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Week ending 18 Sep 2009 Vol 24, No 5
Feature Article: Scores of institutions and agencies dependent on government grants now have more to worry about than just money; they're worried about a lack of clear communication of fiscal plans.
Also in this week's edition:
- The Calgary-Glenmore byelection delivers a significant rejection of the premier and his party, but the end-of-days attitude in some of the resulting commentary is overwrought. (Wildrose Alliance party website, Alberta Progressive Conservatives' website).
- Cabinet approved several significant orders this week, including the implementation of long-delayed pieces of legislation and the approval of large municipal annexations.
- New statistics show that Alberta's institutions of higher education depend more on provincial grants for research and development funding than similar institutions in other provinces. (Statscan - estimates of 2007-08 R&D spending in post-secondaries, related C.D. Howe Institute commentary on tax competitiveness, Sept. 2009, PDF, 2.6 MB).
- Alberta New Democrats struggle over purity versus political adaptability; a surprising new force will impose itself in that debate. (Democratic Renewal Project website)
- A new minister is appointed to cabinet. Was he a second choice?
- Appointments of MLAs to executive committees signal a turn to a more hardnosed fiscal policy.
- The arrival of a Wildrose Alliance member in the legislature will prompt a re-examination of party funding. But the defection of one or two other MLAs to the Alliance could do much more - it could severely damage the status of the New Democrats.
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