Archive 1997-2016
Most Sparks Street retailers don’t want the benches, fountains and summer patios on their street replaced by parking spots, polluting cars and noisy buses.
Thirty merchants were surveyed by Centretown News and asked if they would prefer having cars or people as the main traffic on their street. An overwhelming 87 per cent want it to remain as is. Those who prefer a pedestrian mall say the idea to return to vehicular traffic could harm their business.
On-line commerce, or e-commerce, is a booming business.
Last year the Canadian Bankers’ Association estimated on-line commerce to be worth at least $33.5 billion U.S. Some companies even expect it to reach $435 billion U.S. by 2002.
But only 10 per cent of those actually logging onto the Internet purchase anything. Many don’t have a credit card, and others don’t want to give their credit card numbers to companies they have never encountered
This season, Ottawa’s women hockey players are at a whole new level.
Ottawa’s first AAA women’s team, the National Capital Raiders, have begun their season. The drop of a puck has marked a new era in hockey in the region.
There are a number of women’s AAA teams in Canada, but before the Raiders, Ottawa-area women had to move elsewhere to play at this high of a level.
Centretown businesses, large and small, can profit in many ways from a new alternative to traditional employment agencies.
World Skills Staffing Service is a non-profit organization that matches prospective employers with people who are new to Canada and in need of employment.