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Despite opposition from some councillors, Cape Breton Regional Municipality has eliminated a property tax levy that paid for sewer services and has instituted user fees instead. Some say that means owners of high-value properties will no longer subsidize the cost for those with lower assessments.
It s been nearly three weeks since a fire at a Sydney apartment killed a Cape Breton University student from India and left seven others with no place to live. Now, two of those displaced students are still living in a Sydney hotel.
When a fire broke out at a duplex on Park Street in Sydney, N.S., Saturday afternoon, an international student from India who was inside lost his life.