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Carleton surpasses $300M fundraising goal, president tells Mayor’s Breakfast

Ottawa

Carleton University has raised more than $300 million with a few months still to go in its Collaborate Campaign, the school’s president announced on Tuesday.

LRT consortium CEO ‘confident’ in March 31 handover, but city transit boss ‘highly skeptical’

City Hall

The head of the consortium constructing Ottawa’s light-rail transit line said Tuesday he’s “confident” the system will be ready to be handed over to the

Ottawa entrepreneur fielding global demand for hand-held skate sharpener

Ottawa

Stittsville entrepreneur Tim Maxwell’s business is all about giving customers an edge over their competition. Or, more precisely, two edges. Maxwell, a graduate of Carleton

Additional job seekers raise Ottawa-Gatineau unemployment rate to 5.2% in January

Ottawa

Ottawa-Gatineau’s unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 5.2 per cent in January, thanks partly to an increase in the number of people looking for work,

Feds award design contract for $60 billion warship fleet to Lockheed Martin

Defence and Security

The federal government is awarding a long-awaited contract to design its $60-billion fleet of warships to U.S. defence giant Lockheed Martin. Procurement Minister Carla Qualtrough

Update: Jeff Leiper, BIA welcome first Ottawa cannabis shop proposed for Wellington West

Retail

Ottawa’s first legal pot shop may be coming to Wellington Village. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, the provincial regulator in charge of distributing

Canopy Growth funneling extra cash into investment arm as part of $85M funding round

Ottawa

Canopy Growth Corp. is injecting an additional $30 million in its cannabis investment arm Canopy Rivers, bringing the pot producer’s ownership in the firm up

Former Ottawa Centre MP Paul Dewar leaves message of optimism in death

Ottawa

Paul Dewar, a community leader and former MP Ottawa, died Wednesday after contending with brain cancer for a year

Lockheed Martin’s Ottawa-made tech tapped for navy’s joint support ships

Defence and Security

The Vancouver-based shipbuilder tasked with providing Canada’s navy with a new fleet of support ships is turning to a defence giant’s local operations to power

City proposes 3% property tax hike, affordable housing funding in 2019 draft budget

City Hall

Ottawa is looking to close its infrastructure gap more quickly and provide more affordable housing in its 2019 draft budget tabled at Wednesday’s city council