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Saskatchewan Roughrider President and CEO, Craig Reynolds and Chief Financial Officer, Kent Paul were front and centre at the team’s Annual General Meeting on Tuesday night. Their financial update from the 2023 season showed a $1.1-million operating loss. The biggest dip in revenue year-over-year was a $1.9-million shortfall in ticket sales. Reynolds admitted that a […]

Prairie South School Division has accumulated over $1 million in unpaid salaries because of teachers’ job action activities, but the province will claw back that funding once the contract situation is settled. Division administration presented a third-quarter financial update during the recent June board meeting, along with a forecast for the rest of the school […]

Sarah Ritchie in Ottawa A new poll suggests the Liberals have not won over voters with their latest budget, though there is broad support for their plan to build millions of homes. Just shy of half the respondents to Leger’s latest survey said they had a negative opinion of the federal budget, which was presented last […]

It’s now up to the federal Liberal government to sell a spending plan it says will help younger Canadians catch up to their elders. So far, if unsurprisingly, their critics and political rivals are unimpressed. The $535-billion budget seeks to restore economic fairness for millennials and gen-Z voters at a time when the minority government […]

In the end Premier Scott Moe didn’t get either of his two wishes regarding the 2024 federal budget delivered Tuesday. At a speech to delegates Monday at the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association convention in Regina, Moe had called for the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program to be reloaded and funded, and also called for the […]

Manitoba’s NDP government is set to introduce its first budget today since winning last October’s election. The fiscal plan is expected to include rebates on electric vehicles, a bigger tax credit for fertility treatments, and free prescription birth control — all of which were NDP campaign promises. The budget is also extending the fuel-tax holiday […]

On the same day that thousands of teachers were striking outside the provincial legislature, the Government of Saskatchewan announced $3.3 billion for the Ministry of Education in their 2024-2025 provincial budget. Overall, education is seeing an increase of $247.8 million, or 8.1 per cent, over last year. It is targeted at supporting prekindergarten to grade […]

A total of $20.1 billion was invested in this year’s Provincial Budget, with significant investments in education and healthcare leading the way. Despite the ‘record investments’ highlighted by the provincial government, Official Opposition Leader Carla Beck said the government did nothing to address the biggest issue facing residents in the province. Affordability. “As families across […]

This year’s Saskatchewan budget delivers a total of $7.59 billion, an increase of $726.4 million or 10.6 per cent in health care. The budget expands patient care and services to meet the increasing demands of a growing population, increases access to primary care through support for physicians, nurse practitioners, and other health professions, and funds […]

The 2024-25 Saskatchewan provincial budget features major spending on education, health care, municipalities and capital investments — and has a deficit to go along with it. A projected deficit of $273.2 million is forecast in the budget tabled by Deputy Premier and Finance Minister Donna Harpauer in the legislature Wednesday. It is the final budget of her […]