Seeing red: Alberta’s budget and plans to get out of debt ... eventually

CALGARY — Alberta’s government vows to run a small surplus within four years, but that will come at the expense of the public sector and provincial post-secondary schools. It also plans to get out of the oil-by-rail business, paying an estimated $1.5 billion penalty to let the private sector take that over. “Alberta today has the highest per capita deficit and fastest growing debt of any province or state in North America,” said provincial Finance Minister Travis Toews. &