Orders of Merit Awarded Tonight

By Steve Chisholm May 23, 2018 | 10:55 AM

Six people will be invested with the Saskatchewan Order of Merit tonight (wed). The award recognizes citizens who demonstrate exemplary contributions to the province in areas such as the arts, business and industry, agriculture, community leadership and volunteer service. Among the six are three from Saskatoon.

The 2018 recipients are:

National Chief Perry Bellegarde, Assembly of First Nations, Little Black Bear First Nation;
Gail Bowen, Author, Regina;
Dr. Robert Calder, Professor Emeritus and Author, Saskatoon;
Maurice Delage, President of Delage Farms Ltd., Indian Head;
Thelma Pepper, Photographic Artist, Saskatoon; and
Neil Richards, LGBT Archivist and Activist, Saskatoon (posthumous).

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When you receive your carbon tax rebate by direct deposit have you ever not known where it came from, regardless of how it was identified on your statement?

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.”

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