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.

To build or not to build? Highrise developers rethink projects in face of soaring costs

Residential

Firms say a number of factors – including soaring inflation, rising interest rates and new city fees – are causing them to re-evaluate plans for

Park this: Business owners push back on parking fee hike scheme

Ottawa

The debate over downtown parking fees comes as the issue of revitalizing Ottawa’s COVID-battered core is taking centre stage among many business leaders.

KPMG Law turns to well-known Ottawa lawyer to head up new practice

Ottawa

Affiliate of professional services firm KPMG announced Thursday that Adam Aptowitzer has joined it as national leader of its new charitable and not-for-profit practice.

Veteran finance executive Julie Morin stepping down as CFO of Minto Apartment REIT

Residential

Ottawa’s 2020 CFO of the Year, who helped guide the REIT through a $230-million IPO in 2018, will retain her other role as chief financial

Rock solid: Cleantech trailblazer Giatec Scientific nabs $5M in fresh funding to fuel foreign expansion

Techopia

It’s the latest major capital injection for the Ottawa software firm, which brought German building materials powerhouse HeidelbergCement on board as a minority investor earlier

‘Offline retail is all the way back’: Shopify launches new point-of-sale system in bid to kickstart growth

Techopia

POS Go is a mobile unit equipped with a built-in barcode scanner that lets merchants check out items anywhere in the store.

Tablz serves up new income stream for restaurants looking to cash in on premium seats

Techopia

Ottawa startup’s platform that allows customers to take 3D online walkthroughs of restaurants and pay extra to reserve specific tables is now in use in

City needs to ‘get serious’ about revitalizing downtown core, task force co-chair says

Ottawa

“There are no easy answers here,” Claridge Homes executive Neil Malhotra says of what it will take to encourage more residents to live, work and

Bug-detection software firm Noibu top local entry on Globe and Mail’s fastest-growing companies list

Ottawa

It’s the first appearance on the list for Noibu, which placed second in OBJ’s fastest-growing companies competition earlier this year.

BluWave-ai’s software takes centre stage at solar-powered Bryan Adams concert

Techopia

In a North American first, Ottawa cleantech firm helped power Canadian rocker’s evening show in Summerside, P.E.I., that was run entirely on solar energy.