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Step outside the door of your home and look around. Virtually everything is tied to a municipal responsibility.

Roads, sidewalks, buses, taxis, municipal parks, residential garbage, drinking water, police … the list goes on. Your property taxes pay for these things, so it makes complete sense that you should be interested in how the next city council will spend that money.

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On Oct. 22, residents will elect a mayor and 23 ward councillors to represent their interests for a four-year term starting Dec. 1. It will be a grind for those politicians, with major decisions looming as soon as they’re sworn in, from cannabis regulations to the 2019 municipal budget.

These dozen topics are just the beginning, but they might be the hottest issues that consume council through to the 2022 election.

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