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Finance committee recommends maintaining property tax ratio
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Finance committee recommends maintaining property tax ratio
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The Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce is asking the City of Saskatoon to extend a property tax and utility payment deferral program that ended in September.
A letter written by Chamber CEO Jason Aebig was presented to the city’s finance committee Tuesday.
In it, Aebig says while many businesses have demonstrated incredible resilience, creativity and capacity to adapt, many local hotels haven’t been able to shift their business models.
Speaking with 650 CKOM, he says downtown hotels in particular have reached a point where occupancy is in the single digits.
“(And) that’s not surprising given the COVID restrictions on gatherings and of course ongoing warnings about travel, interprovincial travel, and even travel within the province,” Aebig said.
Opinion: The urgent need for widespread rapid testing Special to National Post © Provided by National Post A medical worker performs a COVID-19 swab test upon a woman at a rapid-testing station at the Panagia Evangelistria Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus capital Nicosia on Jan. 29.
The following open letter arguing for the adoption of widespread rapid testing in Canada was signed by 28 members of the medical and business communities. As the second wave of the pandemic continues, infection rates and hospitalizations are rising in many parts of Canada. Both lives and livelihoods are tragically being lost each day. In a response that was previously unimaginable, many Canadians were prohibited from gathering to see friends and family over the holidays, and many businesses are again forced to close in an effort to stop the spread of the virus. In Quebec, a curfew has been put in place for the first time and Ontario has now implemented an unprecedented general
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