David Sali

Dave is OBJ’s senior writer and editor with two decades of experience in the newspaper industry working for a variety of publications from community weeklies to major dailies. He is a four-time award-winning journalist by the Alliance of Area Business Publishers (AABP). He has received awards for best news feature, best scoop and best overall writer among medium-sized business publications.

Ottawa’s Kevin Ford opens his M&A playbook at CEO Talks luncheon

Techopia

Kevin Ford has a theory for why more than seven in 10 mergers and acquisitions fail, and it has little to do with profit margins

Canopy Growth’s Bruce Linton named Ottawa’s CEO of the Year

Ottawa

Of the multitude of extra-curricular activities Bruce Linton engaged in as a student at Carleton University, smoking pot wasn’t one of them. So it might

Ottawa-based Primecorp Commercial Realty acquired by large California brokerage

Non-Residential

Ottawa’s largest independent commercial real estate brokerage has been sold to a U.S.-based industry giant. Primecorp Commercial Realty CEO Aik Aliferis told OBJ Wednesday afternoon

Mayoral candidates tackle Parliament Hill reno, Airbnb questions at Ottawa tourism debate

City Hall

Ottawa’s mayoral challengers clashed over how to boost public safety in the ByWard Market and the need to regulate online accommodation platforms such as Airbnb

Jadco Group revives plans for Medical Arts Building condo in Ottawa’s Centretown

Residential

A Quebec-based developer is reviving plans for a 27-storey mixed-use highrise on Metcalfe Street that would incorporate elements of the Art Deco-style heritage building currently

Ottawa’s Slice Labs lands US$20M amid push to upend insurance industry

Techopia

An Ottawa tech firm that provides a cloud-based platform to quickly process insurance applications using artificial intelligence has landed US$20 million in venture capital financing.

Martello CFO Erin Crowe pushes for more women in the C-suite

Techopia

In nearly two decades as an executive with the Ottawa Senators, Erin Crowe got used to regularly being the only woman in the boardroom. It

Update: Farm Boy co-CEO moves to reassure customers in wake of $800M sale to Sobeys parent

Retail

The parent company of grocery giant Sobeys announced Monday it was acquiring homegrown Ottawa food retailer Farm Boy, leaving a bad taste in the mouths

A Canada 150 hangover? What hangover?

Tourism

Buoyed by crowd-pleasing tourist attractions such as the Canada Science and Technology Museum’s Art of the Brick exhibit, some local hotels say they enjoyed a