Alberta budget 2018: Debt to climb to $96 billion by 2023

Alberta faces five more years of deficits and billions of dollars in mounting debt before it sees its balance sheet back in the black. 
The 2018 provincial budget, tabled in the legislature Thursday afternoon by Finance Minister Joe Ceci, tells the story of an economy still recovering from a lingering oil price shock and struggling with market access problems for its crude.
The spending plan forecasts debt ballooning from $54 billion this year to $96 billion by 2023 — a level of