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• The amount of sales per square foot that the Rideau Centre achieves, the 12th best of shopping centres in Canada. (Craig Patterson at Retail Insider)
  

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Bill Staubi

• The 69 year-old art collector will be gifting his collection of 1,200 – 1,300 pieces to the City of Ottawa, the Ottawa Art Gallery, the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, the Penitentiary Museum in Kingston as well as friends and the original artists. Staubi has received a diagnosis of Stage-4 liver cancer and wants to sure his collection, most by Ottawa artists, finds a proper home. (Bruce Deachman in the Ottawa Citizen)
  

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From a marketing perspective, the 96-page document that landed on Monday is covered in loser dust

• Ottawa Citizencolumnist Brigitte Pellerin on the impenetrable new zoning bylaw for Ottawa draft. Rather than inspire, Pellerin writes, the document is a jargon filled struggle. (Brigitte Pellerin in the Ottawa Citizen) (The Draft Zoning Bylaw [PDF])