Property taxes are calculated based on the assessed value of your property. The assessment value shown on your 2022 property tax statement reflects a market value date of April 1, 2018.
2023 Reassessment notices were mailed to all property owners on May 25, 2022. These notices indicate updated values which will be used to calculate the 2023 property taxes, and these values reflect a market date of April 1, 2021. Assessment and classification may be appealed; however, taxes may not be appealed.
The average overall assessment increase in this reassessment was 9.9%. If your assessment has moved in line with the average, you will not experience a change in taxes due to this reassessment. If your assessment change was above or below the average, you may experience an adjustment in taxes proportionate to your deviation from the average increase.
The graph below illustrates how the property taxes of individual properties in the RM of Tache may be impacted by Reassessment 2023.
Appealing your Assessment
The appeal deadline for the 2023 assessment values was October 18th, 2022, and the Board of Revision was held on November 3rd, 2022.
That being said, when you receive a supplementary tax notice for new construction, such as a new residence, garage, renovations, etc, your right to appeal will be stated in a letter along with that supplementary notice. Appeals must be submitted to the Municipal office. We strongly recommend that you call the Provincial Assessment Branch to discuss your property value prior to registering an appeal, as many questions or issues can be easily answered by phone.
Ratepayers have been informed, or can receive additional information, about Reassessment 2023 in the following ways:
Ø A Provincial website, providing property assessments, maps and answers to frequently asked questions, is available. Anyone with internet access can obtain this information at https://manitoba.ca/openmb/infomb/departments/index.html or www.gov.mb.ca/assessment.
Ø MyPropertyMB: Manitobans can now access and receive their assessment notice and detailed property assessment information online by creating an account at https://manitoba.ca/myproperty
Ø A toll free customer service line is available for ratepayers to contact their local assessment office at 1-866-216-9342. The local number is 204-326-9896.


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Through Boom and Bust, 'Invisible Houston' Persists
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Forrest Wilder Dec 19, 2013, 1:26 pm CST
When Robert Bullard—sociologist, activist and leader of the environmental-justice movement—published his first book, Invisible Houston, in 1987, the city was in the dumps. The oil boom of the late 1970s and early 1980s had turned to bust, and the job losses, foreclosures and emptied malls had tarnished the "Golden Buckle of the Sunbelt," as the city was known in the boomtown years. But this was Houston, Texas, dammit, a city where all that is solid melts into air and you can do anything with enough money. Soon, the boosters got to work. "Houston, Back on Top to Stay" was the slogan that the Houston Economic Development Council came up with. And, sure enough, Houston emerged from the recession faster than other Texas cities and got back to the business of making money.
But Bullard's 1987 book wasn't about Houston's rollercoaster economy celebrated by the town's elite. It was about those who gain the least during the booms, lose the most during the busts, and remain invisible throughout. At that time, Houston was still a biracial Southern city, divided between an Anglo majority and a large black minority. It had yet to lay claim to its current cosmopolitanism or its startling new status as the most diverse city in the nation. In Bullard's telling, it was Houston's black community—the largest in the South at the time—that suffered largely in silence.
"They are basically invisible when it comes to power, the power to keep things that other people don't want out of their neighborhoods, the power to get access to the economic infrastructure, the power to get access to the political infrastructure," he told me.
Twenty-five years later, Houston is reveling in another boom, and poor residents are almost as invisible as ever.
In November, Bullard called together a group of activists, scholars and citizens—mostly African-Americans—at Texas Southern University for "Invisible Houston: Revisited." After 25 years in California and Atlanta, Bullard returned to Houston two years ago to serve as dean of Texas Southern's public-policy school. What Bullard sees now is a city that's undergone dramatic transformation yet remains wedded to an old political structure. It's a city (and state, really) that loves to tout its "miracle" economy that leaves too many of its citizens behind. It's a city that barely bats an eye at giving $3 million in tax subsidies to Chevron for an office tower the company was going to build anyway, but balks at even crafting a housing policy for a struggling working class.
"We still have invisible Houston but now the population that's invisible is much larger and is much more diverse," Bullard said recently. "That diversity does not translate into the changing of the guards when it comes to the power. It's like Oz. Who's actually pulling the strings and running things? It's not that 75 percent," he said, referring to the percentage of Houston residents who are non-Anglo.
