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Poilievre slammed for yet another “misleading” tweet promising Canadians “$1,000 in a single day”

By Mary Simpson Jobs minister Pierre Poilievre is facing a chorus of derision for promising Canadian families “$1,000 in a single day” under the Harper Government’s Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB), coming in the heels of the Tory minister’s misleading

PC royalty miscalculation robs Alberta of $13.5 billion

NDP leader Rachel Notley has vowed to carry out a cautious royalty review

A royalty miscalculation by Alberta’s governing Progressive Conservatives robbed the province of $13.5 billion, according to a University of Alberta study. Alberta introduced new royalty formulas in 2009, expecting to collect an additional $2 billion per year in royalties, but,