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Renfrew County tour operator looks to urban customers seeking city escapes following pandemic

'(If) you lose the summer, you’ve lost your whole year.'

Ottawa Tourism in line for $5.2M to help ‘bring visitors back to the National Capital Region’

Ottawa’s main tourism marketing agency will receive millions of dollars in federal funding as part of a...

Coping with COVID-19: Behind the headlines

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City council approves urban boundary expansion

Mayor says vote balances 'competing demands and interests that come from governing a fast-growing city.'

Porter defers resumption of flights until July 29

Airline had planned to resume flights on June 29.

Ottawa poised to dodge housing slump in 2020, research group says

In a study released this week, the Real Estate Investment Network predicts Ottawa will be the only one of the five major Canadian markets it surveyed that will avoid a housing slump in 2020.

Feds ask Ottawa’s consulting heavyweights to help chart COVID-19 economic recovery

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada looking for contractor to spark 'big ideas'

Ottawa’s Tetra Bio-Pharma closes $9.2M public offering

Funds will be used to advance the company’s work on QIXLEEF, a therapy to treat uncontrolled pain in advanced cancer patients that’s in the late-phase drug development stage.

Coping with COVID-19: Behind the Headlines

Michael Curran speaks with OBJ editors David Sali and Peter Kovessy about some of the week’s biggest stories and how Ottawa’s business community is adapting to the ongoing economic challenges.