At the conference, Rice University demographer Stephen Klineberg said Houston has the most even distribution among the four great communities of major U.S. cities: 44 percent Hispanic, 23 percent black, 26 percent white, and 7 percent Asian and other. But don't call it a melting pot. The city is deeply segregated geographically along race and class lines—a feature, not a bug, of its notoriously laissez-faire attitude. Sarmistha Majumdar, a professor at Texas Southern, said income-based segregation in Houston, based on her analysis of Census tracts, is the worst in the nation. Gentrification of old "inner-city" black neighborhoods is "turning the city inside out," driving black and brown Houstonians to the "-lands" (Pearland, Sugarland, The Woodlands), where services are scant and public transit minimal.
Along the Ship Channel, the number of tons of carcinogenic pollution has dropped significantly over the decades, but the health impacts on nearby minority neighborhoods are even more disproportionate now than they were in the 1980s—another consequence of inequality.
Still, Bullard is upbeat about the prospects for change. "I am very hopeful," he said. "When I left 25 years ago, there were not that many people doing the work I do and now there is a whole cadre, a whole army."
Forrest Wilder, a native of Wimberley, Texas, is the editor of the Observer.
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Loved one's death can shake a person's faith
WORD MADE FLESH
Brett Fawcett
All Souls' Day – November 2, 2014
Lamentations 3.17-26 | Psalm 103 | 1 Corinthians 15.51-57 | Matthew 11.25-30
Many devout believers in God have had their faith severely shaken by the death of a loved one. Even the great Christian apologist, C.S. Lewis, almost lost his faith when his wife died of cancer. It can be hard to believe that a God of love would allow us to experience something as cruel as grief.
Yet grief is not a sin, even when it causes us to doubt God's goodness. Indeed, in our First Reading from Lamentations, the prophet Jeremiah bluntly expresses this sort of tortured grief over the destruction of Jerusalem and the massacre of the Jews.
'The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end.'
Lamentations 3.22
"I have forgotten what happiness is," he cries, and "gone is . . . all that I had hoped for from the Lord." In his grief, Jeremiah confesses to "despair" (a word that literally means a loss of hope). He doesn't deny or suppress these feelings, but honestly admits to them.
How did he regain his hope? How can we?
It is worthwhile to remember why human death occurs at all. Of course, death is, from a natural perspective, inevitable. But St. Athanasius says that when man and woman were created, the grace of God elevated them above nature into a state of blessed immortality. Once we fell into sin, however, we gave up that gift and collapsed into a state of mortality.
When we mourn the death of a loved one, therefore, let us also remember to mourn our sins, which caused death to afflict us in the first place. (Understanding that human sin is ultimately why God allows suffering is a theme of Lamentations.)
Yet, Athanasius continues, God was not content to leave us there, but chose to enter the human situation and save us. It is significant that Jesus triumphed over death as a representative of the human race. He conquered death on our behalf.
The grave has already been defeated, though it won't be abolished until the resurrection. St. Paul celebrates this in the Second Reading. At the triumphant blast of the angelic trumpet, the dead will be raised, and our mortal bodies will put on the immortality of Christ's body. Death will be undone and disappear forever, and the separation will be over.
This is what we hope for. As we say in the Creed, "I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come." Until that day, faith is sustained by thousands of little blessings from God which remind us that God loves us and is actively working to save us and to set all things right.
This is what Jeremiah remembers: "His mercies never come to an end, they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." "Therefore," he says, "I have hope."
On All Souls' Day and all year round, let us ask and offer hope-filled prayers to the faithful departed who sleep in the peace of Christ. Let us ask especially for a greater outpouring of the virtue of hope.
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The Tories are no friends of a publicly owned NHS – they never have been & never will be. Jon Trickett MP Exclusive. #Budget2021
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"In the Budget, the government should not only give a boost to the wages of NHS key workers, but also reject the privatisation of the NHS & an end to grotesque practices of dishing out NHS contracts to Tory cronies."
