Housing starts in Ottawa-Gatineau soar 154% in August: CMHC
Builders in Ottawa began work on 1,619 new homes last month, a whopping 167 per cent increase over a year earlier, while new starts in
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Senators turn to veteran executive Weir to fill senior role at new community foundation
The longtime Ottawa resident spent more than a decade in communications and marketing posts with the new foundation’s predecessor, the Ottawa Senators Foundation.
Porter delays restarting flights again; plans to resume service in November
Airline said extension of mandatory quarantine order for travellers entering or returning to Canada, continued border closures and the ongoing Atlantic Canada travel bubble, were
Developer plans 29-storey apartment highrise at Holland Cross complex
LaSalle Investment Management says it wants to build a 300,000-square-foot tower with 337 rental units and ground-level commercial space.
Bullish execs tout BluMetric’s ‘resilience’ despite Q3 revenue drop
Cleantech firm posted net earnings of $673,000 for the quarter, up $663,000 from the same period last year.
Ottawa-Gatineau’s unemployment rate ticks up to 9.2% in August
Region added nearly 10,000 new positions in August, but employment-seekers returning to the market en masse drove up jobless rate.
Average Ottawa home resale prices approach $600K
A flood of new listings last month did nothing to slow the rapid increase in local home prices, the Ottawa Real Estate Board reported Thursday.
Via Rail restores additional Ottawa routes
Crown corporation adds additional roundtrips between Ottawa and Toronto, as well as between Ottawa and Montreal.
Ottawa’s Domus Building Cleaning sold to B.C. company
Local family-owned enterprise employs more than 400 people and has customers throughout the National Capital Region.
Residents prefer Sparks Street tunnel for STO tramway, survey says
Tunnel one of two options for proposed system connecting Ottawa and Gatineau, along with an above-ground route along Wellington Street.
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