{"id":18871,"date":"2016-03-15T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18871"},"modified":"2016-03-15T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:03:11","slug":"fallout-in-alberta-the-oil-crash-isnt-just-about-lost-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18871","title":{"rendered":"Fallout in Alberta: The oil crash isn’t just about lost jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fallout in Alberta: The oil crash isn’t just about lost jobs<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Disillusionment has a way of setting all sorts of bad thoughts in motion<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The story assignment from\u00a0The National<\/em>\u00a0was simple. Go to Alberta and talk to regular people about the crash in the price of oil. Humanize the downturn.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Harsh economic numbers coming out of Alberta aren’t hard to find. A projected deficit of $10.4 billion. An unemployment rate of 7.4 per cent, the highest mark since 1996.<\/p>\n