Jon Trickett MP
Stay home. Protect the NHS. Save Lives. This has been the government's mantra throughout this pandemic. And rightly so.
But, in doing so, we have to question why the UK has one the highest number of covid-19 related deaths per 100,000 of population.
In my view, the founding principles of the NHS, introduced by a bold and progressive Labour government, are as relevant today as they were then.
Yet such a vision is far from the reality under this Tory administration.
One could easily be mistaken, as I am sure the Tories will claim, that they are the Party that protected the NHS during this pandemic.
But this is far from the truth.
The reality is that the Tories' distrust of the NHS has done nothing more than weaken the country's resilience against covid-19.
The government's neglect and broken promises to address the crisis in social care and their cuts to public health budgets, this has increased society's pain. Particularly so amongst the working class communities and the most vulnerable.
The Tories are no friends of a publicly owned NHS – they never have been and never will be.
Since the days of Thatcher, they have been running down our NHS – acting as an obstacle, not a facilitator in the country's fight against the burden of ill health – through botched NHS reorganisations fragmenting the national service, back-door privatisation and reversing Labour's investment in the NHS.
The Tory stewardship of the NHS has been devastating.
The facts speak for themselves.
Since 2010 there has been an 18% decrease in the number of hospital beds with available bed occupancy falling from 144,455 to 118,510.
Under Labour over 230 new NHS walk-in centres were established. Under the Tories over 100 of these have been closed or downgraded.
In my own region, Yorkshire and the Humber, we have seen a decrease in GP surgeries from 863 in 2010 to 668 in 2020.
Furthermore, when Labour left office around 95% of patients spent less than 4 hours in A&E by 2019 this had fallen to 75%.
And with waiting lists for operations and treatments now taking years to get back down to pre-pandemic levels, let us not forget that under the Tories NHS waiting lists grew to their highest levels in a decade.
Investing in NHS staff has fallen too – the key workers that the government is quick to praise – have had a raw deal under the Tories.
In 1997, Labour started to rebuild the NHS starting with its people with its workforce increasing 3 times faster under Labour than under the Tories and mean annual earnings for newly qualified nurses fell in real terms by more than £3,000 since 2010 and record numbers of health workers are now on zero hours contracts.
In 2019 there were around 100,000 NHS job vacancies in England, of which 40,000 were nurses and 10,000 doctors. The significant shortages in NHS staffing levels may explain why the newly built Nightingale hospitals were built, but not fully utilised.
And to cap it off, no government has invested less additional cash in real terms in our NHS that the Tory administrations post 2010. Between 2010 and 2017 NHS spending was the slowest of any NHS average spending settlement since 1955.
It is clear that the Tory record in government on the NHS has not been one of protecting the NHS.
Fewer doctors and nurses, fewer surgeries and walk-ins and reductions in bed availability is the Tory's policy for the NHS, leaving dedicated workers to stretch their dedication and commitment to providing quality healthcare to the limits.
For nearly a year since this pandemic began, hard-working NHS workers have gone beyond the call of duty. In some cases risking their own lives to save others. In the face of personal stress, strain and even exhaustion they have delivered for the country. The least the government should do is ensure we do all possible to support their own well-being and properly value their contribution. Sadly, it is the Tories that continue to take them for granted.
It is therefore no surprise that the government did not want to publish their 2016 assessment of its own pandemic preparedness – Exercise Cygnus – until it was forced to an intervention from the Information Commissioner's Office seven months into this pandemic, as it concluded that "its plans, policies and capability, is not sufficient to cope with the extreme demands of a severe pandemic that will have a nationwide impact across all sectors."
Some say now is not the time to be critical of the government. I disagree.
There are many lessons that need to be learnt from this pandemic.
And the Tories should not be allowed to get away with the manner in which their ideological opposition to the NHS has affected the country's level of response to covid-19.
Worryingly, their recently published health and care reforms are a continuation of this.
Yet we on the Left know this will not work – and only result in inefficiencies and inequity in accessing health care. And fundamentally leads to the privatisation of the NHS.
You only have to compare the botched politically managed Track and Trace system, cooked up by the Health and Social Care Secretary and claimed to be world beating by the Prime Minister, with the efficient and effective NHS-led vaccination programme. Driven by the NHS and based on health need to see who is on the side of the people.
