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Monday Jan 4 | Vancouver Sun

Lower Mainland real estate was heating up across the board in November. Photograph by: Glenn Baglo, Vancouver Sun files The 2009 property assessments - the values on which British Columbians' 2010 municipal tax bills will be based - are on the web and in the mail.

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Sat Jan 02, 2010

The Globe and Mail

Forest companies gain legal traction for tax revolt

A brewing tax revolt by B.C. forestry companies has gained a legal foothold after the B.C. Supreme Court found a Vancouver Island community cannot boost its tax rate for forest lands.

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Tue Dec 29, 2009

Vancouver Sun

Roll back city staff wages to cope with tax fight: Port Alberni councillor

A Port Alberni city councillor wants to roll back municipal wages and hike taxes to compensate for $3.3 million it is owed by Catalyst Paper.

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Thu Dec 24, 2009

CBC

B.C. pulp mill to resume paying local taxes

The Zellstoff Celgar pulp mill says it has decided to start paying its municipal taxes again after improved dialogue with city officials.

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Tue Dec 22, 2009

CBC

BC Hydro stiffens security for Olympics

Providing extra security for power facilities is the cost of doing business during events such as the 2010 Winter Olympics, BC Hydro says.

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Fri Dec 18, 2009

Leader Post

B.C.'s military history mystery

Castlegar museum director Debbie McIntosh ponders a mysterious collection of war memorabilia from the Arrow Lakes.

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Tue Dec 15, 2009

Irish Emigrant

GAA celebrations in Canada

A Mass will be celebrated in St Mary's Church in Cranbrook, British Columbia at 11.00am on Saturday, December 19 to remember GAA Founder Joseph P. Ryan.

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Sun Dec 13, 2009

The Globe and Mail

B.C. rejects plea to aid municipalities in tax dispute

B.C. rejects plea to aid municipalities in tax dispute It's up to local politicians to ensure property taxes don't scare away businesses and kill jobs, Finance Minister says Patrick Brethour Vancouver - From Monday's Globe and Mail Published on Sunday, Dec.

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Tue Dec 08, 2009

CBC

Feds give B.C. mill millions despite unpaid taxes

Two B.C. pulp mills say their municipal taxes are too high and they plan to fight them in court.

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Fri Dec 04, 2009

The Victoria Star

B.C. towns suffer as major pulp and paper companies refuse to pay taxes

When a water pipe bursts these days in a British Columbia pulp and paper town, residents better dig out their rain boots.

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Tue Dec 01, 2009

The Globe and Mail

Kootenays elementary schools to close

Raymond Masleck Trail, B.C. - Published on Monday, Nov. 30, 2009 4:19PM EST Last updated on Monday, Nov.

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Wed Nov 25, 2009

North Island Midweek

Brucie reminiscences about his - frigid' years

It's been raining so long and so hard up here the ducks have galoshes and the fish use umbrellas! I'm only slightly exaggerating.

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Mon Nov 23, 2009

Water Online

Genomics To Provide More Effective Treatment Options For Mining...

Companies that are faced with the challenge of cleaning up toxic wastewater from mining operations will soon have more reliable bioremediation options.

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Sat Nov 21, 2009

Lake Cowichan Gazette

Man killed on Highway 3A near Thrums

On Friday Nov. 20, at a approximately 3:15 p.m., a pedestrian was struck and killed by a tractor trailer headed west on Highway 3A near Thrums.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

Lake Cowichan Gazette

Health survey sent

How do you get to your health care appointments, including emergencies? Thanks to funding from Area I, thata s the question Castlegar & District Health Watch Society intends to ask in a survey which will be mailed out to every household in Castlegar, and Areas I and J in the second week of November.

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Tue Nov 17, 2009

Arrow Lakes News

Weatherhead honoured as founder of Selkirk College

An event named Foundersa Day was held in mid-October by Selkirk College to honour the nearly 40 personnel who laid the ground work to get the college off the ground.

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Sat Nov 14, 2009

Lake Cowichan Gazette

Mentoring program

Peer Mentoring Groups to help entrepreneurial women in the Kootenays to succeed in business are being launched in Nelson and Castlegar this month by Women's Enterprise Centre.

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Thu Nov 12, 2009

Lake Cowichan Gazette

High-risk flu shot clinic announced for Castlegar and Trail

The IHA has scheduled a flu-shot clinic for those at high-risk of infection for Friday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Canada, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Influenza,

Wed Nov 11, 2009

The Province

History mystery solved for Battle of Britain veteran

A wide Remembrance Day smile sweeps across Stanley Jenson's face as he puts on his RCAF flight officer's dress tunic for the first time since 1962.

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Mon Nov 09, 2009

Invermere Valley Echo

I am Kootenay Woman, hear me roar

Kootenay Woman is a new publication being published by Black Press. It is about women and for women.

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