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OttawaDi Rienzo Grocery & Deli in Ottawa's Little Italy is for sale. After decades spent serving up sandwiches and pasta, the owner says it is time to step away. Owner says after 54 years in business, now is the right time to retireCBC News · Posted: Oct 23, 2026 12:05 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour agoListen to this articleEstimated 2 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Di Rienzo's deli in Ottawa's Little Italy is listed for sale. (Joseph Tunney/CBC)Di Rienzo Grocery & Deli in Ottawa's Little Italy is for sale. After decades spent serving up sandwiches and pasta, the owner says it is time to step away. "We have decided that it was time, after 54 years, because otherwise you say, 'OK, we'll do it this year, we'll do it another year, we'll do it another year.' I think this is time," said owner Paolo Di Rienzo. The shop has been a fixture on Beech Street since the early 1970s, known for its widely popular sandwiches.

Open this photo in gallery:Matt, 53, has achieved his goal of retiring early with a comfortable lifestyle and his wife Mary, 50, would like to join him soon. Galit Rodan/The Globe and MailAt 53 years old, Matt has achieved his goal of retiring early with a comfortable lifestyle. His wife Mary, who is 50, would like to join him before year end. She’ll be leaving behind a technical consulting job paying $148,000 a year. The couple have a mortgage-free house valued at $2.7-million in the Greater Toronto Area and three children aged 19, 16 and 15. They have about $1.4-million in personal investments, all held in registered accounts, and Matt has another $289,000 in his corporation. In addition, Matt owns several properties in Florida worth $3.5-million gross, with $885,000 of associated debt. The properties generate positive cash flow. He also gets $57,600 a year in investment income. Their goals include paying for their children’s higher education, giving the children $100,000 each toward a home purchase, travelling and maybe buying a cottage. They ask if they can maintain their standard of living if Mary retires now.

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Severe sunburn increases the risk of developing melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer. Credit: Olga Pankova/GettyA personalized mRNA vaccine reduced the risk of skin cancer returning or the recipient dying by 42% when used alongside an immunotherapy drug, according to long-awaited results for what could become the first approved mRNA vaccine for cancer. Oncologists regard a risk reduction of 10% as substantial, says Kristen Radford, an immunotherapist at Mater Research in Brisbane. A risk reduction of more than 40% “would send many researchers over the Moon”, adds Seth Cheetham, a geneticist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. The personalized vaccine, called intismeran, is not designed to prevent skin cancer, or melanoma, from developing in the first place, but to stop it returning in people who have already undergone surgery to remove tumours. Anticipation for the trial results has been building since August, when the vaccine’s developers — Merck, based in Rahway, New Jersey, and Moderna, which is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts — announced early positive results.