
Ottawa business property taxes exceed national average: Altus Group
Despite trending downwards over the past decade, Ottawa’s commercial property tax rates remain among the highest in Canada, a recent report says. In its Canadian

Ottawa business property taxes exceed national average: Altus Group
Despite trending downwards over the past decade, Ottawa’s commercial property tax rates remain among the highest in Canada, a recent report says. In its Canadian

Who’s winning government work in Ottawa and Gatineau?
Calian Ltd. 340 Legget Dr. Description: Medical advisory services Buyer: DND $275,000,000 Calian Ltd. 340 Legget Dr. Description: Nursing care services Buyer: RCMP $18,600,000

Canopy Growth enters Jamaica’s ‘world-class’ medicinal cannabis market
Canada’s largest cannabis producer is expanding to the “renowned sun, soil and water of Jamaica” thanks to a new strategic partnership with an island grower.

Video: Ottawa’s sewer tunnel boring machine readied for big dig
A giant rock-carving machine will soon be rumbling beneath city streets as a massive sewage storage tunnel takes shape. The city said this week that

Entrepreneurial lessons: Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke on his first sale
Shopify co-founder and CEO Tobi Lütke didn’t set out at first to build an e-commerce giant. A decade and a half ago, he was new

Ottawa chef Matthew Carmichael reveals addiction struggles, admits sexual harassment
After coming clean about a past involving addiction and sexual harassment, the co-owner and chef behind many popular Ottawa restaurants says he’s handed over management

Ottawa ranks highly on housing affordability: Century 21 survey
House and condo buyers in Canada’s capital are getting more home for their real estate dollar, a new survey has found. Century 21 Canada recently

Ottawa’s Thermal Energy keeps Q1 revenues rising coming off hot 2017
Local clean-tech firm reported revenue growth and a strong order backlog for its first quarter of fiscal 2018.

Federal contracts: R.E. Hein Construction wins $1.6M job at Tunney’s Pasture
The federal government has awarded an Ottawa contraction firm a $1.6-million contract to bring the emergency systems inside a Health Canada lab at Tunney’s Pasture

Calian’s Kevin Ford named CEO of the Year
After leading one of Ottawa’s largest publicly traded corporations through a string of acquisitions, its largest contract win in its 35-year history and a record $275
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