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Category: Budgets

Two Sets of Provincial Budgets

Most years, I do a spring round-up of provincial budgets as they relate to post-secondary education.  Last year was a wash-out because some budgets didn’t happen until the fall, but this year almost everyone has managed to bring one in more or less on time (the exception being Newfoundland and Labrador, where the budget was delayed by a rather needless election that managed to take about four months to complete).  So, today I am going to look at what has

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May 5, 2021 4 Comments

Budget 2021

Good morning all.  The HESA Towers team, split over four time zones, came together brilliantly last night to bring you our regular federal budget analysis, which you can find here.  Enjoy.   (We finished by midnight which is an hour or two faster than usual.  We probably would have been done earlier if the Government of Canada didn’t make it essentially impossible to track spending data on youth employment over time.   Two thumbs down to ESDC on that score).  This is a difficult

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April 20, 2021 1 Comment

The Growth Budget We Aren’t Going to Get

There’s a federal budget coming later today.  I know, it’s hard to remember what one of those is like: it’s been 25 months and several hundred billion in unscheduled expenditures since we last had one.  As usual here at HESA Towers (well – virtual HESA Towers, or maybe HESA Towers-in-exile) will be bringing you analysis of what the budget means for post-secondary education.  But this morning, I thought I would give a sense of what I think is heading down

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April 19, 2021 No Comments

The Alberta Budget

Everything you need to know about last Thursday’s horror show in a handy Q&A session. Q: What’s the damage this time? A: I swear to God I do not understand how the province of Alberta explains anything financial.  The University of Alberta claimed the system-wide cut was $126 million, the Globe and Mail said it was $135 million.  I count the cut to operating institutions as being $175 million if you use the 20-21 budget as a base, and $142 million

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March 1, 2021 3 Comments

Laurentian Blues (4) – Who is Next?

Note: since the publication of this post, Concordia University and St. Thomas University have provided responses disagreeing with the assessment of this post. Click the university names above to read their respective positions. So, the mixed metaphor I keep hearing is that Laurentian is the canary in the coal mine, and there must be other dominoes ready to fall.  And people seem to assume I know who is next.  In fact, my priors are that there are probably not any

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February 9, 2021 1 Comment

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