{"id":502972,"date":"2026-02-27T11:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/502972\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:59:22","slug":"alberta-finance-minister-heads-to-calgary-to-discuss-budget-and-its-9-4b-deficit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/502972\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta finance minister heads to Calgary to discuss budget and its $9.4B deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">CALGARY \u2014 Alberta&#8217;s finance minister is set to hit the road today to discuss a new provincial budget that is big on spending but also carries an eye-popping deficit of more than $9 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Nate Horner will discuss the budget with business leaders at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Horner tabled the spending document Thursday, saying that while a rising population and low oil prices have put the squeeze on finances, it\u2019s critical to keep spending and weather the storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The Opposition NDP says Premier Danielle Smith\u2019s United Conservative government has mismanaged the economy, wasting profits from the past oil boom while saddling future generations with debt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The president of Alberta&#8217;s doctors association says the nearly six per cent increase in health-care spending is welcome news, while the Alberta Teachers&#8217; Association says it hopes the province follows through on budgeted promises of more money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The mayors of Alberta&#8217;s two biggest cities have differing views, with Calgary&#8217;s Jeromy Farkas taking issue with education property taxes going up while Edmonton&#8217;s Andrew Knack says he knows the hike is needed to properly pay for schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 27, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Dayne Patterson, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 Alberta&#8217;s finance minister is set to hit the road today to discuss a new provincial budget&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[901,200810,49,2798,98228,48,52880,59707,200016],"class_list":["post-502972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-alberta","tag-alberta-teachers39-association","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-chamber-of-commerce","tag-canada","tag-finance-minister","tag-nate-horner","tag-provincial-budget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502972","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=502972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}