Power bills are going up — and this housing advocate says people living on the financial edge will feel itNewsDuration 0:39While the provincial government announced tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to keep electricity bills from skyrocketing, customers could be paying 10 per cent more come Canada Day. Dan Meades, co-ordinator of transition houses in Newfoundland and Labrador, says for some already in poverty, there is no extra funding to cover that increase.