{"id":899614,"date":"2026-09-17T21:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T21:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/899614\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T21:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T21:04:19","slug":"mount-pearl-tops-in-country-when-it-comes-to-business-cost-burden-says-cfib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/899614\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Pearl Tops in Country When it Comes to Business Cost Burden says CFIB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/city-of-mount-pearl-commonwealth-avenue-ruth-park-intersection.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Mount Pearl Tops in Country When it Comes to Business Cost Burden says CFIB\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Federation of Independent Business says Canadian cities, including St. John\u2019s and Mount Pearl, are failing small business \u2013 but Mount Pearl is doing better than others when it comes to at least one indicator.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the finding of the CFIB\u2019s first Municipal Report Card released this week. <\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Galgay says more than half of the 66 municipalities analysed received a failing grade. <\/p>\n<p>He says while both Mount Pearl (D) and St. John\u2019s (F) were graded poorly, Mount Pearl did come out on top in one indicator. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what\u2019s really interesting about the whole report, is that Mount Pearl ranked number one in Canada on cost burden ahead of all 66 municipalities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEssentially, businesses in Mount Pearl pay less than the proportional share of property taxes relative to the assessed value. They are a leader and people are watching.\u201d      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) The Canadian Federation of Independent Business says Canadian cities, including St. John\u2019s and Mount Pearl,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-899614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}