Posted on 9/25/2015 by Pete McIntyre
B.C.'s municipal leaders want the province to take a closer look at the so called "rape culture" in society.Vernon Mayor Akbal Mund says the resolution from Northern Municipalities passed at the Union of BC Municipalities conference in Vancouver, and next goes to the B.C. government to consider a task force. "To determine the steps needed to erase the rape culture that is pervasive in schools, universities, work places, and elsewhere across Canada," says Mund, who was reading from the actual resolution. Mund says another part of the motion is that all hospitals should have rape kits, which he says is apparently not the case now.
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A city of Vernon resolution to help small businesses was defeated by a slim margin at the Union of BC Municipalities conference. Mayor Akbal Mund says the motion from councillor Bob Spiers was for the province to raise the statutory property exemption from $10,000 -- to $50,000, for Business Class 6 assessments. The idea was to provide small business a fair exemption for their increased increased assessed property value. Mund says the issue has been brought up in year's past, and defeated, but this time, every vote had to be counted. "That's how close it was, and it was defeated 52 to 48%," says Mund. Mund says 81 percent of the businesses in B.C. are classified as small.
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