The City of Saskatoon wants a piece of the big money available in the Federal Government’s Smart Cities Challenge. Ottawa has asked for ideas on how to improve life in Canada through technology and data. Saskatoon’s Director of Recreation and Community Development says the city is well on it’s way to meeting the April 24th deadline for developing a Challenge Statement. Lynne Lacroix says they received over 600 responses to their online survey over a period of just two weeks.
Lacroix indicated respondents were most concerned about sidewalks and roads as well and crime and safety. The finalists will get 250-thousand dollars this summer to develop their proposals. There is 10-million dollars earmarked next spring for the winners.
Saskatoon Wants to Capture a Piece of a Ten Million Dollar Prize
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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.”