{"id":415995,"date":"2026-01-17T20:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415995\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:27:16","slug":"alberta-subsidizes-canadas-pensions-should-it-keep-doing-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415995\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta subsidizes Canada\u2019s pensions \u2014 should it keep doing so?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flanked by former Alberta treasurer Jim Dinning, Premier Danielle Smith announces public consultations on her proposed Alberta Pension Plan.Nigel Hannaford, Western Standard<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"arrow-component arr--section-name\" aria-label=\"section-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernstandard.news\/opinion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The case for an Alberta Pension Plan is structural, not ideological, but voters are being asked to choose before the numbers are settled.<\/p>\n<p><a aria-label=\"author-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernstandard.news\/author\/western-standard-guest-columnist\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"Western Standard Guest Columnist\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"  class=\"qt-image\"\/><\/a>Published on:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>16 Jan 2026, 9:30 pm<\/p>\n<p>Loading content, please wait&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flanked by former Alberta treasurer Jim Dinning, Premier Danielle Smith announces public consultations on her proposed Alberta Pension&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[901,174761,45,49,48,5437,133,927,66321,131,132,38058,174762],"class_list":["post-415995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-alberta","tag-alberta-pension-plan","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-pension-plan","tag-finance","tag-opinion","tag-opinion-column","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-western","tag-western-independence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}