News 1. Is a “climate action tax” different from any other tax? Halifax has a climate action plan that Zane Woodford has previously described as “woefully underfunded.” Council is thinking of changing that, by earmarking a special tax of 0.023 cents on every $100 of taxable assessed residential property value for climate-related capital projects. But, […]
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Morning File, Wednesday, September 23, 2020
News 1. The Nova Scotia mass murderer may have done a dry run Tim Bousquet reports on revelations from court documents that the man behind the April 18-19 murders, who the Examiner calls GW, may have visited several key locations before the killings. In partially redacted court documents, GW’s common-law spouse says the pair “drove […]