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Ottawa’s ByWard Market vendors are hitting rock bottom in the new Vendor Village—once hailed as a revitalization boost, it’s now a graveyard of shuttered shipping-container shops. Sales plummet, businesses close early, and vendors like Kafui Salakor and Walaa Sarem report their worst performances ever. With twelve containers mostly vacant even during rush hours, frustration boils over: no consultation, rigid rules, broken promises like the “yellow brick road,” and construction blocking foot traffic. Vendors feel sidelined, silenced by the authority’s own guidebook warning against complaints—and they’re done playing along. What started as a “pilot project” was never explained to them, leaving many wondering if this was ever meant to be more than an experiment.

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