'Triple black swan' event to push Alberta's budget deficit to $21.3B this year, with 100,000 unemplo

CALGARY – As Alberta was set to unveil new measures to limit the spread of COVID-19, the province’s finance minister tabled a slightly smaller but still significant budget deficit Tuesday, revealing the scars of the pandemic and crude price crash on the oil-producing province. The province’s deficit this year is now forecast to reach $21.3 billion, $2.8 billion lower than forecast in August, when Alberta Premier Jason...