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June 4, 2025 - 04:01 | | CBC News - Canada
OTTAWA — The federal government’s GST rebate on new homes should be extended to seniors who want to downsize, a new report says, to help boost the supply and cut the price of family homes.
The report, released Tuesday by the Ottawa-based Missing Middle Initiative, says that Canada’s housing crisis is being partly fuelled by market bottlenecks preventing seniors from downsizing.
The document says that Canada’s housing supply problems include a lack of smaller homes with access to seniors’ preferred facilities and services, which creates disincentives for empty nesters to downsize....
June 4, 2025 - 04:00 | Simon Tuck | National Post
Re: 'A tax on sick people': Ottawa hospitals have record-breaking year for parking revenue, June 2. Read More
June 4, 2025 - 04:00 | Christina Spencer, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Citizen
Construction industry "pressures" could delay the scheduled opening of Ādisōke, the new $334-million Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada joint facility, city staff told councillors Tuesday. Read More
June 4, 2025 - 04:00 | Aedan Helmer | Ottawa Citizen
It was a conversation Daniel Knight will not forget. The Carleton University researcher’s father had recently been diagnosed with ALS. What Knight said seems prescient now. Read More
June 4, 2025 - 04:00 | Elizabeth Payne | Ottawa Citizen
A high-ranking RCMP officer has decided to retire rather than appear before a disciplinary hearing over a case of sexual misconduct involving a part-time colleague and university student, according to information obtained by Radio-Canada.
June 4, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Canada
