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// Running total since 2019 $74B+ in confirmed cost, lost investment & transferred liability to Albertans See the receipts
A reference companion to The Receipts

Where the receipts come from.

Every claim on this site is built on a primary source: an Auditor General report, an Information Commissioner finding, an Elections Alberta investigation, a court filing, or investigative reporting in a mainstream Canadian publication using primary documents. This page is the index. Each entry is a sentence about what the source is and what it establishes — the substantive accounts are on the topic pages.

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Auditor General of Alberta

Independent officer

The Office of the Auditor General is established under the Auditor General Act and reports to the Legislative Assembly. It is independent of cabinet. Its findings are made on the public record and are not subject to retraction by the government.

Information & Privacy Commissioner of Alberta

Independent officer

The OIPC oversees the access-to-information and privacy regimes. The Commissioner reports to the Legislative Assembly. Findings of non-compliance bind no one but are part of the public record.

Elections Alberta

Independent officer

Elections Alberta is the independent, non-partisan officer of the Legislative Assembly responsible for administering provincial elections.

The Globe and Mail

Investigative reporting

Reporting beginning July 2024 documented the personal-and-financial network around Sam Mraiche and the AHS procurement file. Subsequent reporting covered the Wyant report, the RCMP search of MHCare offices, and the Saudi-flight disclosure.

CBC News

Investigative reporting · FOI

Multiple files: the Pawlowski / Coutts call recording; CBC FOI documents on AESO renewables; the DynaLIFE coverage; the Saudi-flight disclosure; the back-to-school Charter override.

Global News

Reporting on the legislative record

Coverage of the Guthrie tablings, the Schilling "fundamentally disgraceful" quotation, the Bill 2 invocation, and the MHCare RCMP search.

Canadian Press

Wire reporting

Wire copy on the Guthrie tabling and the back-to-school invocation, picked up across Canadian newsrooms.

The Narwhal

Investigative reporting

Independent Canadian non-profit investigative outlet. Primary source for the Horner Ranches reporting and earlier coverage of orphan-well liability transfer.

The Tyee

Independent reporting

Independent west-coast outlet with sustained AIMCo and Alberta-procurement coverage.

Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Friendly witness · Fiscal-conservative advocacy

The CTF is among the country's most consistent fiscal-conservative voices. It is cited on this site as a friendly witness on corporate-welfare spending and on the fuel-tax decision.

Fraser Institute

Friendly witness · Free-market policy think tank

Centre-right free-market think tank. Cited as a friendly witness twice on the Heritage Fund Opportunities Corporation: the Fraser Institute warned that HFOC prioritises political goals over fiduciary duty, the same critique made by progressive critics.

Pembina Institute

Energy & environment policy

Canadian energy and climate policy non-profit. Quantified the renewables moratorium impact at $33B in stalled investment.

Parkland Institute

University of Alberta research institute

Independent research institute at the University of Alberta. Cited for Rebecca Graff-McRae's commentary on the AG's DynaLIFE findings.

Alberta Federation of Labour

Research · Labour-side analysis

Cited for the MacKinnon Panel research and for the Hugh Mackenzie analysis of the $24B/$7B residential electricity overpayment since 2001 deregulation.

Borden Ladner Gervais

Legal commentary

Bay Street national law firm. Cited for the March 2025 analysis of the Alberta Escalator and the Taxpayer Protection Act.

Alberta Medical Association

Professional body · Statutory representative of Alberta's physicians

Statutory representative of Alberta physicians under the Health Professions Act. The "No answer to our SOS" letter is the foundational professional-body witness on the Healthcare page.

Insurance Bureau of Canada

Industry body

National industry body for property and casualty insurers. Used as a primary witness on the auto-insurance regulatory file rather than relying on consumer-side advocacy alone.

Corporate & institutional statements

First-party documents

Documents authored by the parties whose decisions are at issue. Where a party has put its position in writing, the writing is the citation.

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Every claim on this site has a primary source. Where a claim's primary source is missing, the claim is missing. Where a primary source contains a denial, the denial is on the page where the claim is.

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