Annabelle Cloutier tasked with ushering NAC through ‘fragile’ moment for Canadian arts

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government is hiking the application fee for citizen-initiated referendums to $25,000 in the hopes that it will discourage what it calls frivolous petitions. Several groups have been working to bring their special-interest questions to a provincewide vote, but until this week, it cost just $500.