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The Thunder Bay 55 Plus Centre’s Snow Angels program currently has 40 active volunteers set to go for the upcoming winter, but there are still 100 people on a waiting list.

City council has adopted the recommendation of administration when it comes to the Tax Policy Report. Director of Revenue for the city, Kathleen Cannon and her team made the push ahead of Monday’s council meeting to go with the first choice, which she said is more in line with the long term tax strategy ratified by council in 2019. The strategy looked at reducing tax ratios for multi-residential, commercial and large industrial classes, while enhancing long term financial stability in effort to achieve greater fairness and relative competitiveness overall. Cannon noted for 2021, the Municip...

The levy for the Thunder Bay District Social Services Administration Board is $167,800 lower than expected Council reduced the hit to the stabilization reserve fund by $1,534,200 to fund the $8.7 million COVID impact (that includes recognizing $1.24 million in 2021 Safe Restart funding) Insurance costs are $234,400 less than estimated $138,400 increase for Canada Pension Plan/Employment Insurance costs $149,400 in reduced debenture interest, MPAC levy, Community Youth & Culture Funding Program ongoing $30,000 removed for Victoriaville budget for duct cleaning $15,000 addition to each organiza...

The final night of public deputations led to one councillor being ruled out of order. Council received feedback on the budget Thursday, but it was the first one from Henry Wojack that gave way to chair Mark Bentz putting his foot down with fellow At Large Councillor Aldo Ruberto. Wojack’s presentation focused on a few topics, which included reducing the municipal tax levy increase by 0.65%. He also wanted to discuss the Police Services Board which gave way to Aldo Ruberto to asking whether Wojack had done research on the number of incidents that local police deal with as compared to municip...

Thunder Bay, ON, Canada / Country 105 | Thunder Bay's Country Feb 2, 2021 8:31 PM Council gave the thumbs up to the 2021 operating and capital budgets, which features a municipal tax levy below two per cent. Following Tuesday’s final session before pre-budget public deputations on Thursday night, the levy is at 1.83% before growth and 1.60% after growth. The elected body did vote in favour of a few savings that totaled $548,100, which included post-poning the opening of cashier counter service and the replacement of a generator for fire station #3. Among the increases council approved inclu...