The Ottawa Light Rail Project has been a lightning rod of civic controversy since its inception in 2010. And last week, lightning struck again.
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Category: Business
New businesses slam slow-moving NCC bureaucracy
New businesses that rent space in National Capital Commission heritage buildings on Sparks Street are upset with the Crown corporation because they say that the slow-moving bureaucracy makes it difficult to get their businesses up and running. 
Kristy Wright, Centretown NewsSome Spark Street shop owners say high heritage standards are slowing business development.
Food enthusiasts take fight to Ottawa’s streets
In a city rich with cultural diversity and skilled culinary chefs, are French fries and hamburgers the best Ottawa can do on the streets? 
Belinda Ha, Centretown NewsFood enthusiasts are hoping to improve the diversity of Ottawa's street food with an online petition. So far, the petition has more than 600 signatures, but hopes to garner 2,000.
Local shop owners welcome expansion of victims’ rights
Owners of several Centretown convenience stores say they won’t be tying up shoplifters as Toronto shopkeeper David Chen did, controversially, a few years ago, but they would still welcome a proposed federal law that would make it easier to place thieves under citizen’s arrest.
Laura Kluz, Centretown NewsMark Boushey supports a bill that expands his right to defend his property, but is unlikely to take advantage of it.