Retail sales in Canada rose 0.4 per cent January to February. Saskatchewan did slightly better than that, increasing 0.6 per cent. Only two provinces were higher: Ontario at 0.7 and Nova Scotia at 3.2. Year-to-year, Saskatchewan only rose 0.9 per cent. The national average was an increase of 3.5 per cent. Three provinces fared worse than ours. Retail sales in Saskatchewan in February totaled $1.65 billion.
Retail Sales Slightly Up in Saskatchewan in February
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The Candian government wants the country’s banks to identify, in customers’ bank statements when they receive the carbon rebate, that it is labelled as such.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the lack of a clear identifier is contributing to confusion about carbon price rebates, so he is going to change the law if he has to in order to force the big banks to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits.
The first rebate deposits in 2022 were labelled very generically, which meant recipients had no idea why they were getting the money.
T-D and B-MO have adopted the government’s requested “CdaCarbonRebate” entry, R-B-C and Scotiabank say they couldn’t make the change in time for the rollout, and C-I-B-C is still calling it “Deposit Canada.”