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City looks to relax infill housing restrictions

Changes would reduce the minimum required lot sizes and raise the four-unit cap that currently applies in some Ottawa neighbourhoods.

Feds pledge $168M for Gladstone Avenue affordable housing projects

Funds will go toward the construction of 698 residential units in four separate buildings at 811, 818 and 933 Gladstone Ave.

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 Gatineau also rose.

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 “key factors” in its decision to press pause on the restart.

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...

Via Rail restores additional Ottawa routes

Crown corporation adds additional roundtrips between Ottawa and Toronto, as well as between Ottawa and Montreal.

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