Alberta predicting $2.4-billion surplus for petro-powered economy

  By Dean Bennett in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Alberta is predicting a $2.4-billion budget surplus for its petro-powered economy this year, with plans to take a big bite out of its debt and put up guardrails to prevent eye-popping deficits when oil booms go bust....

Alberta expecting another gusher in budget ahead of provincial election

By Dean Bennett in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada EDMONTON — Alberta is scheduled to introduce its budget Tuesday — the last before a spring provincial election — with political observers wondering what the province will do with all its billions of extra petrodollars. “Any...