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.
After stints as a senior executive at two of the tech industry’s biggest global players, Luc Levesque is pausing to take a well-deserved break for a bit of play himself.
Four Ottawa facilities are among 13 sites in Canada that will test next-generation defence and security technologies developed by companies from around the world as part of a new NATO program.
The federal government’s proposal to turn a two-and-a-half-acre site across from Parliament Hill into an office and retail complex is a “great start” toward revitalizing the Parliamentary Precinct, a prominent Ottawa real estate executive said Friday – but other business leaders say they’re not convinced the project will give struggling downtown merchants the boost they need.
In an email to OBJ this week, PSPC called the Block 2 redevelopment project “a “key part” of the federal government’s efforts “to restore and modernize” the Parliamentary Precinct.