by Brittany Brander | Oct 29, 2022 | Advocacy, Op-Eds
By Susannah Pierce, President & Country Chair, Shell Canada and Cory Janssen, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, AltaML as published in the Edmonton Journal and Calgary Herald Optimism is everywhere in Alberta these days. All around the province, there is a familiar...
by Jess Taylor | Sep 14, 2022 | Analysis, Insights
Just a short seven months ago, during the height of the real estate frenzy, we wrote about deteriorating housing affordability in Canada. To recap, this is how it happened. During the pandemic, the Bank of Canada (BoC) dropped the policy interest rate to a record-low...
by Jess Taylor | Sep 7, 2022 | Analysis, Insights
Over the last few months, consumers have been squeezed by high energy prices while energy companies have brought in more cash than they’ve seen in a decade. To some, this is a problem—one with an obvious solution: tax the additional profits of energy companies to...
by Jess Taylor | Aug 17, 2022 | Analysis, Insights
Interest rates are on the rise in Canada and around the world as central banks scramble to stem the fastest inflation we’ve seen in a generation. Raising interest rates is the most important policy action that central banks can take to combat inflation. Making...
by Jess Taylor | Aug 10, 2022 | Analysis, Insights
Even for a province used to riding the roller coaster, the recent upswing has been exhilarating. Alberta may bring in as much as $24 billion in revenues from resource royalties this year, nearly $20 billion more than initially expected, and about the same above and...