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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!

You can thank your provincial ndp for a good chunk of this one...and the raises still to come.

Form the article:

Some homeowners are paying more than 50 per cent over last year, largely because the city collects taxes on behalf of the Alberta government.

“We have to pass it on to tax payers, so the provincial portion of your property tax bill is going up 10 per cent. The municipal portion is only going up by three-and- a-half per cent,” Ward 10 councillor Andre Chabot said.