Archive 1997-2016
With Carleton University’s fall varsity season now over, athletics director Drew Love must make tough decisions in evaluating some teams’ accomplishments.
Topping his list should be the university’s most prominent team — football.
After watching Carleton falter from a 5-3 record and a playoff spot in 1996 to consecutive 1-7 last-place finishes, Love must choose to keep the football program or sack it.
Ottawa’s businesses and municipal authorities are worried a new provincial legislation could remove millions of dollars from the region’s economy.
The proposed Fairness for Property Taxpayers Act could remove some of the federal payments in lieu of taxes (PILs) from the municipality’s coffers because of a new provision limiting property tax increases at 10 per cent for 1998 and at five per cent for 1999 and 2000.
Ottawa’s businesses and municipal authorities are worried a new provincial legislation could remove millions of dollars from the region’s economy.
The proposed Fairness for Property Taxpayers Act could remove some of the federal payments in lieu of taxes (PILs) from the municipality’s coffers because of a new provision limiting property tax increases at 10 per cent for 1998 and at five per cent for 1999 and 2000.
Centretown’s economic well-being has declined over the last decade, matching national trends, according to some community and business leaders.
A study released by Lars Osberg, a Dalhousie University economist, and Andrew Sharpe, Centre for the Study of Living Standards executive director, in October shows that, although Canada’s gross domestic product rose by 2.5 per cent in the last decade, economic well-being was down 8.7 per cent from a peak period in 1989.