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8 March 2011
Marking International Women’s Day and supporting the findings of a recent YWCA report on the need for more licensed childcare spaces in the province, NDP Education critic Cam Broten noted that Saskatchewan ranks dead last of all provinces in the number of licensed childcare spaces for children up to five years of age.
Broten said the difficulty that families have in finding affordable, accessible childcare in the province is both a barrier to the financial success of the family and an economic cost to society when women – often the primary caregivers in a household – are prevented from fully participating in the job market or advancing their careers as quickly as men. Indeed, the YWCA report notes that 13.4% of women working part-time in 2009 cited “caring for children” – not personal choice – as the reason they did not work full-time.
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Read more... [Broten calls for early learning and childcare to be a top priority]
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NDP Innovation critic Len Taylor said the Wall government has failed Saskatchewan people by refusing to inform them of the death of the proposed Saskatchewan-Montana Carbon Capture and Sequestration project and should apologize for the deceit.
The province had been expecting $100 million from both the Canadian and US federal governments to proceed with the project but having learned of the lack of funds in the fall of 2010 – as admitted to reporters yesterday by Innovation Minister Rob Norris – failed to tell Saskatchewan people that the much-hyped project had been axed.
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Read more... [Saskatchewan-Montana carbon capture project officially dead]
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28 February 2011
Saskatchewan NDP Housing critic David Forbes today refuted the view that rent controls would reduce the supply of new rental units in Saskatchewan, pointing to figures that show rent-controlled Winnipeg generated new rental units at a faster rate than Regina and Saskatoon.
“From 2007 to 2009, CMHC data show there were fewer than 300 rental unit starts in Saskatchewan’s two largest cities combined, in spite of a strong economy and record low vacancy rates. During the same period, Winnipeg generated over 1500 new rental units, even with less economic growth. The argument that rent controls reduce incentives to create new rental units falls apart when you look at the numbers,” Forbes said.
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Read more... [NDP backs up rent control proposal with facts]
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4 February 2011
According to Statistics Canada, there are 30,700 people who were unemployed and looking for work in Saskatchewan last month, which is an increase of 3,600 over the last year. While the unemployment rate dropped in most provinces, Saskatchewan experienced the second sharpest unemployment rate increase in Canada, second only to Prince Edward Island.
“When seven other provinces are seeing their unemployment rates go down, it’s concerning that Saskatchewan’s unemployment rate is on its way up,” Cam Broten, the NDP critic for Advanced Education, Employment and Immigration, said. “This isn’t just about statistics, this affects real people and real families. Having 30,700 people classified as unemployed, which means they are actually looking for jobs but unable to find any, is not acceptable to Saskatchewan people.”
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Read more... [With 30,700 unemployed, Broten says job training programs should be reinstated]
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