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Local governments are working to support their residents during COVID-19. Designed to provide relief to eligible taxpayers, property tax deferrals allow taxpayers to defer some or all of property taxes for a specified period.
  • Economic development
  • Municipal finance
News release
The Globe and Mail reports on the First-100-Days roadmap FCM has set out for the new government.
  • Municipal finance
  • Infrastructure
News release
La Presse publishes a report on FCM’s recommendations for our new government’s first 100 days in office.
  • Infrastructure
  • Municipal finance
News release
Bill Karsten, president of FCM, issued the following statement welcoming the new federal government.
  • Public transit
  • Municipal finance
  • Infrastructure
News release
FCM released its Election 2019 recommendations to federal parties today. The platform is a call to improve Canadians’ quality of life by empowering the local governments closest to their daily challenges
  • Municipal finance
  • Infrastructure
Report
This report makes the case for why the federal Gas Tax Fund is the best fiscal tool available to local governments and why it must be expanded to help build better lives for Canadians.
  • Infrastructure
  • Municipal finance
News release
Municipal leaders respond with concern to news from Canada’s largest telecommunications companies that they intend to reduce or review the number of rural households that will receive improved broadband connectivity, following a recent CRTC decision.
  • Northern and remote communities
  • Rural communities
  • Telecommunications
To cut its dependence on diesel-generated electricity, the lakeside northern community of Whati studied construction of a hydroelectric system powered by running water from the nearby La Martre River Falls, which flow out of Lac Le Martre.
  • Energy
  • Northern and remote communities
  • Sustainability
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