This week's budget, however, is an opportunity to change this.
The government should not only give a boost to the wages of NHS key workers, but also reject the privatisation of the NHS and an end to grotesque practices of dishing out NHS contracts to Tory cronies.
But most importantly, there needs to be an urgent commitment to massively increase NHS investment to the frontline to reverse the damage that has been done in the name of Tory austerity.
Failure to change direction will only put increased strain on an already stretched NHS and ignore the lessons of this pandemic – something the government may want, but something the country cannot afford to ignore.
The Jon Trickett MP 'No Holding Back' column is one of a number of a regular columns on Labour Outlook from Socialist Campaign Group MPs, including Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Lavery, John McDonnell, Kate Osborne, Bell Ribeiro-Addy & Claudia Webbe.
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By William "Skip" Deegans
In 1947, many Greenbrier Valley residents may have seen the first women's professional basketball team at the Ronceverte Armory. Olson's Great American Red Heads played the local American Legion men's team by men's rules. Tickets cost $1.12. While there doesn't seem to be a record of the score, it is quite likely the men were beaten.
Connie Mack ("Ole") Olson started the Red Heads in 1936 in Cassville, Missouri. As a gimmick to promote his wife's five hair salons, he recruited players who were naturally red headed or women willing to dye their hair bright red. They wore shinny satin uniforms and traveled all over the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Philippines for six decades. They played about 200 games a season and won 70% of them. At one point, there were three teams, one of which was an African-American team named the Harlem Chics (later changed to the Harlem Queens). The first half of their games were played seriously, but the second half was full of antics and fancy ball handling, making the Red Heads comparable to the Harlem Globe Trotters.
A stand-out player was Lorene Moore who scored 35,426 points in over 2,000 games.
Beginning at a time when women's competitive sports were barely recognized, the Red Heads showed the country that women were equally capable as men to play basketball. In tribute to their contribution to basketball, the Red Heads were inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) was founded in 1997, sixty-one years after the Red Heads played their first game.
Photo: Courtesy of the Barry County (Missouri) Museum.
Sources: Barry County Museum, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, The Greenbrier Independent
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"We will reciprocate with honor and vigor": Mus Sema
Arland Abubakkar, Luwaran
Reacting to President Rodrigo Duterte's statement on putting closure to the Bangsamoro Question during his First State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday (July 25), former Cotabato City Vice Mayor and Chairman of the MNLF-Council of 15 said that, "There is a possibility that he (Duterte) would be the last president we are to negotiate with. We are inspired by his being positive on the peace process and for that we will reciprocate with honor and vigor".
Sema's group is the largest among the four factions of the MNLF and the only one that signed a unified declaration with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
"It is easier to solve the Mindanao problem now while the moderate, older Moro leaders are still alive. The next generation of Moro leaders will surely be radical and dealing with them might be tediously difficult," Sema said as quoted by Philstar..
Ghazali Jaafar, 1st Vice Chairman of the MILF said they are certain Duterte would keep his pledge to abide by all agreements between Malacañan and Moro groups, Philstar said in its report.
Jaafar said their trust in Duterte is bolstered by his being from Davao City and his having Maranaw and lumad ancestry.
"No one will understand better the Moro issue but a Mindanaoan," Jaafar said.
Addressing on Friday (July 22) the 6th Infantry Division Headquarters at Camp Siongco in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao, Pres. Duterte said that "In pursuit of peace, he was ready to give the MILF the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), (but) minus the contentious provisions that are deemed unconstitutional.
He also lauded Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, Chair of the MILF for pursuing peace talks with the government.
Meanwhile, Mohagher Iqbal, MILF Chief Negotiator emphasized during the launching of the book entitled "Mindanao: The Long Journey to Peace and prosperity" in Makati last July 19, "That the MILF will always be guided by protocols and mechanisms established by signed agreements".
"The continuity of the peace process will, in great respect, proceed along lines already mutually agreed upon, most essentially those stipulated in the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB)", Iqbal said.
Iqbal said Duterte administration has yet to engage formally with the MILF in the continuation of the peace process.