• Belleville reviewing proposed development charges: Mayor Ellis

    Belleville reviewing proposed development charges: Mayor Ellis
    At the July 27 city council meeting, city leaders heard strong concerns from the Belleville Chamber of Commerce and members of the local business and industrial community regarding proposed changes to industrial development charges.The Development Charges Study is a legislated process used to calculate the costs that may be recovered to support infrastructure required as the community grows.While the study proposes lower residential development charges, it also calculates non-residential develo
  • Quinte businesses, workers, brace for fallout of U.S.-Canada trade war

    Quinte businesses, workers, brace for fallout of U.S.-Canada trade war
    Quinte business and government leaders say a $7.5 billion suite of new relief measures announced Tuesday by the federal government to stave off American tariff impacts may go a long way to helping the region’s corporate and medium- and small-business owners and their workers.The United States triggered 50 per cent tariffs on $27.6 billion of Canadian goods as of Aug. 22.Included in the federal relief package is a $1.5 billion “investment through the Regional Tariff Response Initiati

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