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• Priest calls out Ottawa audience in award speech for book on homelessness

  An Anglican priest has won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for her book detailing her fight to allow an encampment to remain in the yard beside her church.

  Politics

  Apr 30
• Kinew says tax-free prepared food plan will expand to corner stores

  The NDP government originally planned, in its March budget, to remove the sales tax from all food at grocery stores only, but the exemption may be extended to corner stores.

  Politics

  Apr 24
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• Carney is suspending Canada’s fuel excise tax for nearly 5 months

  Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced a temporary suspension of the federal fuel excise tax starting next week until Labour Day.

  Canada

  Apr 14
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• Advocates say rising minimum wages still fall short across Canada

  Minimum wage workers in Nova Scotia will earn a quarter more per hour when the rate increases to $16.75 on Wednesday. It will increase again to $17 this October.

  Economy

  Apr 1
• Ontario minimum wage to rise to $17.95 on Oct. 1

  The current minimum wage is $17.60. The government says someone earning minimum wage and working 40 hours per week will see an additional $728 per year.

  Canada

  Apr 1
• Food bank in Saskatchewan moves to limit visitors: ‘Our hands are tied’

  A 150 per cent increase in visitors at Moose Jaw’s food bank, combined with stagnant food donations, is forcing the non-profit to limit how often clients can pick up goods. 

  Economy

  Mar 25
• Trim OAS for higher income seniors? 73% says yes, new poll suggests

  A new poll finds there is growing support for a proposal to lower an Old Age Security (OAS) threshold for some Canadians in order to help reduce the federal government's deficit.

  Consumer

  Mar 24
• 73% of Canadians say ‘many’ stay in relationships for finances: survey

  The survey also found that over a quarter of Canadians (27 per cent) say 'if they won the lottery and had a partner, they’d likely split up with their partner.'

  Money

  Mar 24
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• Is the pain of the K-shape economy bleeding into the middle class?

  Canada's middle class appears to be struggling, with new data showing more are taking on debt as financial pain bleeds out into broader sections of the economy.

  Consumer

  Mar 19
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• Canmore’s Livability Tax Program one step closer to reality

  The program creates residential property sub-classes with different tax rates based on occupancy, applying a higher rate to properties not used as a primary residence.

  Canada

  Mar 12