Ottawa

Ottawa-specific coverage of local business news, including tourism, retail, transportation, city hall and more. Issues related to human resources and philanthropy are often featured.

YOW! Pandemic-born hot sauce expo heats up the capital

Ottawa

More than 1,000 people attended Heating Up The Capital, which featured 35 hot-sauce makers from across the country, including Ottawa.

Tourism may not recover for another two years, foot traffic ‘still missing,’ officials say

Ottawa, Tourism

While tourism officials in Ottawa point to some positives for the summer season, they say the industry may not fully recover to pre-pandemic levels until

Removing GST from new rental construction will make builds more viable, developers say

Ottawa, Real Estate, Residential

The federal government’s plan to remove the GST from the construction of new rental projects will trim thousands of dollars off the cost of building

Rob Imbeault and Heartee bring ‘hyper-local’ to a new level with mushroom-growing op

Ottawa, Insider Only

Tasty treatment: Kinburn entrepreneur sells gourmet mushrooms with medicinal benefits

Ottawa, Top Stories

After a health scare, John Bakker launched a new business venture to grow gourmet mushrooms with medicinal benefits that aren’t easy to find in Ottawa.

Q&A with Oz Drewniak: Office conversions in Ottawa need to be a ‘team effort’

Ottawa, Insider Only

ByWard Market businesses say safety should be priority for new district authority

Ottawa

As the new ByWard Market District Authority prepares to launch next spring, businesses in the area are hoping to see safety made a top priority.

Home sales up year-over-year in August, but ‘further fluctuations’ expected: Ottawa Real Estate Board

Ottawa, Real Estate, Residential, Top Stories

Ottawa’s housing market picked up slightly in August compared with a year earlier, but the leader of the city’s real estate board warned more fluctuations

Ottawa Tourism offers one-time ‘emergency’ funding for major festivals

Ottawa, Top Stories, Tourism

As festivals and events in the city continue to recover from the pandemic, Ottawa Tourism has announced it will provide one-time emergency financial support.

National Capital Region’s unemployment rate ticks up to 4.8% in August: StatCan

Ottawa

Ottawa-Gatineau’s unemployment rate rose again in August as the region’s workforce continued to grow faster than the number of new jobs, Statistics Canada said Friday.