I’d interested to see how much outstanding is actually people gaming the system, vs people that got caught up in a system that was intentionally designed to get money in people m’s hands and figure it out later. In my wife’s case, she qualified for CERB and received it, then the wage subsidy program came out and applied retroactively. She was made retroactively ineligible with no clear way to return the excess and when CRA dod reach out for repayment they made the process much more painful than it should have been.

Then there’s things like the benefits would be front-loaded, so presumably anybody that was laid off and then found employment would have ended up with some amount owing. Somme people that would have been eligible for regular EI got moved to CERB and were then found in-eligible for that. There was also a lot confusion about how it applied to things like seasonal workers or people in positions that may or may not have ended during the time that CERB was available.

Yep. Not sure of it’s still true recently but I know last time I looked up pricing between other carriers the prices in Sask were about $20/month lower than other provinces. Presumably this is due to Sasktel providing real competition and providing real service in rural areas.

Shitty think is they’ve kind of been limited by the Sask Party preventing them from providing services outside Saskatchewan, even if those services were profitable and bringing money into the province.

On the home internet side, Sasktel has always seems to have more consistent service, more upload bandwidth and no bandwidth limits. I even tested out some online backup systems, uploading about 20 TB/month for a few months straight and never heard anything about “excessive” usage. As far as I know they don’t do any kind of traffic monitoring or shaping on their home internet services.

They also have their own MVNO, Lüm Mobile, that can be pretty affordable for most users.

Ya, some small/moderately sized single dwellings would be good. I get that part of the goal is densification and the existing plans support that well, but I think there’s room for more compact single family dwellings designed for smaller lots. Maybe even something that’s designed with the idea of future additions where a person can get a starter home built, and add on as their family grows.

Is that still a thing? I know the greener homes grant is ending and not taking new applications. Presumably something else will be implemented in the not too distant future. I will say that depending on the project the grant is a relatively small benefit. We used it for windows, and it covered something like 25% of the cost, but it also meant we had to pay for everything up front and get the rebate back months later. That’s not affordable for a lot of people. The home loan program helps a lot with that but wasn’t available until after we closed our grant.