Business Headlines / April 14, 2006

Downtown cabbies hurting after zone change   Downtown cab drivers are experiencing a dramatic loss of business three months after city council opened taxi zones.   Despite low unemployment, job prospects for students high   Even with Ottawa’s unemployment rate at an all-time low, Centretown businesses are not having any trouble finding summer help, according to a local youth employment office.   Warmer temperatures led to prostitution sweep   A recent two-day prostitution sweep in downtown Ottawa, during which police arrested 53 people, was triggered by warmer temperatures, not by complaints from local business, say police.   Business Beat: Management, unions need win-win approach to negotiations   Ontario College teachers’ strike recently left thousands of students wondering if their year would be lost.