B.C.'s largest cities on a spending spree for last decade: report

Less than six weeks before municipal elections, a new report is criticizing B.C.’s cities and towns for jacking up both spending and property taxes by 43 per cent between 2006 and 2016, during a time when the province’s population increased by just 12 per cent.
The report, from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, ranks 152 B.C. municipalities on their operational spending, which includes costs such as policing, parks and transportation, but does not include capital expen