OBJ staff

Food for thought: Algonquin to launch four-year culinary arts degree program

Ottawa

School says new offering will “combine skills for those who want to wear a lab coat and a chef’s coat, and is well suited for

Toronto’s Marlin Spring acquires three Ottawa retirement homes from Revera

Residential

Deals are part of real estate firm’s bid to expand its portfolio of retirement residences across North America.

Here are Ottawa’s 2021 Forty Under 40 recipients

Forty Under 40

Joint initiative of OBJ and the Ottawa Board of Trade is widely recognized as the region’s most sought-after business award for people under the age

Minto Apartment REIT loans sister firm $50M for Beechwood project

Residential

Minto Properties will construct the nine-storey building with about 230 rental suites at a one-acre site on Beechwood Avenue, and the REIT will have the

Wills Transfer acquires Carp-based Orange Logistics Centres

Eastern Ontario Business Journal

Smiths Falls company continues to expand its eastern Ontario footprint with latest deal.

New city bylaw to limit short-term rentals to 10 guests

City Hall

Change is part of new rules aimed at more tightly regulating properties rented out on Airbnb and similar platforms.

Committee green-lights plan to seek public feedback on small biz tax cut

City Hall

The change would cut property taxes by 10 per cent at about 4,700 commercial properties housing nearly 8,000 small businesses in Ottawa.

Podcast: Shopify’s C-suite shakeup, hot cottage market and ‘turning dirty air into dollars’

Ottawa, Ottawa Business Journal Podcasts

Listen on Spotify or Soundcloud, or watch the video on OBJ’s YouTube channel.

Joint city committee backs stricter rules on short-term rentals

Tourism

New bylaw would restrict short-term rentals on Airbnb and other similar platforms to a host’s primary residence.

Kingston’s Spectra Plasmonics pilots rapid tests to find ‘fingerprints’ of toxic contaminants in street drugs

Eastern Ontario Business Journal

The firm’s drug analysis system identifies the unique chemical ‘fingerprints’ of various substances and can detect the presence of dangerous contaminants such as fentanyl.