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• Second-hand shopping becoming more popular amid rising costs

  With many communities in Saskatoon hosting neighbourhood garage sales, sellers say they are seeing more shoppers. Local thrift stores are seeing a similar pattern.

  Economy

  May 26
• Reform old age security to help tackle Ottawa’s deficit, advocates say

  Ottawa cannot afford to 'be spending our dollars unwisely' right now and should cut OAS payments to wealthier seniors, a policy group urges.

  Consumer

  May 25
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• Walmart says lower-income shoppers are ‘navigating financial stress’

  Walmart says lower-income shoppers appear to be increasingly 'navigating financial stress' as the so-called 'K' shaped economy becomes more prominent.

  Consumer

  May 21
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• Retirement, savings take a hit among parents struggling with child-care costs

  Cost of living pressures are mounting on Canadian couples with kids as around half (50.5 per cent) said they’ve made financial trade-offs to have kids, a new survey shows.

  Money

  May 21
• Severe global food price crisis is looming within 6 to 12 months, UN body says

  The warning was made in a podcast hosted by the FAO that focused on the current chokehold on global energy and how fertilizer supplies are expanding through agrifood systems. 

  World

  May 20
• Beer, alcohol sales falling amid consumer strain and shifting priorities

  A notable decline in beer and alcohol sales in Canada and the U.S. is another sign consumers are both grappling with affordability challenges and shifting their priorities.

  Consumer

  May 15
• Consumer insolvencies highest since 2009 as Canadians struggle with debt

  This is the highest volume of Canadians filling for insolvencies since the first quarter of 2009, when the Canadian economy was reeling from the aftershocks of the 2008 recession.

  Economy

  May 11
• Quebec’s minimum wage now $16.60 per hour

  A study published yesterday by Quebec socioeconomic think tank IRIS shows someone living in Montreal needs to earn about $30 per hour to live above the poverty line.

  Canada

  May 1
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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
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• 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