It was another day of wildly seesawing markets on Monday, with the TSX index dropping more than 1,000 points in morning trading to finish down 572.92 on concerns over the $700-billion U.S. bailout passed on Friday.
Rising construction intentions for housing in Ottawa in August belied a downward movement in the rest of the country, according to new Statistics Canada data.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, North America experienced a rapid shift in demographics as a large portion of the population transitioned from urban centre living to suburban living.
Now that the US Senate has approved the Fifth Protocol to the Canada-US Tax Treaty, on Sept. 23, 2008, it looks as though the proposed changes to the treaty contained in the protocol will be ratified before the end of this year.
There is a definite ebb and flow in the popularity of the environment as a public issue. Presently it is in a state of flow, with the upcoming election bringing issues such as the Green Shift and Carbon Tax to the forefront.
Times are quite unsettling out there. We have a global credit crunch that has banks refusing to lend to each other. Financing for capital projects or mortgages is becoming scarce and bank failures have become almost commonplace in the United States.
Standing at the edge of his glass viewing box overlooking the Scotiabank Place ice surface, Roy Mlakar squints as he peers down at a clutch of hockey players shooting the puck around the glazed surface.
A Kanata-area federal Liberal candidate has pledged to restore federal funding for a local reskilling organization, the Ottawa Talent Initiative (OTI), adding his party would expand the federal government's largest industrial R&D tax credit program by $1.2 billion.
Zoom Airlines is under investigation by bankruptcy trustees for millions in transfers and unpaid loans, according to media reports.
The Ottawa-based junior mining company said it has agreed to pay roughly $8.7 million to Tara Gold Resources Corp. to acquire 100 per cent of the San Miguel gold and silver mine in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Ottawa-based Green Swan Capital Corp. (TSX-V:GSW) announced Wednesday that it has completed its initial public offering (IPO) of 4,000,000 common shares, at the price of 10 cents per common share.
A host of Ottawa stocks roared back to life on Tuesday, as North American markets rallied to halve their respective losses from Monday's precipitous drops.