April 20, 2022 at 1:23 pm
CBRM council met on Tuesday to hash out details of its 5%, across-the-board tax cut but before they got into it, District 8 Councilor James Edwards moved that the cut be phased in over three years rather than introduced in one fell swoop. This led to a reprise of muchRead More
April 13, 2022 at 12:25 pm
CBRM council voted on a 5%, across-the-board — residential and commercial — property tax cut this week. I think this chart, from the province’s Open Data portal, helps provide some perspective on this. It shows average Nova Scotia municipal residential property tax rates from 2009/10 to 2020/21. (It’s interactive, youRead More
April 13, 2022 at 12:23 pm
When we left off, CBRM District 8 Councilor James Edwards (who, as noted in Part I of this article on the CBRM tax cut, is a former Canada Revenue employee), was agreeing that he too, would like to pay less tax, but arguing that to be “fiscally responsible,” any reductionRead More
January 5, 2022 at 12:19 pm
Let’s play a game. I’ll give you some quotes from two articles about CBRM District 10 Councilor Darren Bruckschwaiger and you tell me which are from September 2014 and which from December 2021: Quote No. 1 “I love the job but there comes a time in anybody’s career when it’sRead More
February 10, 2021 at 12:53 pm
Yesterday’s CBRM council meeting was a relatively short (just under an hour) and swiftly moving affair. The agenda contained just six items, the first three of which were approval of minutes, approval of agenda and proclamations (CBRM will mark White Cane Week from February 7 to 13). So I willRead More