Statistics Canada says investment in new housing construction fell 24.3 per cent in Saskatchewan in June from the same month the year before. That was by far, the largest decline of the three provinces that saw a drop. Manitoba was off 3.4 per cent and Alberta was down 2.7 per cent. Nationally, investment rose 6.3 per cent. The $23.7 million decline here was a result of lower spending on single home construction. Total spending in Saskatchewan in June was $73.8 million.
New Housing Construction Declines in June
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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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