Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas gives us a brief glimpse of the Farkas of his embattled city councillor days

When he took questions you could catch a glimpse of the fire-and-brimstone, pull-no-punches councillor who crossed swords and threw jabs at former-mayor Naheed Nenshi back in the day.

Jeromy Farkas was more subdued now that he finally was Mayor Farkas but at least some of his old lingo sounded familiar.

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The newly-minted mayor insists more than once how there must be a “significant reduction” in the property tax hike planned by the previous council. He thinks the current tax increase is far too high.

That’s the 5.4 per cent hike for homeowners.

By the way, some councillors think there should be no property tax increase for homeowners in this coming budget, the

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