Two cranes are dominating the skyline over Medicine Hat Regional Hospital and while winter weather did not hamper construction, recent high winds certainly have, says Alberta Infrastructure.
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City won’t feel budget squeeze
Other levels of government may be feeling the pinch, but the City of St. Albert isn’t getting squeezed.
City manager Patrick Draper presented a report to city councillors Monday evening at a regular meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance, saying that, despite the Alberta government dealing with multibillion-dollar deficits and the federal government making changes to several programs, the City shouldn’t feel too many adverse effects.
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Grande Prairie property tax increase drops to 1.56%
City taxpayers will still pay more in taxes for the upcoming year, but the increase is less than expected.
The city’s corporate services committee learned Tuesday that the property tax increase will drop to 1.56% from the original estimate of 3.6% determined after budget planning in the fall of 2012.
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No surprises good news for city funding
For city officials, there were no surprises. But this week’s federal budget offered good news for Lethbridge just the same.
Renewal of the government’s Building Canada Fund means the city can apply for grants for more new projects. Deputy Mayor Tom Wickersham notes current projects benefitting from that program include twin-ice arenas and curling club about to be built on the westside, the North Scenic Drive extension now underway and the new community arts centre nearing completion.
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No tax cuts, little new spending in federal budget
Canadians will see little new spending out of the federal government this year as it attempts to stay on target to eliminate the deficit by 2015, with even a heavily promoted focus on skills development relying on money that was previously committed. But to keep to that deficit-slaying plan the Conservative government is relying in part on booking $6.8 billion by 2018 in tax revenue now lost to tax loopholes and cheating.
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Federal budget will benefit region: Warkentin
Grande Prairie’s MP and the Minister of Public Works and Government Services agree that the 2013 federal budget will leave a glowing effect on northern Alberta.
“It’s great news for Alberta,” said Rona Ambrose, Minister of Public Works and Government Services. “This budget, frankly, is an Alberta budget. First and foremost we’re balancing the budget on time. There isn’t a lot of new spending, but the spending we have invested is to promote jobs and trade.”
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Budget cuts behind Edmonton’s bumper crop of potholes
EDMONTON – Edmonton gambled and lost in the war on potholes this year.
A slowly improving road network led transportation officials to believe they could get away with a $41-million drop in funding for arterial road maintenance in the 2012-14 capital budget.
Then spring 2013 arrived.
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Alberta should be back in black by 2014-15, government predicts in budget
EDMONTON – Alberta’s six-year deficit streak should end in 2014-15 with a $555-million surplus, according to calculations based on the government’s three-year financial blueprint.
The 2013-14 budget released Thursday failed to fulfil the Progressive Conservative promise to balance Alberta’s books immediately without tapping into savings. Instead, the government expects a $1.97-billion deficit, in addition to $4.3 billion of borrowing for construction projects that include new schools, road improvements and health care facilities.
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Budget good news for city: MLA
It’s a belt-tightening budget for Albertans.
And Lethbridge, with so many public-sector jobs, may feel the crunch.
But the city’s members of the provincial legislature say it offers the city good news, just the same.
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Budget ‘good news’ for municipalities
Central Alberta cities hope there’s no devil in the details when they take a fine-tooth comb to the 2013 provincial budget in the coming days.
At first blush on Thursday, there seemed to be no change in the municipal sustainability initiative, the main source of provincial revenue for municipalities.
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