Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: [unknown]
issued: 2024-05-03
issued: 1993-01-28
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note: TAXPAYERS ORGANIZE Protestors plan new strategies CALGARY - Hundreds of taxpayer activists from across the country, concerned about rising taxes, public debt and runaway government spending, metfihere last weekend to promote fiscal responsibility and non-partisan political reform. In a precedent setting move, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation organized the country's first ever Canadian Taxpayers Conference, a forum in\which taxpayers met not only to exchange ideas and information, but to develop plans for action. . "People are tired of waiting for change to take place, and are looking for ways to take matters into their own hands," said federation spokesperson Kevin Avram. Conference organizers intend to activaBSflocal ratepayer groups and to provide them with the knowledge of how to initiate citizen-based reforms such as direct democracy and how to bring about reform at -all levels of government. "The future of this country NDP try damage control on tax VICTORIA - The New Democratic government has tried to allay property owners' fears of a huge tax increase this ye&f, but they failed to mak«£the assurance demanded by Social Credit leader Jack Weisgerber. The BC Assessment Authority has mailed out 1.4-million property assessments, to every property owner in the province, showing increases averaging 40 percent. Municipal affairs minister Robin Blencoe later issued a statement that "rising assessments do not automatically mean rising taxes and B.C. property owners' rights to appeal assessments have not been eroded." But a spokesman for the finance ministry said the government had to consider the "difficult economic times, which made some tax increases necessary," though not necessarily on property. Weisgerber said the NDP needed to commit itself to lowering the tax rate on its portion of the property tax to counterbalance the rise in assessment values. "If they don't it will mean increases in the property tax of $264 to $642 for homeowners around the province," he sai…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1964-12-23), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Rudy Langmann, April 9, 2003. Issue misnumbered as 13, should be 12.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0442191
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: [place of publication unknown] : [publisher not identified]
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
type: Text