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Sask. NDP blasts Moe government for $757 million in extra spending
The Opposition NDP says the people of Saskatchewan deserve answers about extra provincial spending just a month before the budget. On Thursday, NDP Finance Critic Trent Wotherspoon told reporters that...
Feb 22, 2024 Opposition Finance Critic Trent Wotherspoon called the spending "unprecedented." (Daniel Reech/980 CJME)
'Problematic' to include class complexity in talks with STF, finance minister says
As teachers prepare to go on a second one-day strike, the province is showing no signs of changing its position. On Thursday, Finance Minister Harpauer told reporters that she wanted the province's te...
Jan 19, 2024 Donna Harpauer said she wants the STF to come back to the bargaining table. Jan. 18, 2024 (Daniel Reech/980 CJME)
Moose Jaw council passes 2024 budget with 7.6 per cent tax increase
By Shawn Slaght Moose Jaw city council has passed its 2024 budget, which will include a 7.6 per cent municipal tax increase. "This is one of the most unpleasant experiences in my life," Mayor Clive To...
Dec 20, 2023 Moose Jaw city council chambers. (Discover Moose Jaw file photo)
Council passes 2024 Regina budget in abrupt ending to deliberations
Several hours into the fourth day of budget deliberations, and well past suppertime, talks abruptly ended on Monday with a call for a vote and a narrow passage of Regina's 2024 capital and operating b...
Dec 18, 2023 Regina Mayor Sandra Masters says 'it is what it is' when asked about whether the 2024 operating and capital budget should have passed, seemingly, because people wanted to go home. Dec. 18, 2023 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Regina city council to resume budget talks Monday for a fourth day
For a heretofore unconsidered fourth day on Monday, Regina's city councillors will come together at City Hall to debate the 2024 city budget. On Friday afternoon, the capital and operations budget and...
Dec 18, 2023 Mayor Sandra Masters says the utilities budget likely will be passed Monday, but deliberations on the capital and operations budget may not be completed. (Daniel Reech/980 CJME file photo)
Tim Reid, REAL grilled at Regina budget meeting
Regina's city council started parsing through its budget proper on Thursday afternoon, but wasn't expected to finalize things until Friday. Earlier Thursday, city councillors spent several hours askin...
Dec 14, 2023 Regina councillors spent several hours grilling Regina Exhibition Association Limited leadership Thursday during budget deliberations. REAL
was represented by (left to right) Niki Anderson, Tim Reid and Roberta Engel. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Slightly lower 2024 Regina police budget passed
After about five hours of discussion and deliberation, the Regina Police Service budget for 2024 was passed Wednesday afternoon as presented. This coming year is the second of the first two-year budge...
Dec 13, 2023 Deputy Chief Dean Rae presents the Regina Police Service budget to city council, which passed it after five hours discussion on Dec. 13, 2023. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Initial property tax increase in Regina budget talks slightly higher than proposed
City councillors in Regina will be starting from a slightly higher potential property tax increase than was first proposed when they head into 2024 budget deliberations Wednesday. The plan from admini...
Dec 12, 2023 New options on what to do about Regina Exhibition Association Limited’s funding problems have pushed the proposed mill rate increase in Regina up to 2.82 per cent from 2.2. (980 CJME file photo)
'Awful:' Sask. NDP says deficit shouldn't have been a surprise
The Saskatchewan NDP pointed to the provincial government's mid-year financial report on Monday, calling it evidence of the government's awful fiscal management, awful projections, and propensity to w...
Nov 28, 2023 Sask. NDP Finance critic Trent Wotherspoon said if the provincial government had been working more collaboratively with industry and watching and talking with producers more closely, it would have been able ot project this year's budget better. Nov. 27, 2023 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. forecasts $250M deficit in mid-year financial report
Saskatchewan's finances have taken a downturn. The province's mid-year financial report is forecasting a deficit of $250.5 million at mid-year, down $1.27 billion from budget and $736.1 million from t...
Nov 27, 2023 Finance Minister Donna Harpauer. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
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