The way commercial properties are assessed and then taxed since the 2021 reassessment had a well known long-time business owner telling Council what he saw as the inequities in the system.
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Environment Canada has issued a Frost Advisory for Moose Jaw and surrounding areas.
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It may be a hiccup or a start of a trend but the unemployment rate is up slightly nationally, provincially and locally according to Statistics Canada’s seasonally unadjusted August 2022 report.
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A Labour Day tradition that went into hiatus for three years because of the COVID - 19 pandemic returned serving hundreds of people to commemorate workers and unions both past, present and future for the contributions they have made to society.
It’s an event the Moose Jaw and District Labour Council is happy to bring back to the community.
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A popular jogging stroller has been recalled in both Canada and the United States as it poses a fingertip amputation hazard to children.
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After three years of not being held due to the COVID - 19 pandemic the Moose Jaw and District’s annual FREE barbecue is being held tomorrow.
The event is FREE and open to everyone to attend and features hamburgers, hot dogs and refreshments.
Moose Jaw Union Centre 1402 Caribou Street West from 11:30 to 2 pm.
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A harm reduction initiative that would see a vending machine issue supplies and allow the exchange of needles in the parking lot of the Palliser Regional Library has run into area opposition to the initiative.
We take a look at the issue.
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At the present time SaskPower is building a 360 Megawatt (MW) - the Great Plains Power Station - in Moose Jaw’s Agri-Food Industrial Park.
But what did it take to get the project envisioned by SaskPower in 2014 into actual construction in Moose Jaw?
To find out MJ Independent submitted an FOI and after a lot of hard work received hundreds of pages of documents - many of them marked confidential and never publicly released - to get the story from the inside.
In part one we look at how the City of Moose Jaw was able to get the then proposed industrial park on SaskPower’s radar and then to set the hook.
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