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Feds, province to give local school boards $57M for COVID-related safety upgrades

Projects could include renovating HVAC systems, installing water bottle refilling stations to boost access to safe drinking water and reconfiguring rooms with new walls and doors.

Low-cost airline Flair to launch Ottawa-Kelowna routes this summer

Airline's plans to connect Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax and Toronto to the capital were put on hold last year due to the pandemic.

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 2021.

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.
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