tweet below:

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News

Alberta spends too little on healthcare salaries

Between the 2017–2018 and 2018–2019 reporting periods, Alberta Health Services spent 2.97% more on salaries and benefits. That seems like a good thing, right?

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Education News

The problem with performance-based funding

In January, the provincial government announced that they would be moving towards performance-based funding for post-secondary institutions.