
True North REIT buys downtown Ottawa Narono building in $24.5M deal
A Toronto-based real estate investment trust has purchased an office tower on Laurier Avenue in a bid to beef up its presence in Ottawa’s downtown

True North REIT buys downtown Ottawa Narono building in $24.5M deal
A Toronto-based real estate investment trust has purchased an office tower on Laurier Avenue in a bid to beef up its presence in Ottawa’s downtown

Ottawa-Gatineau housing starts plummet in January amid flurry of ongoing builds
Ottawa-Gatineau builders had so many ongoing projects heading into 2019 that few resources remained to start new builds – thereby driving down the number of

Additional job seekers raise Ottawa-Gatineau unemployment rate to 5.2% in January
Ottawa-Gatineau’s unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 5.2 per cent in January, thanks partly to an increase in the number of people looking for work,

Update: Jeff Leiper, BIA welcome first Ottawa cannabis shop proposed for Wellington West
Ottawa’s first legal pot shop may be coming to Wellington Village. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, the provincial regulator in charge of distributing

Canopy Growth funneling extra cash into investment arm as part of $85M funding round
Canopy Growth Corp. is injecting an additional $30 million in its cannabis investment arm Canopy Rivers, bringing the pot producer’s ownership in the firm up

Ottawa-based Enablence lands US$4M contract following executive shakeup
Fresh off a shakeup that saw Enablence (TSX-V:ENA) install a new CEO and chief financial officer, the struggling optical tech firm announced Thursday it has

City proposes 3% property tax hike, affordable housing funding in 2019 draft budget
Ottawa is looking to close its infrastructure gap more quickly and provide more affordable housing in its 2019 draft budget tabled at Wednesday’s city council

City staff endorse 20-storey second phase of RioCan’s Blair project
Municipal staff are recommending that the city’s planning committee approve a proposed zoning change that would allow a new east-end apartment project near Blair Station,

Who’s winning federal contracts in Ottawa-Gatineau?
A roundup of the largest contracts, standing offers and supply arrangements awarded to firms with a local presence between Jan. 14 to Jan. 18. Inter

January home sales up 16% amid hot Ottawa housing market: OREB
A record accumulation of snow did nothing to put a chill in Ottawa’s red-hot housing market in January. Local realtors sold 820 residential properties last
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