Riders rent reduction a 'contractual matter', no legal threat: Reynolds
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The $1.33M rent reduction comes from what the club owed during seasons impacted by the pandemic.
8:30 – Today is the day. The federal carbon tax comes into effect this morning in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and New Brunswick. Fuel prices will increase by 4.4 cents/litre as the government adds tax of $20/ton on carbon emissions, set to rise to $50/ton by 2022. Many have opposed the carbon tax, including producers and the business community, but none have opposed it as strongly as Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe. Moe joins Gormley to discuss the carbon tax and Saskatchewan’s ongoing effort to challenge it.
LIVE: Premier Scott Moe.
9:00 – The Hour of the Big Stories… Open Session
10:00 – There is a lot of anti-Trudeau sentiment in the air, with the carbon tax now imposed on four provinces and the SNC-Lavalin affair dogging the federal government. These moods seem to be reflected in the polls, with most firms giving the Torries a lead over the Liberals. The Angus Reid Institute’s most recent federal poll gave the Conservatives a 2.4 per cent lead, but there were massive differences in partisanship between men and women, older/younger voters, and rural/urban voters. To help analyze the latest federal polls and what the trends tell us, Join is joined by Ian Holliday, researcher with the Angus Reid Insitute.
LIVE: Ian Holliday, researcher at the Angus Reid Institute.
12:00 – There’s a big convoy and rally against the carbon tax planned in Regina. In addition to the carbon tax, they’re also rallying against Bills C-69 and C-48 and in support of pipeline construction. The rally will happen at the Queensbury Convention Centre starting Thursday at 2 p.m. Blair Stewart, one of the rally’s organizers, joins the show to give an update on the event on the day the carbon tax takes effect.
LIVE: Blair Stewart, co-organizer of the Regina Rally Against the Carbon Tax.