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While most Ottawa restaurateurs seem to be on board with the environment-saving measures, some of the new, eco-friendly options are putting them in sticky situations.

Early indications are that the 2022 holiday shopping season will be better than last year, but customers still may not open their wallets as readily as they did pre-pandemic.

David Luxton is quietly confident 2023 will be the year Kwesst Micro Systems graduates from a startup to a mature leader in its field.

The real estate company says the aggregate price in Ottawa will rise to $739,602 by the end of next year, up from an estimated $725,100 this year.

Jennings Real Estate bought the 1.66-acre property just off Riverside Drive near Hunt Club Road from Franco Giammaria and his family, who opened Tudor Hall in the mid-1970s and owned and operated it ever since.

The six-year-old company revealed in October it secured US$30 million in scaleup funding from a group of investors led by New Jersey-based private equity firm Edison Partners. 

Ottawa could see a return to pre-pandemic visitor spending levels as early as next year, a top tourism official said Wednesday as the local industry’s main marketing agency unveiled a 10-year blueprint for attracting more travellers to the National Capital Region.

It marked the ninth consecutive month that home sales in the capital declined compared with a year earlier.

The government’s Digital Ambition program was announced by the Treasury Board in August with the stated goal, “To enable delivery of government in the digital age for all Canadians.