A big meeting was held last night, and now this morning, schools in the city say they’ll raise taxes by 2 per cent. That means an approximate 25 dollar per year boost on a home that’s worth around 100 grand.
Some teens in Selkirk say the town is turning into “Sel-crack” these days. They say police need to do more to crack down on dealers and drug houses. But cops in the area say they haven’t seen a spike in drug crimes, and say youth who see things going on in the streets are just not reporting it.
Heck of a storm out in the Maritimes yesterday. In fact, nearly a month’s worth of snow fell in the Fredericton area in just a few hours. The weather office says yesterday’s 40 centimeter dump was a “mega bomb”….which is an extreme weather system caused by an intense period of low pressure.
A crab fisherman from Newfoundland and his son in law, have finally landed the big one….12.5 million big ones, to be exact ! Earle Smith and his son in law, Deon, are the first to collect their share of the 50 million dollar jackpot from this past weekend’s 6/49 draw. 3 other winning tickets are still out there….2 more in Ontario, and one in Quebec.
Well he certainly hasn’t been getting the rock star treatment that President Obama got during his first official visit to Canada last week. But, Prime Minister Harper is waving the Canadian flag all over New York anyway, trying to build on the cross border goodwill generated by the President’s visit.
There may be recovery plans in place all over the world, but, the markets sure don’t know it. Fears about the global recession and the world economy continue to push markets down. Yesterday, Toronto’s TSX plunged 302 points to its lowest level since October of 2003. And in New York, the Dow plunged 251 points to 1997 levels. The same kind of drops were also seen over seas.
