Four-year city budget OK'd with 4.4% property tax hike
Calgary city council passed its 2023-26 budget on Friday, which includes a 4.4 per cent residential tax increase proposed by administration.
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Calgary city council passed its 2023-26 budget on Friday, which includes a 4.4 per cent residential tax increase proposed by administration.
Near the end of September, a series of videos were posted to social media that purported to show some familiar figures in Calgary’s political and legal worlds taking turns performing racist Indigenous caricatures. They would later claim those videos were fake. Experts say claims of falsity in situations like this are hard to prove because the technology is debatable, even unreliable — and hints at a more significant problem to come.
The City of Calgary says an informal process was used to deal with the matter of Coun. Sean Chu taking photos of the mayor’s licence plate.
Following a call from a senior naval officer to Mayor Jyoti Gondek, city council voted to remove Coun. Sean Chu from a committee that links the city with HMCS Calgary.
The Alberta New Democratic Party has cut ties with its candidate in the riding of Calgary-Klein over a series of tweets.