The budget’s focus, she said in an embargoed news conference Tuesday morning, is on protecting the “health and public safety of Saskatchewan people and the province s economy in the fight against COVID-19,” while making “record investments in health care, education, social services, and the protection of people and property.” This budget “will protect Saskatchewan people through the pandemic, as more vaccines are delivered and life begins to return to normal, Harpauer said in speaking to reporters in an embargoed news conference Tuesday. This budget will build Saskatchewan by investing in new long-term care facilities, hospitals, schools, highways and vital municipal infrastructure. And as our province and our economy emerges from the pandemic, this budget will grow Saskatchewan through incentives and key investments, while keeping life affordable for families.
COVID helps push Saskatchewan forecast deficit to $2 6 billion cjme.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cjme.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
REGINA Saskatchewan s 2021-22 budget shows the province is still feeling the financial affects of the COVID-19 pandemic, posting a forecasted $2.6 billion deficit for the fiscal year. For the second year in a row, the budget focuses heavily on health, education and social services spending to ease assist with pandemic-related costs. Deficits are projected to continue over the next three years, at $1.7 billion in 2022-23, $1.2 billion in 2023-24 and $770 million in 2024-25. Based on these projections, Saskatchewan will see seven straight years of deficits through 2025, after posting deficits in each budget since 2018-19. Forecasts for both revenue and expenses are up from 2020-21. Total expense of $17.1 billion is expected this fiscal year, up $1 billion, or 6.3 per cent, from last year s budget. These expenses are also up $1.1 billion from the current 2020-21 forecast.
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SASKATOON A Saskatoon area woman wants to bring awareness to the challenges deaf people face during an era of mask-wearing. “When I’m out there and trying to talk to people I’m super stressed out because I have no other way to communicate with them other than read lips,” said Christin Young, of Martensville, who is deaf. “I don’t know how we’re going to survive this, but I’m doing the best I can because I have to.” She used to be hard of hearing, but now is almost entirely deaf. She had to quit her job as a financial planner because she couldn’t manage Zoom calls once her business moved online.