Garbage and organics discussions make its way back to council chambers today (mon). Council is set to make decisions that could see different cart sizes and whether or not a new curbside organics program will be funded through property taxes or a waste utility fee. Originally, city administration recommended fees to cover the costs of waste and organics collection instead of paying for the services through property taxes. Going this route would reduce property taxes by 3.5 per cent but would add user fees. Last month, City Council approved a city-wide curbside organics program for single-family homes. Today’s meeting starts at 1 p.m. at City Hall.
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The Candian government wants the country’s banks to identify, in customers’ bank statements when they receive the carbon rebate, that it is labelled as such.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the lack of a clear identifier is contributing to confusion about carbon price rebates, so he is going to change the law if he has to in order to force the big banks to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits.
The first rebate deposits in 2022 were labelled very generically, which meant recipients had no idea why they were getting the money.
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