The Moose Jaw Police Service attended Tuesday afternoon’s special Council meeting bringing a bevy of facts that yes Dorothy and Toto the Friendly City you grew up to love and admire just isn’t here anymore.
To combat the crime problem they are seeking a 5.49 percent increase in their 2023 budget after receiving a similar 5.58 percent in 2022 versus 2021.
It works out to a 1.84 percent increase in the municipal mill rate.
Read MoreA man who plead guilty to serious narcotics and weapons charges but was released until sentencing to temporary house arrest almost two years ago has been located in Edmonton.
Read MoreThe City is planning to start removing the snow windrows from select streets starting at 10 pm Sunday evening.
Read MoreIt may have gone underground after bubbling up in public at a Moose Jaw Chamber of Commerce’s meeting and at a mid-September regular Council meeting but the fight against what smaller business property owners see as the lack of fairness and inequities in the assessment properties continues to boil behind the scenes.
We get comment from all parties involved as business owners frustrated in their battle “against injustice” continue with their fight.
They are now calling for the City and Council to step in and cut ties with the Saskatchewan Assessment Management Agency when their contract expires in 2025 and go to in-house assessors.
They hope it creates an environment where they say common sense can return to the system.
Read MoreThe local Royal Canadian Legion Branch 59 Moose Jaw is hosting the Remembrance Day ceremonies this year - following the COVID - 19 pandemic restrictions - at the Moose Jaw Event Centre (former Mosaic Place) and the community and surrounding areas are invited to attend.
Read MoreA Freedom Of Information request - looking for files from a 1992 - 1993 review of the 1986 sudden death of a former Moose Jaw resident’s mother - has the Moose Jaw Police Service (MJPS) being provided some recommendations from the Office of Information and Privacy Commissioner after a review of the access request.
Ironically the Applicant told MJ Independent in an interview over three years ago she and other family members had spent over three decades trying to get full answers from the MJPS.
With the news the Province is going to start mailing out those $500 Saskatchewan Affordability Tax Credit Cheques starting November 14th might give you warm thoughts on a cold and snowy day.
Read MoreThe recent heavy snowfall and a broken bucket truck are the reasons given why the City's Christmas lights were just turned off today until after Remembrance Day.
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