- May 21: New report: Alberta’s whistleblower legislation ineffective:
Fails to protect whistleblowers and does not ensure allegations will be investigated - May 16: Warnings from what Albertans think
- May 09: New report looks at Albertans’ views on governance:
Strong support for election spending limits and the role of protest groups - Apr 17: Taking the Reins:
New report says public interest best served by slowing down bitumen production - Apr 07: Pipelines won’t solve our problems:
Focus remains on exporting oil rather than our energy security - Apr 02: Ralph’s mighty machine enfeebled
- Mar 21: Alberta’s ‘Back to the Future’ Budget
- Mar 01: Fairness is found in equality, progressive taxation
- Feb 28: A majority of Albertans support a return to progressive taxation:
New report shows that fair and progressive taxes could solve Alberta’s fiscal woes - Feb 22: Alberta has a new export: the petroleum trap
- Feb 19: Contracting out maintenance of infrastructure has reduced transparency and put tax dollars at risk
- Jan 29: Beyond the headlines:
What the Fraser Institute report really says about public sector compensation - Jan 28: Alberta is Canada’s most unequal province:
and Calgary the most unequal city - Dec 04: The trouble with money:
Katz campaign contributions only scratch the surface - Nov 01: Alberta has the richest rich and the poorest poor in Canada:
New report highlights dangers and causes of rapidly growing disparity in the province - Oct 30: Saskatchewan’s Public Liquor System Superior to Alberta and BC private retailers:
in price, revenue and mitigating social harm - Oct 15: Shipping Alberta bitumen to China? It’s a very slow boat
- Oct 01: Elite’s lectures on free lunches often spiced with hypocrisy
- May 11: Way forward for Greece is unclear:
But perhaps a new Greece - a new world - is being born - Apr 19: For-profit health options fraught with peril
- Apr 18: Cost of infrastructure private-public contracts impossible to track:
Study finds privatization reduces accountability and transparency - Apr 10: New report highlights dangers of private health care:
HRC example shows private costs more and puts tax dollars at risk - Apr 09: Royalty reform long overdue:
Public share of resource wealth has fallen since Lougheed era - Mar 15: Misplaced Generosity:
Alberta government set to forego $55 billion in royalties over next three years - Mar 07: Alberta’s Wage Gap Still Highest in Canada:
New fact sheet shows status of Alberta women lagging behind the rest of the country - Mar 05: Alberta could lead next national energy program
- Feb 23: In Residential Long-term Care, Delivery Matters:
Research shows direct link between for-profit ownership and lower quality - Feb 22: It’s time Alberta stopped giving away its oil
- Feb 17: Family Day on the Treadmill:
Albertans have among the lowest leisure time and longest work hours in the world - Feb 15: Does anyone in government really care about Canadian jobs?
