Alberta has a long way to go to qualify for equalization payments

AB vs 2 have not provinces

Hot topic around our house is Alberta demanding some of that sweet sweet equalization money and threatening to separate if they don't get it. Big talking points are "we pay for Quebec's cheap daycare" and "Newfoundland should have voted CPC - don't hire anyone from NL" We're pretty fact oriented so I did some research and crunched some numbers.

Post Election thoughts

Thankfully the election is over and I can stop seeing smarmy political faces interrupting Property Brothers. Now it's time to get to work. There were good ideas floated by all the parties. Can the parties work together or are they too concerned about their base?

Politics and me

Talking with my dad when we arrived for a visit and he's decided to stop watching news other than, I assume, local evening news. He says he's been much more relaxed since then. When visiting with the in-laws the first thing I asked was if I could turn down the radio. MIL has switched from CBC to Calgary talk radio. Any conversation ends up at odds because there is no agreement on facts to even start from.