{"id":643477,"date":"2026-05-02T17:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/643477\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T17:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:58:22","slug":"province-considers-new-cost-of-living-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/643477\/","title":{"rendered":"Province Considers New Cost-of-Living Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/pardy-to-board-of-trade.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Province Considers New Cost-of-Living Measures\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finance Minister Craig Pardy speaking to the Board of Trade (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The provincial government is considering introducing more affordability measures in the fall, but it all depends on oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Craig Pardy says there are two things that oil revenues would be used for: addressing the deficit and cost of living initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Pardy reveals that officials within his department are doing an analysis right now that will determine how much they could use for debt, and how much for affordability.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0says\u00a0everything hinges on oil staying above their forecasted price of $79 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p>On the cost of living piece, Pardy doesn\u2019t know what kind of relief they would implement, but doesn\u2019t rule out the possibility of sending out cheques.<\/p>\n<p>He says that could \u201cconceivably\u201d be an option\u201d but it all depends on oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Finance Minister Craig Pardy speaking to the Board of Trade (VOCM News) The provincial government is considering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-643477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}