Dec. 8: Trudeau GST holiday and possible cheques will not do anything to reduce food costs for Canadians in 2025

Dec. 8: Trudeau GST holiday and possible cheques will not do anything to reduce food costs for Canadians in 2025

Author: Global News / Curiouscast December 9, 2024 Duration: 18:26
The much trumpeted but rejected by Canadians according to national Leger polling, Trudeau GST holiday and possible cheques for $250 for Canadians earning less than $150k in 2023 will not do anything to reduce food costs for Canadians in the new year. As 6.8 million Canadians live in daily food insecurity, including 2.1 million Canadian children, Canada's 2025 Food Price Report predicts a family of four in Canada will spend an additional $800 during calendar 2025. Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director of the Agri Foods Lab at Dalhousie University.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Dec 28:Food issues in 2024 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 18:10
Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director of the Agri foods lab at Dalhousie University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 28: Future of Roy Green Show [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 14:12
Guest: Mike Bendixen. National director of talk, Corus radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Roy Green Show Podcast December 14th: Trudeau angers Trump and Elon Musk, Federal government forces postal workers back to work,  GST/HST tax holiday begins and Doug Ford prepares to cut off electricity flow from Ontario to U.S. border states [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:05
Today’s podcast: Justin Trudeau angers Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and is the PM now preparing to toss another lieutenant over the side? This time, Minister of Finance and Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland in favour of former…
Dec. 14: The GST/HST tax holiday begins today until February 15 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:03
The GST/HST tax holiday begins today until February 15. A poorly timed and thought-out doomed-to-fail effort by Trudeau to score points with voters? - Or, something else? Elon Musk's personal fortune reached $447 billion…
Dec. 14: The federal government forces a return to mail delivery [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 11:16
The federal government is forcing a return to mail delivery as Minister for Labour Steven MacKinnon yesterday said he is pausing the work stoppage by Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers until May. MacKin…