If Jean Carroll’s rent keeps going up, she said she’ll be forced to move in with her kids.

“People can’t afford it,” she said. “We’re all going to be living in the park pretty soon if this is the way they’re going to run the province. We need some action.”

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Carroll and several other seniors stood alongside the Saskatchewan NDP on Monday, calling for the government to implement rent control measures. The NDP plans to introducing a private member’s bill that would lay out the blueprints for rent control during this fall’s legislative sitting.

April ChiefCalf, the NDP’s housing critic, said there a

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