Calgary city council 2026 budget passes, approves 1.64% property tax increase | Unpublished
Hello!
Source Feed: Global News - Canada
Author: Adam MacVicar
Publication Date: December 4, 2025 - 09:54

Stay informed

Calgary city council 2026 budget passes, approves 1.64% property tax increase

December 4, 2025
Calgary city council voted in favour of a 1.64 per cent property tax increase, which is anticipated to cost the typical homeowner an additional $4.50 monthly.


Unpublished Newswire

 
A Canadian man accused of heading a multi-billion-dollar global drug syndicate has been sentenced to 16 years in prison in Australia after three years of secret, closed court hearings. Tse Chi Lop, formerly of Toronto, was accused of being one of world’s biggest drug kingpins and called “Asia’s El Chapo” when a deluge of meth was flowing across the Asia-Pacific region. A global manhunt for the Chinese-born Canadian citizen ended when he was arrested at an airport in Amsterdam in 2021 as he tried to fly back to Canada. His extradition to face trial in Australia required a guarantee...
December 4, 2025 - 09:55 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
I’m currently revisiting Seinfeld with my youngest son. I haven’t watched the sitcom in decades. I am surprised at how genuinely funny it remains and how badly some of the core premises have aged. Case in point: the non-fat yogurt episode from season five. The entire segment, which aired in 1993, hinges on the idea that this kind of food is a disastrous dietary choice and consuming it will make you “fat” (lots of weight gags throughout). The fat-is-evil theme is taken as a truism. As Jerry exclaims to a neighbour in the final scene (spoiler alert!), the yogurt actually had fat in it! “It...
December 4, 2025 - 09:31 | Timothy Caulfield | Walrus
Power Trip In “Canada Needs a Foreign Spy Agency,” Wesley Wark cautions us that when we imagine foreign intelligence agents, we shouldn’t picture Jason Bourne or James Bond. I concur, but we need not look so far from home for inspiration for what Wark has in mind. Some of the cruelest, most scientifically useless forms of abuse perpetrated under MKUltra occurred on Canadian soil. At McGill University, agents drugged civilians with hallucinogenic and narcotic drugs in the pursuit of novel forms of torture and interrogation. Maybe, instead, we should take as our example the Central...
December 4, 2025 - 09:30 | Readers | Walrus