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Week ending 22 Jan 2010 Vol 24, No 20
Feature Article: The government's health care policies may or may not be changing, but its attitude toward public concern about health care has turned around radically
Also in this week's edition:
- The energy industry competitiveness review seems headed toward much more than adjustments to natural gas royalties.
- Which ministers and MLAs gained and lost influence as a result of last week's cabinet shuffle?
- The cabinet shuffle was immediately followed by a handful of quiet but significant changes among senior government officials.
- Several months after the fact, the premier sheds a bit of light on why he rolled back a three-month-old liquor tax increase last summer. (Liquor retailers' table of government markups on alcoholic beverages, PDF, 32 KB)
- An official trustee is appointed to run the Northlands School Division, and a three-person inquiry team will investigate ways to improve several aspects of the division's operations. (Accountability statistics for Alberta school jurisdictions)
- If the province demands more federal cash, federal Treasury Board Minister Stockwell Day may end up complaining about decisions he made as provincial treasurer in 2000.
- What Alberta can learn from Finland about research and innovation. (Official launch of Aalto University in Finland on Jan. 8, Annual reports of the Finnish Innovation Fund, Advanced Education Minister Doug Horner speaks to U.S. audiences about Alberta's innovation agenda)
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