What a mill rate is, and why the same mill still sends two different bills
The mill is only one blade. Assessment and the extra levies do the rest of the cutting.
Notes
Read these before the next envelope.
These stay up while they are still true. When a mill or a map changes, the note gets rewritten. The weekly notices live under This week.
Two maps that refuse to sit on top of each other
Municipal line, school line, health line. You live in all three. They were not drawn by the same hand.
Three Prairie ways of calling a municipal election
Do not borrow next door’s calendar. The year, the office, and the by-election rule all change at the provincial line.
The public record that still lives on the clerk’s desk
Open government on the Prairies is often a scanned agenda and a person who answers the phone on Tuesday.