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Keith Gerein: Edmonton's mayor turns up the heat, but it's not necessarily a sign he's running again

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Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi announced a new advocacy campaign last week .

The Fair Compensation Project aims to better inform residents of “several ways that the City of Edmonton is not being fairly compensated for the services we provide” The big piece of that is the province’s failure to pay its full share of property taxes on government buildings in recent years , even though such facilities benefit from snow clearing, transit, street lighting, police and so on.

Mayor Sohi 's Fair Compensation Project is not really election-focused, though that could later change.

Right now, it's more about the dynamics of the city’s upcoming budget, trying to reduce a projected seven per cent tax hike for 2025 .

The city would use that revenue to reduce future tax increases and replenish its emergency fund.

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