In the news today, April 1
Six stories in the news for Monday, April 1
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FEDERAL CARBON TAX STARTS TODAY IN FOUR PROVINCES
Starting today people in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick will pay a little more for gasoline, heating fuel and some other items. Ottawa’s carbon tax is kicking in for provinces that refused to impose their own carbon pricing system. The tax adds 4.4 cents to the price of a litre of gasoline and about four cents to a cubic metre of natural gas. It also drives up the cost of propane, butane, aviation fuel and other goods, and is set to increase every year until 2022. But the federal government is also instituting tax rebates that it says will give people back the extra money they’re paying out.