Peter Kovessy

Ottawa Business Journal

Made in Ottawa: Rimikon lights up the capital

Techopia

Despite their ubiquity in homes and offices around the world, traditional light bulbs come with significant drawbacks: Toxic components, limited lifespan, electrical shock hazards and,

Ottawa’s Embassy West retirement home eyes expansion with new towers

Residential

The owners of an Ottawa retirement residence are asking the city to ease height restrictions on the property, located on Carling Avenue near Highway 417,

Ottawa business helps rebuild Nepal, one cashmere wrap at a time

Retail

An Ottawa cashmere company is selling scarves and wraps in this country that help to rebuild classrooms in Nepal. By Ryan Tumilty Corala Cashmere – the

Ottawa ad agency wants you to ditch your boring out-of-office message

Ottawa

As Christmas creeps closer, outgoing emails increasingly trigger automated out-of-office replies containing standardized, boilerplate messages that most of us scan over at best. McMillan wants

World of Mocha? Second Cup leases prominent West Wellington retail space

Retail

Second Cup will construct one of its new café concept stores in the former World of Maps storefront on Wellington Street West as the Canadian

Elections Canada looking to buy 85,000 ballot boxes, other supplies

Ottawa

Canada’s next federal election may still be some three years away, but Elections Canada is ramping up its local purchasing of ballot boxes, voting screens

Swelling federal payroll in Ottawa-Gatineau pushes employment to record high

Ottawa

The federal government’s local hiring binge continued for a second straight month, pushing the number of people working in Ottawa-Gatineau to an all-time high, Statistics

Ottawa Hospital rejects Tunney’s Pasture for new Civic site

Ottawa

The Ottawa Hospital says its board has unanimously rejected a recommendation to construct a new Civic campus at Tunney’s Pasture. The statement from the Ottawa

uOttawa gives students ‘a taste for entrepreneurship’ with new co-op program

Ottawa

Daniel Laframboise doesn’t hesitate when asked what excites him about the prospect of becoming an entrepreneur. “What if you see someone walking down the street

Update: NCC to start negotiating LeBreton Flats redevelopment with Senators-backed group

Ottawa

One of Ottawa’s largest urban redevelopment projects took a major step forward on Thursday morning, but the start of construction still remains more than a