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This Week's INSIGHT into Government

Week ending 18 May 2012 Vol 26, No 35

Insight's Guide to newly elected MLAs, PDF, 120 KB

  • Federal-provincial relations for Alberta may shift more toward managing relations with other provinces
  • The two ministers responsible for education both face contract issues
  • A strong call to cap the amount of resource revenues that province spends each year
  • A former chief deputy minister sees ways to enhance interdepartmental co-operation (Ron Hicks paper on interdepartmental co-ordination, PDF, 604 KB)
  • Plus …
    • The legislature begins sitting on May 23 and will concentrate on finding new ways to conduct its business
    • New population figures underline the importance of international immigration and the continuing growth of Calgary
    • Thomas Mulcair's unwelcome intervention in the discussion about oilsands development
    • New developments in government communication include both staff changes and use of new tools
    • Why Alberta remains a mid-size fish in a global economic pond.

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