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.
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Colonnade BridgePort taps real estate veteran Andrew Blair to head fund management business

Virica Biotech’s viral vector-boosting technology gets $790K shot in the arm

While about three-quarters of Virica’s 50 customers are gene therapy producers, founder and CEO Jean-Simon Diallo says his firm’s technology also accelerates the production of vaccines.

Ottawa faces ‘multi-whammy’ of challenges as it looks to reimagine its downtown, urban expert says

This week’s public-service job walkout adds to the list of challenges Ottawa faces as its economy tries to rebound from the pandemic and it looks to reimagine city space, a prominent urban planning expert says.

Demand for rental units pushes Ottawa housing starts to all-time high in 2022: CMHC

Builders in Ottawa launched 11,032 new housing units last year, an eight per cent increase from 2021, the national housing agency says in its latest Housing Supply Report released Wednesday.

Ottawa developer proposes nine-storey housing complex for Lowertown site

The proposed structure – which is located north of Rideau Street about 700 metres from the Rideau LRT station and less than 200 metres from several bus stops – would have one level of underground parking with space for 40 cars and 482 bicycles. 

Ericsson Canada to grow Kanata workforce as part of $470M partnership with feds

The project is supposed to create and provide training for hundreds of jobs in Kanata and Montreal, while establishing Canada as one of Ericsson's global research and development hubs.

Taggart Group floats plan to replace historic Kent Street office building with 30-storey tower

Ottawa-based real estate company says it does not intend to redevelop the property, which it purchased about a dozen years ago, for at least another decade.

Sparks Street biz group no fan of feds’ offer to take over Sparks, Wellington streets

The head of a prominent downtown business organization says the federal government’s offer to take over a stretch of Wellington Street and keep it closed to motorized vehicles should be a no-go.

Professional services firm TAAG acquires marketing agency gordongroup

By bringing a well-established marketing agency under its umbrella, the organization better known as TAAG joins a growing number of professional services firms that are stretching beyond their accounting roots into other fields of business.

Hexo sale part of ‘inevitable’ consolidation push in crowded cannabis sector: Experts

Deal marks the end of the line as an independent entity for the Gatineau firm that was launched in 2013 under the name Hydropothecary and later became the subject of an award-winning book that chronicled the lives of founders Adam Miron and Sebastien St-Louis.
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