Category: Business

Thirty-nine hotels in the Ottawa Gatineau region have begun adding a three per cent leisure marketing fee onto their patrons’ bills in an effort to boost marketing budgets for the local tourism industry.

Considering Ottawa’s reputation as one of the country’s most expensive places in which to do business, you would think the city could at least offer owners conventional services in return for their exorbitant taxes . . .

A World Health Organization warning that no one under 18 should use a sun bed has some representatives of the tanning salon industry feeling burned.

By Sarah Osborne

Business owners at 240 Sparks St. say they are frustrated the government won’t give them long-term leases that would allow them to sell their businesses.

Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) owns the mall, which makes up the lower levels of the C. D. Howe building. Three years ago, Public Works announced plans to renovate. They decided that while they waited for money from the Treasury Board to pay for the project, they wouldn’t give businesses leases any longer than two years. read more