Ontario cities have taken advantage of high demand to rack up development charges to artificially lower property taxes. Now our federal tax dollars will pay them to reduce those fees, while cities with no/few development charges like Winnipeg and Edmonton get no help.
Brent Bellamy
I'm really enjoying the progressive local politician antipathy towards vacant lots that seems to be more prominent lately
“Kelowna’s policing costs have risen 66 per cent between 2020 and 2024. The 2026 city budget has the cost of police services and RCMP at $83.2 million.”
“Kelowna is also paying 20 per cent more per officer, but getting worse service coverage than other cities”
Deeply troubling.
I hope councillors look into why Ellis is not being considered as a 2+2 ROW downtown, with the BRT (perhaps being in mixed traffic?) being shunted to St Paul.
A lot of concerns that KACC raised in 2025 unfortunately did not result in any changes to the proposal.
