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My eagle-eyed colleague Emma Graney noticed it first.

A little anomaly on a government press release, calling media to a news conference to hear Finance Minister Travis Toews “provide an update on the province’s 2019-20 Q1 actuals.”

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It was the last word — actuals — that caught Emma’s attention.

In the past, quarterly financial reports the province is required to release haven’t used that term as a descriptor.

The change suggested we were going to see something different from the UCP government’s first ever quarterly report.

On Tuesday, that’s exactly what we got — a set of raw numbers as thin as a New Sarepta phonebook showing how much the province actually made and spent in the months of April, May and June, but with virtually no context to make sense of it.

No suggestion of whether such results were on course or off course.

No projections about whether those results were likely to carry through the year. And no outlook on what the economy might have in store for the provincial treasury.