Tag Archives: Business & Economy

Non-profits in Meadow Lake are getting tax relief.City council approved the first reading of the updated tax exemption bylaw No. 03/2022. This allows for consideration of annual tax exemption requests...

Meadow Lake's Farmers Market is moving to a new location.The parking lot at Home Hardware will host the Farmer's Market when it returns on June 10. Market manager Vicki Cockrum said they are very exci...

Expectations for what kind of impact the federal budget will have in Saskatchewan is mixed amongst local city mayors.Political reaction came swiftly after the announcement of the 2022 budget, which pr...

Two Saskatchewan entrepreneurs are tackling a big, but often forgotten issue of wasted receipts.Kim Baldwin and Carmen Johanson, who have known each other since their days at the University of Saskatc...

Conservative Members of Parliament did not hold back in the days following the release of the Government of Canada's 2022 budget.Gary Vidal of Desneth-Missinippi-Churchill River, told meadowlakeNOW th...

The Battlefords Agricultural Society Inc. has cancelled the Spring Home Expo originally scheduled for April 22 and 23. However, the Northwest Territorial Days Exhibition will continue as planned later...

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's second pandemic budget turns Canada's fiscal focus to making life more affordable and giving a long-needed boost to Canadian productivity.She nonetheless wrapped t...

A new Indigenous business venture for Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC) is set to provide economic opportunity and implement environmental stewardship.During a press conference Wednesday morning, MLTC...

Starting in October, the Saskatchewan government will be expanding the provincial sales tax to more services.That means that people will be forced to pay more for gym, golf, and curling memberships, a...

The federal carbon tax is officially increasing which could lead to a jump in prices at the gas pump.Starting April 1, 2022, every tonne of carbon emissions will cost whoever generated it $50. The pri...