David Sali

Dave is OBJ's senior features writer 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.

‘Scrappy we got’: How Escape Manor found its way out of the pandemic

In March 2020, Steve Wilson and his partners at Escape Manor were riding high. Founded six years earlier,...

Kanata-based tech mainstay Mitel files for bankruptcy protection in U.S.

Ottawa-based Mitel Networks has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States as the unified communications service...

Wesley Clover unveils details of office-to-residential conversion project in Kanata North

In a site plan application recently filed with the city, Wesley Clover International, which owns the hotel, The Marshes Golf Club and the adjoining office property at 535 Legget Dr., says the repurposed 11-storey tower will contain 115 rental apartments and about 4,300 square feet of ground-floor office space.

Only in Canada, eh? Ottawa firm not sorry about using humour to promote homegrown businesses

Web development firm PageCloud has created a new website called Made in Canada, which it dubs the "unofficial, official list of Canadian owned businesses.”

YMCA holding on to flagship Centretown building as site’s assessed value falls

After shopping the property since 2022, the YMCA has decided not to sell its marquee building on...

Apartment rents levelling off as parts of Ottawa are now ‘oversupplied,’ real estate exec says

Apartment rental rates in Ottawa “have peaked” and multi-residential complexes without amenities like on-site parking are “going...

Industrial real estate could bear brunt of tariffs’ impact, local Colliers execs say

Warren Wilkinson, senior managing director of Colliers’ Ottawa office, told a crowd of real estate insiders it’s too early to predict how the trade dispute between Canada and the U.S. will play out for the industry.

Canadian firms could face ‘material decline’ in funding from U.S. VCs, Ottawa consultant says

Ottawa ranked eighth among Canadian cities in overall VC fundraising last year, down from sixth in 2023.

Tariff war has ‘potential to stall a lot’ of new housing construction in Ottawa, industry execs say

Kelly Rhodenizer, senior vice-president of development at Colonnade BridgePort, said Tuesday that with U.S. tariffs imposed on Canadian goods expected to trigger a retaliation from Canada, the cost of everything from appliances to steel rebar will likely go up.

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