Convenience stores and smoke shops in Ottawa are losing money because of rising sales of contraband cigarettes.
Contraband cigarettes a drag on local store sales
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Mentally ill homeless left to fend for themselves
Ottawa has virtually no support services exclusively for its mentally ill homeless people.
Councillors backtrack on parking proposals
City council has approved the 2008 budget, which backtracks on some controversial plans to increase parking revenue and approves a raise to property taxes by 4.9 per cent.
Neighbourhood survey unkind to downtown
The Centretown-Downtown area ranks almost among the least advantaged areas of the city in terms of certain socio-economic factors, a recent study of neighbourhood profiles has found.