State Sen. Monica Martinez announced on Wednesday, June 11, that the Senate has passed her proposed bill to require the state commissioner of taxation and finance to create special equalization rates ...

This has led to a situation where payments continue to expand even during periods of economic convergence. Research cited in ...

Equalization is often a dirty word in Alberta, but much of what is being said online and by politicians mischaracterizes a ...

If Albertans are looking for someone to blame for the apparent unfairness of the federal equalization program, it should be former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper. After all, in quietly ...

Manitoba is at the center of one of Canada’s most talked-about and least understood financial systems. Every year, billions ...

Equalization began in 1957 as a noble gesture to help share the wealth within the Canadian family and ever since, Ottawa and the provinces have been squabbling over it like the putative heirs of Anna ...

Canada’s equalization program has been a perennial and controversial problem due to the sheer amount of money transferred every year, who funds it and the formula used to determine which province is ...

Stephen Maher: It is a dangerous mistake to view Canada as a piggybank into which some provinces make payments and others withdrawals Hugh and Sybil Forbes were living in a trailer park on the ...

Albertans facing a referendum question on equalization appear to be leaning toward supporting removing it from the Constitution, but don’t seem to know exactly what it is. A research brief from Common ...