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Ottawa-based firm reels in $182M deal with Royal Canadian Navy

Contract is for six years plus an option for six more.

Ottawa-Gatineau’s unemployment rate falls to 8.1% in October as labour force shrinks

Region’s economy shed some 2,700 net jobs last month, Statistics Canada says.

Kingston boat manufacturer wins $7.2M Coast Guard contract

MetalCraft Marine Inc. will build 24 barges as part of federal government's $1.5-billion Oceans Protection Plan.

OREB eyes ‘shift’ away from condos as home sales keep booming in October

While sales of condominiums rose 22 per cent year-over-year to 481, the number of new units added to the market jumped 70 per cent compared with October 2019.

Pomerleau wins contract to construct new British High Commission building

The $35-million project to replace the existing U.K. diplomatic headquarters at 80 Elgin St. is expected to be completed in 2022.

2020 Best Ottawa Business Awards recipients revealed

List of this year's best in Ottawa business includes a massive real estate deal, several up-and-coming tech firms and Canada’s most valuable publicly traded company.

RioCan sells 50% stake in Westgate apartment development

Deal equates to $51 per square foot of buildable gross floor area and is part of a larger divestment of its interest in Ontario real estate projects to Woodbourne Capital Management. 

Minto Apartment REIT’s Julie Morin named Ottawa’s CFO of the Year

Veteran executive played a key role in the creation of a real estate investment trust now valued at $2 billion.

Nine-storey mixed-use building part of developer’s proposed new Stittsville subdivision

Plan calls for 175-unit condo complex with retail space on the ground floor as well as hundreds of other condos, townhomes and single-detached dwellings at Hazeldean Road site.

Ottawa commercial tax rates remain among Canada’s highest: Altus Group

Firm says businesses in Ottawa pay an estimated $26.64 in property taxes per $1,000 of a property’s assessed value, the fourth-highest rate among country's major cities.
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