APD Still Costs More While the last administration left office without any idea how the City of Abbotsford was going to pay the $5 million promised to the Calgary Flames…
By Adrian Spitters and Win Wachsmann. Blah! Blah! Blah! Is that how you sometimes feel when you hear Investment Advisors, Financial Planners, Insurance Brokers, Realtors, Accountants, Lawyers, Estate Planners, and…
Everyone seems to have a hate/love relationship with them. By Adrian Spitters and Win Wachsmann. We hate paying them. We love it when others are paying them. Thus THEY get…
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) has crunched the numbers and despite the federal government’s announcement that it’s freezing Employment Insurance taxes for three years, many Canadians’ paycheques will be getting…
By Mike Archer. Every year at this time a great deal is made of the fact that, if you take the taxes we pay and cram them all into the…
By Mike Archer. While listening to Rick Cluff’s Early Edition on CBC Radio Wednesday morning I heard Vancouver Councillor Raymond Louie vigourously defend the City of Vancouver’s spending as if…
By Mike Archer. Abbotsford’s power structure and its newspapers have not had a very good batting average over the last several years if you look at the issues they defined…
Dear Editor. It is a breath of fresh air in the stagnant Abbotsford political air to be able to read, the different views of Walter Neufeld, Councillor Loewen and Abbotsford…
UPDATED – Today columnist Walter Neufeld responded to Abbotsford Councillor Dave Loewen’s claims about Abbotsford taxes in what has become an ongoing debate. Councillor Dave Loewen has made a rather…
Councillor Dave Loewen has made a rather public and rather determined fuss about the figures quoted in Today columnist Walter Neufeld’s piece on Abbotsford’s high taxes. Neufeld’s break down of…