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The city has recently sent out a letter stating they now require all rental properties to obtain a business license at a cost of $150. This is a taxation increase without merit and is inherently unfair.

"I'm not trying to minimize the fact that there is a rate increase," Energy Minister Bill Bennett said Tuesday, midway through a news conference partly designed to minimize the upcoming rate increases.

Thank you Car 54. On the night of Nov. 17 a yellow cab driver was helping a neighbour clean the snow from her driveway and slipped on the ice and broke his hip. Now here is a Prince George hero. He is 80 years old and is recovering in the hospital.

Well it's that time of year at universities. We have had 13 weeks of semester and final exams will start next week. It seems impossible to me that the semester is almost over as it has just flown by.

With reference to genetically modified foods, do we really need seedless grapes and seedless watermelons? Where will it all end? Seedless sunflowers, seedless tomatoes, and seedless pomegranates? Heaven forbid. Mr. Harry Yates Prince George

I wish to take issue with the column written by Gord Stewart and published in The Citizen Nov. 21. Mr.

Being born in Tacloban, I haven't contact my brother since the typhoon on Nov. 6 due to the devastation. I tried to phone him, but no available communication.

We have had a long succession of tax-and-spend city councils that seem addicted to large, expensive building projects, the latest being the RCMP building, which has still to be paid for.

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