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Property taxes: are major industries suffering?
Businesses across Canada have been complaining about what they pay in property taxes, well, since there were property taxes. But the issue in BC came…
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Where’s Our Danny Boy (2)? Mayor of embattled town weighs in on needed forest reforms
Few British Columbia communities have been hit as hard by the forest industry crisis as Mackenzie. Some 1,500 jobs, by mayor Stephanie Killam’s estimate, have…
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Happy April fools day. Welcome TILMA
As of April 1st, the people elected to run our municipalities and school boards had better think twice before they make a decision that might…
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Food as a right of citizenship
I came across an interesting piece in YES! Magazine about a city in Brazil that took an innovative approach to poverty reduction and practically ended…
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Beggar-thy-neighbour politics in Metro Vancouver
Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts made the news this week calling for property-tax-free zones in Surrey to attract new business to her city. Of course, in…
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