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.

The Bright Side of Business: Africa World Market celebrates two decades of growth and expansions

Ottawa

Starting with a small downtown shop, the family-run enterprise now includes two thriving stores

Podcast: A fresh Forty Under 40 class, Bryden’s new waste-to-energy tech, Eastern Ontario tourism investments

Ottawa, Ottawa Business Journal Podcast

Watch on YouTube or listen on Spotify, SoundCloud and other audio platforms.

Ottawa SMEs to receive free rapid COVID-19 testing kits

Ottawa

Any local business with 150 or fewer employees will be eligible to receive the tests through the Ottawa Board of Trade.

Airport will take years to recover from ‘devastating’ 2020, CEO says at annual meeting

Tourism

Ottawa International Airport Authority CEO Mark Laroche didn’t sugar-coat the impact of the pandemic on the facility’s bottom line.

Ottawa-Gatineau’s jobless rate ticks up to 6.7% in April

Ottawa

While the region’s economy added 7,600 jobs, the labour force also jumped by an additional 10,200 as more people resumed their search for work, Statistics

OBJ: December 1996

Ottawa

OC Transpo boss Manconi to retire in September

City Hall

Longtime city employee became a familiar face as he oversaw construction of the $2.1-billion Confederation Line.

From lawyers to landlords, Ottawa entrepreneurs continue to rush into increasingly crowded cannabis retail market

Ottawa

With more than 100 cannabis shops either operating or poised to open, business owners are looking further outside Ottawa’s core to ‘underserved’ markets