Category: Business

Business experts and seniors’ groups are having mixed reactions over a new law ending mandatory retirement at age 65 in Ontario, which will allow employees to choose when they want to leave the workforce.

Ottawa residents are embracing the luxurious life. Seventy-five luxury homes were sold from January to September in 2006 – a sizable increase compared to the 56 units which were sold in 2005, says Royal LePage Real Estate Services’ Carriage Trade Luxury Properties Report.

The Canadian Tulip Festival injected $40-million into the regional economy, but Centretown businesses say they will be largely unaffected by the potential loss of the cash-strapped spring celebration.

Bar owners say they’re fed up with bylaw officers’ heavy-handed enforcement of the city’s poster bylaw.