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REGINA 鈥?Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says there will be tax increases in the provincial budget as part of the government three-year plan to balance the books.It the first time Wall has put a timeline on the government effort to tackle a ballooning deficit that he now says could be about $1.3 billion. If we want to eliminate it in three years, we still then have to make very difficult decisions on the revenue and expenditure side 鈥?and we will, Wall said Monday. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW We wanted to get to a balance. We wanted to have a transparent plan to get to balance ... but also didn ;t want to shock the economy.The Saskatchewan government problem is falling revenue from oil, natural gas and potash. Wall said no one expected revenue from natural resources to fall more than $1 billion and stay that low for three years. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW But, he said, it looks like those lower prices are becoming the new normal.We need to take this opportunity, this challenging time, to begin to move aw
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Indoor dining at Halton restaurants and across the province is set to return following the announcement by the Ontario government that it will gradually ease COVID-19 restrictions.Citing signs of improvement, Premier Doug Ford said on Jan. 20 that the measures we put in place to blunt transmission of Omicron
stanley cups are working. We can be confident that the worst is behind us and that we are now in a position to cautiously and gradually ease public health measures, he said. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Starting Jan. 31, restaurants will be allowed to reopen for dine-in. The new measures also include increasing social gathering limits to 10 people indoors and 25 people outdoors, increasing capacity limits of gyms, cinemas, museums, and casinos at 50 per cent in indoor public settings.As for COVID-19 hospitalizations, there were 129 people being treated in Halton hospitals as of Friday Jan. 21 , with 21 in intensive ca
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