'Doesn't seem right': Grieving families slapped with carbon tax for cremation

By News on the Net -- CBC —— Bio and Archives January 12, 2017

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Two grieving Alberta families have each been slapped with a $100 carbon tax bill after having a relative cremated, just days after the tax was introduced in that province. The $100 fee was handwritten on Ed Connon's bill when he paid to cremate his 93-year-old mother, Margaret Connon, who died Jan. 7. The funeral home staff had no explanation for him. -- More...