News Items tag as: Kelowna Council Votes 2019

Kelowna strikes blow for housing affordability by limiting short-term rentals
May 22, 2019 - 11:28 AM

KELOWNA - Despite the fact that the majority of speakers at a public hearing last night argued in favour of putting their suites into the Airbnb rental pool, Kelowna city council chose to go the other way.
Kelowna mayor flexes muscles, brings back dead development
May 14, 2019 - 4:06 PM

KELOWNA - A development that was recently turned down at a public hearing was given new life because Kelowna mayor Colin Basran leveraged a rarely used power to bring it back to the table.
Kelowna council pumps the brakes on short term rental rules
March 13, 2019 - 7:54 AM

KELOWNA - After sitting through roughly five hours of public criticism, Kelowna city council is delaying new rules on short term rentals and will consider allowing basement suites and carriage houses to be rented to tourists.
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Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to end its ban on homegrown recreational cannabis — a move that would leave Quebec as the only province with such a restriction. "We're just allowing Manitobans to have the same

Kamloops council to expand tax exemptions for new rental builds
Developers have more land to choose from if they want to cut costs on new rental buildings in Kamloops. The City is looking to expand a tax exemption program to span massive swaths of Kamloops in order to encourage development. Previously r

Kelowna strikes blow for housing affordability by limiting short-term rentals