The same mill rate can still send two different bills
The mill is one number. Assessment and the extra levies do the rest. Comparison charts usually skip that part.
Local government, outside the cities
If the tax bill, the school bus, and the drain don’t agree, that’s this site.
Written for people who have sat through a budget night and still gone home unsure which line on the bill actually moved. Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Towns and rural municipalities first. The cities only when they change something you live with.
Keep these handy
Four things worth knowing before the next envelope arrives
Your taxes and your kids’ bus are not on the same map
The RM line, the school division, and the clinic catchment were drawn by different hands. Say which one you’re arguing.
Don’t borrow next door’s election calendar
Three provinces, three statutes. Reeve or mayor, ward or at-large, and a by-election rule that changes at the border.
Most of the public record is still a PDF
Agendas with the attachments missing. Bylaws scanned crooked. A clerk who will email the schedule if you name the meeting date.
By province
Pick the ground you stand on
Manitoba
RMs, towns, villages, Northern Affairs, watershed districts. Civic election 28 October 2026.
Saskatchewan
Numbered RMs, towns, villages, resort villages. SARM country. Grid roads two offices both claim.
Alberta
Municipal districts, counties, special areas, summer villages. RMA and the irrigation map.
Each Monday
We pull the notices. We do not rewrite the newspaper.
Once a week this site checks the same places a reeve already watches: the three provincial newsrooms, AMM, SARM, RMA, Alberta Municipalities, and the CBC desks. Crime and hockey get dropped. What is left sits on this week, with the source still attached. If you live on the line and the notice is wrong, say so in talk.