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Collins Barrow Ottawa wins 2011 Employees' Choice Award
OTTAWA, April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - For a third consecutive year, Collins Barrow Ottawa was selected as a winner of the Employees' Choice Awards. Sponsored by Ottawa Business Journal, the Awards recognize the National Capital Region's top employers based on employee opinions. In a message to the staff of Collins Barrow Ottawa, Mayor Jim Watson writes "On behalf of my colleagues on the Ottawa City Council, I would like to take this opportunity to personally congratulate you on being one of ten recipients of the 2011 Employees' Choice Awards." "We are honoured that the team has spoken so favorably about their experiences at Collins Barrow," says Stewart Wilson, Assurance Partner in charge of Human Resources.

Collins Barrow Ottawa LLP appoints Ken Tammadge new Managing Partner
OTTAWA, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - The partners of Collins Barrow Ottawa LLP, a leading mid-market tax, accounting and business advisory services firm, are pleased to announce the appointment, effective Jan. 1, 2012, of Kenneth Tammadge, CA,  CPA (ILL), to the post of Managing Partner overseeing the practice's 100 partners and staff. Ken, a tax partner with more than 30 years of experience advising entrepreneurial clients on business succession, estate, retirement and cross-border tax planning issues, succeeds Randy Tivy, CA, whose tenure marked a period of tremendous growth for the venerable 50-year-old firm.

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/R E P E A T -- Media Advisory - Minister of State Bal Gosal Makes Announcement About Olympic and Paralympic Sports/
OTTAWA, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - The Honourable Bal Gosal, Minister of State (Sport), will make an announcement regarding Olympic and Paralympic sports on Tuesday, in Ottawa. Also present will be Senator Larry Smith, representatives from the Canadian Olympic Committee, the Canadian Paralympic Committee and Own the Podium, as well as Canadian Olympic and Paralympic athletes. This advisory is subject to change without notice. The details are as follows: Date:  Tuesday, March 13, 2012   Time:  11:30 a.m.

How to Select Townhouses in Ottawa
Ottawa Townhouses often can a superb "middle way" between a detached single family home and a full condominium, because to a sure degree, they offer attributes of both. A townhouse is by meaning a house that in one or more other houses, but which sits straight on a section of land that you own (if you do not own land, it is a condominium). For this conversation, townhouses can range from duplex and triplexes all the way through huge townhouse communities, consisting of hundreds of comparable houses. It is a good degree of difference in the way townhouse communities are structured. It can be a simple contract (as is often the case, the duplex and triplexes), that every part of land and sits at home, it is owned separately.

Budget Watch: How Ottawa should Reform Seniors' Benefits
- C.D. Howe Institute TORONTO, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Ottawa should move to reform seniors' benefits in the upcoming budget by letting recipients choose richer payments, later, from the Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplement programs if they wish, according to a report from the C.D. Howe Institute.  In "What to do About Seniors' Benefits in Canada: The Case for Letting Recipients Take Richer Payments Later," William B.P. Robson says letting OAS and GIS recipients delay take-up and rewarding those who do could contain program costs over time in a way that is less stressful to recipients than raising the universal eligibility age, and less discouraging to work and saving than intensifying clawbacks. ...

Harper Government Boosts Tourism by Investing in War of 1812 Commemorations across Canada
VANCOUVER, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Important commemorations for the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 will boost tourism and allow Canadians to celebrate their history, thanks to investments from the Government of Canada.