The structure of Canada's equalization program incentivizes Quebec to maintain below-market electricity rates and results in ...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announces Alberta Next panel details at Heritage Park as Business Council of Alberta president Adam Legge listens on June 24. (Credit: Gavin Young/Postmedia files) The ...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Jan 16, 2014) - Ontario's shift from a "have" to a "have not" province has profoundly affected Canada's equalization program and the country overall, finds ...

Canada’s equalization program has been a perennial and controversial problem due to the sheer amount of money transferred every year, who funds it and the formula used to determine which province is ...

Equalization gets a bad rap at the dinner table and in online comment sections. People picture cheques being shipped to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many people complain about equalization payments, but it takes a true policy wonk to fully explain how they work. The equalization ...

Albertans will vote in a referendum this fall that will ask them whether equalization – the federal program designed to level the fiscal playing field among the provinces – should be removed from the ...

Canada's equalization program is a crutch designed by "Laurentian elites" that prevents eastern Canadian provinces from stimulating their own economies, said several backbench United Conservative MLAs ...

Stephen Maher: It is a dangerous mistake to view Canada as a piggybank into which some provinces make payments and others withdrawals Hugh and Sybil Forbes were living in a trailer park on the ...

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The Alberta Next Panel is tasked with assessing Alberta’s role in Confederation. As it reconvened last week, Canada’s equalization program remained near the top of its agenda. At the same time, the ...