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  Know as the ice fishing capital of the world Lake Simcoe's shore line in Georgina is just a short 25 minutes from downtown Uxbridge. This years series of 4 Fishing Derbys will see a grand total of $60,000.00 in prize money to be hooked by some skilled or just plain lucky anglers. Back again for...

You and "YOUR" Property Tax Bill - The 2010 draft budget goes before council today   Today is the day Council looks at the 2010 draft budget to be presented by the finance committee. It will be presented to council at their meeting this afternoon. Over the years Uxbridge has held a fairly tight r...

You and "YOUR" Property Tax Bill   Your Assessment Notice May Have been In The Mail Back in November of last year the Municipal Property Assessment Corp (MPAC) began sending out assessment notices for the 2010 property tax year. If you received one then there has been a change in the assessment o...

Should Municipal Government Be Scrapped In a recent Article in a Local Paper one Georgina resident is asking the town to help eliminate the nine municipal governments within York Region. He is asking the town to eliminate itself or at least study the possibility. He seems to think that it would s...

  While some ponder over the meaning of a blue moon, others make resoloutions, and still others work on plans for the new year, but as T.S.Eliot says "to make an end is to make a beggining". To get on with the new we have to get rid of the old.   "What can be said in New Year rhymes,That's not be...

The Shift - Social Networking One of the biggest shifts in a real estate practitioners business life cycle is under way right now and has been for some time. The advent of the internet brought about a shift in how the business of real estate is conducted and many failed to grasp how big a shift i...

  This is just one of the many ways that your neighbourhood REALTOR® gives back to the community at large   Realtors Care Foundation provides support for shelter related charities.  The Realtors Care Foundation supports many different shelter based organizations throughoutut the province from foo...

  Is Your Hydro Supplier Switching To Time Of Use Charges? - Will It Cost You More Or Less? Over the last year we have used on average 40 kWh per day. On a 30 day month that is 1,200 kWh. Our service provider, Hydro One, charges us .058 per kWh for the first 1,000 kWh and .067 for the balance mak...

  Experience the Joy of that First Christmas I invite you to join me as we witness the wonder of that very first Christmas.  We will be sitting on the bleachers surrounding the park, but we could just as easily be overlooking the town of Bethlehem.  Peeking in, we follow Joseph leading the donkey...

In an earlier post You and "YOUR" Property Tax Bill -- Is Current Value Assessment (CVA) A Better Way?  I looked at our current assessment system and the unfairness of it for many taxpayers. Today's example looks at the Durham Region Portion of Your Tax Bill from the point of view taken by some w...