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As expected, the arrival of snow, ice and cold this week led to some chaos on city streets as Edmonton commuters struggled to re-adjust to the demands of winter driving.

For journalists who have been covering the UCP government’s first provincial budget, feelings of whiplash have been going on awhile longer.

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Since the tabling of the budget back on Oct. 24, important fiscal changes that initially went undiscovered or undisclosed have been revealed at such a fast and furious rate that it’s been near impossible to keep focused.

Just as you begin to get your head around the crunch delivered to one program, two more bombshells have already hit the news cycle.

To some degree, this is by necessity.

As it’s turning out, the volume of reforms, rethinks and petty reductions in this budget is so substantial that it would have been unfair — not to mention logistically insane — for the government to dump it all out on budget day.