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Anglers lament lack of parking at boat launches
Fishing charter captain Jon Bondy says he sometimes has to get up at 3 a.m. to get a good parking spot at the LaSalle Landing park on LaSalle's waterfront if he wants to launch his boat there.He says the municipality does not have enough parking spots to accommodate all the hundreds of walleye anglers who descend on the area this time of year."If you go to Sandusky, Ohio, you go to Michigan and you look at their facilities, they're booming. There's plenty of parking and this county has done an e
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City of Windsor joins London, Hamilton in "F" grades in fiscal transparency
If you've felt like municipal finances were a bit hard to follow, it's not just you: According to a new report from an independent think tank, the City of Windsor gets a "F" grade on financial and fiscal transparency.But the City of Windsor's treasurer says she takes issue with the failing score and the way it was determined. The report from the C.D. Howe Institute, released Thursday, looks at the financial transparency of 32 major Canadian municipalities. Windsor, along with Hamilton, Ont. and
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Plan to revamp downtown Ottawa block sparks debate over intensification
Kevin Gosselin is one of the residents of 178 Nepean who says he won't leave despite being asked to do so by the building's owner, which wants to redevelop the area with a roughly nine-storey residential tower with retail space on the ground floor. The project has not been approved by city councillors. (Guy Quenneville/CBC)A proposed redevelopment of a downtown Ottawa block is sparking a debate over the merits of intensification, with tenants feeling pushed to the side and the owner saying the p
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'We've been where they've been': People with lived addiction experience key in aiding Thunder Bay's vulnerable
When Nicole Lukas-Mckenzie tells her clients she knows what they're going through, she means it.At People Advocating for Change for Empowerment (PACE), a drop-in centre on Thunder Bay, Ont.'s south side, she sees people experiencing homelessness, addiction and the stigma that comes with facing complex social challenges."I was in active addiction for 12 years and I got sober. I've been 16 months sober now and I really, really would have loved a place like PACE to come to when I was in active addi
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Free our boats, Kingston cruise operators urge federal government
Cruise boat operators in Kingston, Ont., say they're desperately seeking a way to free vessels marooned on the wrong side of the LaSalle Causeway as the damaged bridge remains closed and the beginning of the busy marine season nears.With time running out, the companies have proposed solutions including opening up another section of the span or hoisting their ships over it.The unexpected and total shutdown of the causeway has left the Canadian Empress, Island Belle and Island Star all high and dr
4 min read - BusinessCBC
Do Ottawa's proposed capital gains tax changes affect inherited properties?
The federal government's budget proposal to increase the inclusion rate for the capital gains tax for people whose profits go past a certain threshold has drawn mixed reactions from experts, entrepreneurs and taxpayers.One asset affected by these changes is real estate, including cottages and investment homes.The change proposed in the Trudeau government's new budget would raise the inclusion rate to 67 per cent on capital gains above $250,000 for individuals.So for the first $250,000 in capital
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Immigration minister responds to critics over plan to detain migrants in penitentiaries
Immigration Minister Marc Miller confirmed to Radio-Canada that the federal government will be using its penitentiaries to hold some foreign nationals for immigration purposes.He said those detainees will be separated from the prison population, but that both groups could be sharing services."It would be separate housing and it would not be in the general population, because they are not criminals," Miller said, following Radio-Canada's story on the government's proposal buried at the bottom of
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