affordability

Canada’s premiers are wrapping up the summer meeting of the Council of the Federation today. The premiers of the 10 provinces and three territories have been in Halifax for their three-day gathering hosted by Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston. A statement from the premiers says key priorities that have been discussed include housing, affordability and […]

Canada’s premiers will be in Halifax today to begin three days of scheduled meetings in Nova Scotia’s capital. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, who is the current chair of the Council of the Federation, is hosting the event in the city’s downtown core. Houston told reporters after a cabinet meeting Thursday that premiers will be […]

As one province pauses the gas tax to provide savings at the pumps, another is bringing it back.  The Manitoba government says that starting Monday, motorists won’t have to pay 14 cents per litre in fuel tax for the next six months. The province has said it introduced the measure to help motorists with inflation. […]

Food prices will keep rising in 2024, though at a slower pace, according to the latest Food Price Report. The 14th annual report by Dalhousie University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Guelph and the University of Saskatchewan predicted that food prices will rise between 2.5 per cent and 4.5 per cent next year as […]

The inflation rate slowed to 3.1 per cent on a year-over-year basis, down from 3.8 per cent in September, as the price of gasoline fell, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. The agency said the price drivers paid for gasoline in October fell 7.8 per cent from a year earlier compared with a 7.5 per cent increase […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was at the Sherwood Co-op in Regina to highlight their grocery rebate and other affordability measures from its 2023 budget. “The rising cost of living has been made worse in recent years by the pandemic and Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine. Even though analysts are predicting good news as inflation is […]

When your power bill rolls in at the end of April, you will need to dig a little deeper in your wallet to pay it. The Saskatchewan Rate Review Panel has signed off on the 4 percent increase to go into effect April 1st. Sask Power had applied for this increase last year, but the […]

The Bank of Canada hiked its key interest rate yet again on Wednesday morning, bringing it to 3.75 per cent and continuing one of the fastest monetary policy tightening cycles in its history amid warning signs of a potential recession. Here’s how we got here: Oct. 24, 2018: The Bank of Canada’s key interest rate […]

“Moe money” could add to inflation woes in Saskatchewan, but it comes down to how people spend it, some economists say. This week, Premier Scott Moe announced his Saskatchewan Party government would be giving $500 cheques to 900,000 residents in October as a way to offset rising costs from decades-high inflation. “It smacks of politics, and politics will […]

The Saskatchewan NDP is once again calling on the Government of Saskatchewan to provide residents with some affordability relief. The Offical Opposition has been calling for relief for months, which Premier Scott Moe said would come by early fall if resource prices remain strong. Financial reports showed the province raked in $500 million in additional […]