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Homeowners get 2.47 per cent tax increase

Burnaby council approved a 2.47 per cent residential property tax hike at Monday night's meeting when the annual financial plan was presented.

TransLink task huge for winning party

NO matter which party seizes the legislature on May 14, its MLAs are going to be greeted with the gargantuan task of reforming TransLink.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to Gordy Robinson for his column on property tax being almost the sole source of revenue for Maple Ridge [Time to revamp archaic bylaws, May 7 Just Saying, TIMES]. It seems like a small, vocal group keeps Maple Ridge in the dark ages.

WEST VANCOUVER-SEA TO SKY

Here is the last of our election grid question and answers. Candidates were limited in their responses by a word count.

Time to revamp archiac bylaws

My column last week hit a nerve. I am obviously not a good shot, because it was not the nerve I intended to hit.

Tax relief possible

Consulting company, G.P. Rollo & Associates (GPRA) was contracted by the City of Pitt Meadows to conduct an assessment of the City’s commercial development potential,.

Disheartened by numbers to vote

During the HST rebellion, almost half of the people who voted realized that, although they hate taxation, harmonizing the PST and GST was definitely the most efficient and fair way to collect tax, but the rebellion won.

City growth brings tax relief

A new report shows how Pitt Meadows residents can receive tax relief by enticing more commercial and industrial development. A presentation at a recent Pitt Meadows council meeting outlined the impact of development on future property taxes, said Mayor Deb Walters.

Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Mary Polak

Politicians mark completion of Delta Landfill Renewal Project

Two provincial cabinet ministers were at a River Road business Wednesday to celebrate the completion of a major environmental clean-up project.

Low tax rate adding to city's strain

In the world of politics, nothing turns off voters like the notion of raising taxes.

Much still up in the air four years after treaty

So what will it be ... laudable success or abject failure?

TransLink should fund transit, not pay property taxes

I'm writing this in response to your March 20 story, TransLink Appeals SeaBus Assessment.

Port Metro has editor all riled up

First full disclosure: I have a personal financial interest in properties impacted by Port Metro Vancouver's waterlot lease strategy. Second full disclosure: I have a deep-seated aversion to mega-bureaucracies that willfully, or unwittingly, crush struggling hard-working small business people.