Unions Cry Foul, but Ontario and Alberta Must End Runaway Deficits

Sam Hammond, president of the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, joins protesting teachers’ union members outside Ogden Junior Public School where Education Minister Stephen Lecce was making an announcement, in Toronto on Nov. 27, 2019. The Canadian Press/Chris Young

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After years of overspending, new provincial governments in Ontario and Alberta are trying to rein it in.