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Ottawa Public Health is looking into issuing a new category of licence for businesses such as salons and tattoo parlours, according to a report on recent efforts to increase health and safety standards across the city.
For stores in pedestrian-heavy neighbourhoods, shop windows are often the first point of contact with consumers. Local sex shops are no different. They need to get people’s attention and no one should be shocked when a sex shop window display represents what inside.
Outdoor patios popped up in front of a few more Elgin Street restaurants this summer with the introduction of a city pilot project, prompting concern from some Centretown residents who say patios take up too much space on the sidewalk. But some of the street’s restaurants see the patios as beneficial to their business. 
Samantha Halyk, Centretown NewsThe City of Ottawa recently approved Town, a restaurant on Elgin Street, for a patio pilot project.
After defending her Masters title at the Grand Slam of Curling on Nov. 3, the Ottawa Curling Club’s Rachel Homan is back in the city and preparing for next month’s Olympic trials.