OBJ staff

It’s that time of year: the annual Best Ottawa Business Awards (BOBs) are once again accepting nominations for one of the city’s most prestigious business awards programs. 

The Downtown Revitalization Task Force is in the final stages of drafting its long-awaited public report and plans to present its findings next month, according to a spokesperson for the group.

BlackBerry Ltd. says some of its software and services have been chosen for use in a Foxconn-backed electric vehicle consortium.

In a bid to expand its network in Western Canada, Porter Airlines has announced a new route from Ottawa to Edmonton while also marking its first Ottawa-to-Vancouver direct flight.

Asian grocery chain T&T Supermarkets is opening a second location in Ottawa at Hazeldean Mall in Kanata. The store will open in the winter of 2024. 

OBJ’s digital evolution continues this week.

This summer, La Bottega Nicastro is celebrating 100 years since J. Sosa first opened, and the memories could fill an entire shelf of scrapbooks. 

Ottawa-Gatineau’s annual pace of housing starts soared in June, Canada’s housing agency says, part of a nationwide trend that saw the pace of starts post their largest month-over-month increase in a decade.

Mark Marsolais-Nahwegahbow is using coffee to build his company into a social enterprise that brings awareness to issues impacting Indigenous communities.

The average home price in Ottawa fell in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, Royal LePage says.