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Tuesday, September 11, 2012 The Chilliwack Progress
Executors & Estate Settlement Seminar
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Student debt ‘big issue’ at UFV
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If you have appointed an executor for your estate, or are named as an executor for someone else’s estate, you should attend this complimentary seminar.
Chilliwack-Hope MLA Gwen O’Mahony on campus tour
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TOPICS: • How your executor can save time and money on estate settlement fees
TuESday, SEPT. 25
• Pros and cons of joint ownership
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• What is probate? Is it always wise to avoid it?
CHIllIWaCk Cultural Centre: 9201 Corbould Street
• Overview of capital gains tax
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The student debt load was a “common theme” heard among students at the new UFV campus in Chilliwack and at the Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, says Chilliwack-Hope MLA Gwen O’Mahony. Inter-campus transportation between Chilliwack and Abbotsford was also an issue at the UFV campus, she said. O’Mahony, the NDP’s skills training critic, and Michelle Mungall, NDP education critic, started a tour of 10 post-secondary institutions in B.C. with a visit to the UFV campus last Thursday. O’Mahony said the New Democrats have a solution to both student concerns. She said NDP Leader Adrian Dix has committed to bringing in a $100-million needs-based, non-repayable student grant program to ease the debt load of B.C. students, who currently carry an average $27,000 in debt after graduating from a four-year program. “This is the largest debt load in Canada,” O’Mahony said, with the highest provincial interest rates in the country. She said the NDP has also advocated using funds collected from the carbon tax to pay for transportation projects, which could solve the problem of getting students to classes in Chilliwack and Abbotsford. She said a shuttle bus like a “really successful” one at Kwantlen could solve the inter-campus transportation problem, or the long-proposed restoration of the old Interurban transit line. Continued: DEBT/ p9
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