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Poised to implement its own Property Assessed Clean Energy program (PACE), Alberta is in an ideal position to develop regulations that address the program’s main issues by learning from other jurisdictions’ experiences with PACE.

Philip Bazel looks on a sales tax as an acquired taste for Albertans, who so far have shown little interest in acquiring such a taste. Nonetheless, he says a sales tax is a “pretty clean revenue source,” that has fewer negative impacts than other types of taxes. And while Alberta “falls flat” on the sales tax scenario right now, it is definitely competitive with other provinces when it comes to corporate tax rates.

In 2017, the prevalence of poverty fell in all provinces relative to 2007, however the measured depth of poverty increased. The figure presents data from 2007 and 2017 showing, for each province, the prevalence and the depth of poverty. The prevalence of poverty is the percentage of a provincial population living with an income…

The federal government has pledged to update Canada’s official development assistance (ODA) policy and this paper examines the potential important role of remittances in the development program. Remittances can serve as a significant form of cross-border capital flows and can have sizable effects on both the sending and receiving countries…