The report found that Alberta's public sector isn't overly large or excessively paid when compared Canada's other populous provinces.

Demetrios Nicolaides, in the meantime, is being non-committal on how he will respond to the report's recommendation to look at consolidating the 26 institutions.

Ten years after the creation of Alberta Health Services, the province's spending on health care still hasn't improved.

Municipalities will have to work more closely together and cost share more. That's one realization from the AUMA as it has published its response to the MacKinnon blue ribbon report from last week.

In what is being sold as the "alternative" to the government-commissioned MacKinnon Report, Parkland Institute is giving its own outlook on Alberta's finances.

Support Our Students advocate Barbara Silva fears an emphasis on "strategic outcomes" will leave already struggling schools and their students in an even worse position.

"We can no longer afford to spend at that rate. We can no longer spend like we're the rich kids on the block because, quite frankly, we're not anymore."