The Conference Board of Canada is forecasting moderate economic outlooks for Saskatoon and Regina. Saskatoon’s real GDP is forecast to rise 2.0 per cent this year and 2.4 per cent next. Regina’s is expected to rise 1.5 per cent this year and 2.2 per cent next year. The Board’s fall Metropolitan Outlook blames weak commodity prices, particularly potash, as contributing factors. The document says the slowdown will be broad-based with all sectors of the economy expecting to see more tepid gains. Saskatoon’s construction sector is expected to register negligible output growth starting in 2019.
Moderate Economic Growth Forecast for Saskatoon
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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.”