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Ministers McConalogue and Hackett announce ‘Project Woodland’ to tackle issues in forestry Workstreams with stakeholder input to deliver action on backlog and new strategy Irish Rural Link to assess community needs The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue T.D. and the Minister of State Senator Pippa Hackett today announced ‘Project Woodland’, an initiative to tackle issues in forestry in Ireland and drive forward the planting of trees. The Ministers accepted a report on reforming the Irish Forestry Licensing system, and...

The University of Calgary’s Board of Governors voted to increase tuition and fees at a meeting on Dec. 11, 2020. For the second consecutive year, most undergraduate students will be facing an increase of seven per cent. Tuition for incoming students in engineering will increase by 10 per cent and incoming international students will also see their tuition increase by 10 per cent. These increases will begin in May. Student fees will increase with daily parking rates going up by $1 a day, residence rates increasing by between two and three-and-a-half per cent depending on type, and the Studen...

Article content This is a historic development given that Alberta has had the highest fiscal capacity in Canada every year since the modern notion of “fiscal capacity” was developed in 1967. We also estimate that Saskatchewan’s per-capita fiscal capacity will also exceed Alberta’s this year, dropping Alberta to third place. So why should Albertans care about this rather wonky set of fiscal facts? Because we can draw several policy implications from this analysis, including that Alberta’s government spending levels are even more unsustainable and unaffordable than before. As was deta...