
Shepherds of Good Hope submits plan for new mixed-use ByWard Market facility
Mid-rise building on Murray Street would include a drop-in centre, soup kitchen and 48 supportive housing units for chronically homeless residents.

Shepherds of Good Hope submits plan for new mixed-use ByWard Market facility
Mid-rise building on Murray Street would include a drop-in centre, soup kitchen and 48 supportive housing units for chronically homeless residents.

Ottawa-Gatineau jobless rate holds steady at 6.5% in March
Employers added nearly 8,000 new jobs to their payrolls last month, StatsCan says, but those gains were offset by more people looking for work.

That’s rich: Shopify’s Lütke Canada’s second-wealthiest person, Forbes says
Mitel founder Terry Matthews and Claridge Homes CEO Bill Malhotra are also members of the billionaires’ club.
‘We’ve simply run out of time’: Bluesfest cancelled for second straight year
While this year’s festival won’t be happening, Bluesfest boss Mark Monahan said Rage Against the Machine has already been confirmed as a headliner for 2022.

Ottawa home sales surge 50% in March: OREB
Average sale price for a residential-class property was $758,802, an increase of 35% from a year ago.

Ottawa’s office vacancy rate continues to climb in Q1, hits 9.6%: CBRE
City’s downtown vacancy rate jumped from 9.5 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2020 to 10.7 per cent in the first three months of

Longtime J.L. Richards & Associates executive Guy Cormier retires
University of Ottawa engineering grad joined the company in 1984 and was named CEO in 2012.

Bridgehead sales down 30% in 2020, parent company says
Ottawa-based coffee chain says it’s still going ahead with its planned new location at Carleton University this fall.


Taggart revives plan for nine-storey apartment complex in Little Italy
Proposal calls for 127 units on Norman Street, just west of Preston Street, as part of company’s bid to build ‘a portfolio of high-quality rental
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