Alberta Budget, Push back on Hospital, 4 astronauts from India and "The Wedding of India"

Hello Friend, I am sure you are keeping yourself warm and cozy. What a snow dump we saw. It certainly felt cold. 🥶

This week, we hoped to send 2 of our readers to have dinner at Chatkazz restaurant, but you know what, they fell short of referring 5 people. We got tied with 2 readers reaching 4 each.

So we are going to extend this for another week and see if you can reach that milestone. The referral bonus continues. What are you waiting for?

This Week’s:

• ⚡️ Own an EV? Get ready for the tax.

• 💰 A look at Alberta’s budget and UCP’s broken promises

• 😡 More wait for the South Edmonton Hospital

• 🧑🏼‍🚀 India reveals 4 astronauts for the Gaganyaan mission

• 💸 Let’s talk about how money works.

Let’s get in there.

🫣 In Major News 

• UCP presented their budget and things are not looking great as we all hoped for or should I say promised? CBC wrote this great article with all the summaries that you and everyone need to know, in digestible language. (Read more here)

• The biggest talking point out of this budget was taxes on those who have EVs. Own an EV? Ready to pay $200 next time you go for a vehicle registration. (Read more here)

🗞️ Local News

• More wait for the South Edmonton Hospital. I live in South Edmonton just like many of our readers who are eagerly waiting for the new Hospital to be ready by 2030 in Heritage Valley. UCP is taking a step back and pausing the funding for that Hospital and moving that fund to build Stollery Children's Hospital. So now it will be even further in the future before we can see a new hospital. (Read more here)

• On the other hand, UCP is promising to fund 10 new schools in ‘Alberta‘. Well, that’s not enough of knowing the struggle that new immigrant parents have to go through. (Read more here)

🇮🇳 News from India

• Well, the talk of the nation is the Pre-Wedding function of the Ambani dynasty’s son. From Local artists to international, from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerburg all are getting welcomed by our tradition ‘Athithi Devo Bhava‘. Surprisingly, the wedding is set to happen in July this year, and this is just a pre-wedding. Rumours are they will tie to knot with close family & friends and probably private wedding.

• In other interesting and proud news for every Indian, ISRO reveals 4 astronauts for its Gaganyaan space mission later this year. (Read more here)

🎥 What to watch this weekend

• The Walking Dead universe brings back Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. The first episode is out on AMC+.

• I haven't watched this one yet, but heard some good reviews about it. Poacher available on Amazon Prime is an Indian Malayalam-language crime drama television miniseries.

• Did you see this funny video collab on Bill Gates and Dolly Chaiwala? I guess MBA Chaiwala has serious competition. It’s breaking the ‘gram with meme.

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