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Week ending 16 Oct 2009 Vol 24, No 9
Feature Article: The next three weeks will be crucial in the race to fill an emerging vacuum of political leadership in Alberta. (PC party annual meeting website, Danielle Smith website, Mark Dyrholm website)
Also in this week's edition:
- The premier's TV address - what did you learn? (Sample of public opinion hostile to the premier, Premier announces cabinet pay cuts)
- The government wants a two-year public-sector wage freeze; it may want to avoid a confrontation, but it faces well organized resistance, sometimes from surprising sources. (Stop the Cuts campaign, Stop the Cuts campaign launched - media report)
- A proposal to tie increases in provincial government spending to population growth and the rate of inflation begs the question: how would inflation be measured and how often?
- The Child and Youth Advocate's annual report has an appealing look; the actual words carry some bite. (Child and youth advocate 2008-09 annual report, PDF, 2.7 MB, Gov't response to advocate's report, PDF, 32 KB)
- Part 2 of Insight's annual review of public-sector pay and perks.
- The review of how to distribute casino proceeds is taking place behind closed doors.
- The ombudsman's annual report mixes compliments and complaints. (Alberta ombudsman website, Ombudsman's annual report, PDF, 8.1 MB)
- MLAs may have a different view of why it makes sense not to redevelop Alberta Hospital.
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