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A Centretown business association says new parking meters installed along Bank Street may eventually drive customers away because of increased parking enforcement.
“We’re spending tens of thousands of dollars promoting parking while at the same time we have this overzealousness on the part of the enforcement,” says Gerry LePage, executive director of the Bank Street Promenade, a local merchants’ association.
The current Asian economic crisis has disturbed trade with most countries visited by Team Canada trade missions and has raised questions about the missions’ effectiveness, according to one of the North-South Institute’s top researchers.
Ted Paterson, director of finance and special projects at the North-South Institute in the Byward Market, says many of the deals signed by businesses accompanying Prime Minister Jean Chrétien during the Team Canada missions to Asia in the past four years could be in jeopardy.
OC Transpo is trying to woo the white-collar worker to the bus.
The transit commission is lobbying the federal government to declare transit passes a non-taxable benefit. Companies could include a bus pass in their benefits packages, reducing pollution, parking problems and road decay. And ridership would increase, allowing OC Transpo to offer more efficient service.
Sparks Street Mall to fight wrongful dismissal
The Sparks Street Mall Management Board intends to fight the wrongful dismissal suit filed against it by its former boss.
In documents filed with the Ontario Court, General Division, the board has said it had just cause to terminate Kenneth Dale’s employment and says that no assurances were made to extend Dale’s contract.
The board has asked the court to dismiss Dale’s suit with legal costs.