- Jan 27: Harper must get fired up to deal with fuel shortage:
Lack of contingency plans for likely international oil crisis will leave Canada in the cold - Dec 05: New report says markets are a poor solution to Alberta’s water woes:
Non-market solutions would be better for environment, public interest, and First Nations - Nov 07: Edmonton conference to look at how workers are fighting back against attacks on their rights and dem
- Oct 06: Taxes and the ghost of Bob Blair
- Sep 01: The debt crisis: A case of false memory syndrome
- Jul 27: What in tar-nation?:
There’s less than meets the eye to Alberta’s surprising about-face on a national energy strategy. - Jun 21: Billing Doctors:
A look at criticisms of fee-for-service in health care - Jun 02: It’s time to fix Alberta’s broken revenue system - new report
- Jun 01: Frontier Centre’s argument not based in fact:
Changing water allocation system requires careful analysis of all alternatives - Feb 25: Tories’ gross fiscal mismanagement sells Albertans short:
Government focuses on spending without beefing up available revenues - Feb 23: New research shows infrastructure spending is not out of control
- Feb 07: Wildrose leader’s private model a flawed remedy for health care
- Dec 09: Treaty rights impacted downstream of tar sands:
Chiefs call on governments to protect Athabasca river - Dec 05: Generosity for energy sector, tough times for everyone else:
As industry rakes in billions, public services are cut and deficit grows - Nov 25: Misplaced Generosity:
New report says extreme oil profits come at expense of government revenue - Nov 18: Starting the debate:
Margaret Atwood and the Parkland Institute tear up Canadian mythology to write a new one - Nov 02: We need extra capacity, not vague Health Act
- Sep 21: Health Care System Needs Action, Not a New Health Act:
New Parkland Institute report identifies health care challenges and proposes real solutions - Jun 24: Tax the bads, not the goods:
Time to talk about Calgary's revenue needs - Jun 15: Calgarians ready for a mature conversation about taxes:
Parkland Institute releases new report - Jun 07: Proposed changes to Alberta Health Act require reassessment:
Bankruptcy of for-profit Calgary clinic portends worse, more costly system - Jun 02: Nothing to gain and everything to lose:
New Parkland Institute report says Alberta Health Act initiative should not proceed - Apr 08: Refurbish and expand Alberta Hospital Edmonton: new research released
- Apr 03: Searching for a reason for the Tories’ royalty cuts
- Mar 29: The perils of corporatized water
- Mar 08: Alberta’s wage gap highest in Canada:
New Parkland Institute research shows Alberta women still have a long way to go - Feb 14: Coverage on the Remaking Alberta conference
- Feb 11: “Robbing Peter to pay Paul”:
Health funding hike comes at expense of other essential services - Feb 11: Parkland Institute recent media interviews on the provincial budget
- Feb 06: Alberta families pay most in Canada for health, education, and utilities
- Feb 03: Revenue the real problem:
Now's the time to dip into 'rainy-day' fund, avoid raising taxes - Feb 03: New research shows Albertans pay the highest out-of-pocket costs for services
- Dec 29: Time to change Alberta taxation:
Cutting social programs not the answer to provincial deficit woes - Dec 16: Parkland Flat Tax report the subject of iNews880 interview with Stelmach
- Dec 16: “Flat Tax” costing Alberta over $5 billion:
Think tank says returning to 1999 tax structure would put Alberta in a surplus position - Dec 04: Weak Canadian position at Copenhagen just one symptom of flawed business model in energy sector
- Nov 21: Alberta has a duty to resist health care cuts
- Oct 21: Breaking the myth:
Alberta's spending is mediocre at best - Oct 18: Stelmach’s ‘Way Forward’ will be more painful than even Klein’s cuts:
Government that's truly interested in stimulating the economy and keeping Albertans working should be investing in public services - Jun 25: Health care budget cuts are unnecessary:
Numbers show spending on public health services no higher than in 1990 - Apr 19: Instead of cuts, Liepert should increase health spending:
Delisting services boosts costs for businesses, consumers; threatens economy - Mar 25: Yesterday’s fuel, yesterday’s deal:
Petro-Canada, taken over by Suncor, pushes to deliver more fossil fuels when the world is moving to renewables - Mar 09: Oil and gas incentives deliver poor return:
Funds for health, schools would create more jobs - Jan 25: Solution to our economic woes lies in boosting wages of workers:
Easing social inequality, not tax cuts and credit, the key to recovery - Jan 18: Gold Bar proposal much more than just a harmless ‘transfer’
- Oct 10: Eastern Canada vulnerable to oil shortages:
New Report Calls for Canada to Set Up Strategic Petroleum Reserves - Oct 02: Parkland Institute Signs on to Statement Calling on Canadian Political Leaders to Stop Ducking Obama
- Sep 18: Aging Boomers Will Not Cause Crisis in Health Care Affordability:
New Report Calls on Alberta to Improve Services for Seniors Today - Sep 17: Canada prohibited from cutting gas and oil exports to the U.S. - even if we experience shortages
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