A Nanaimo cidery owner is fighting back against a property assessment

The Vancouver Park Board is beginning the third and final phase of work to deal with thousands of high-risk trees in Stanley Park affected by the hemlock looper infestation. A Nanaimo cidery owner is disputing a property assessment that reclassified part of his farm as light industrial, a change that could trigger a 300–500% increase in property taxes. Veterinarians in the Okanagan are warning horse owners about an outbreak of strangles, a highly contagious bacterial disease affecting horses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices