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Parliament Hill skating rink to cap off Canada 150 festivities in Ottawa

Tourism

Tourists and residents will be able to play shinny and skate a lap on Parliament Hill in December, as the government announced plans Thursday to

Ottawa-area pot producer Canopy Growth developing up to 3M sq. ft. of B.C. growing capacity

Ottawa

Canopy Growth Corp. (TSX:WEED) says it will develop up to three million square feet of greenhouse growing capacity in British Columbia, more than doubling Canada’s

Ontario colleges, including Algonquin and La Cite, brace for strike

Ottawa

The union representing faculty at Ontario’s 24 public colleges has set a strike deadline of 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 16. The Ontario Public Service Employees

Who’s winning government contracts in Ottawa and Gatineau?

Ottawa

Lesage & Turgeon Electric 739 St-Joseph Blvd. Description: Fit-up of 6th and 7th floor Buyer: PWGSC $3,807,735 The Canadian Corps of Commissionaires 100 Gloucester

Ottawa councillor accuses infill developers of ‘circumventing’ planning process

City Hall

An Ottawa municipal councillor is accusing the city of allowing developers to circumvent normal approval process to add extra density to new developments. During a

Energy Ottawa celebrates gas-to-energy milestone at Trail Road landfill

OBJ360 Sponsored, Ottawa

At the Trail Road landfill in south Ottawa, one resident’s trash becomes another person’s energy. 2017 marks the 10-year anniversary of the site’s landfill gas-to-energy

Free Form Fitness founder puts entrepreneurial muscle behind new incubator

Ottawa

After selling the chain of fitness boutiques he founded a decade ago, Jean-Luc Boissonneault spent most of this year travelling the world and trying to

Ottawa-Gatineau employment hits 12-month low

Ottawa

The number of people working in the National Capital Region sunk to its lowest level in a year last month as tech, government and tourism

Ottawa’s Sprott School of Business to get new home in $48M Wes Nicol Building

Ottawa

Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business will be getting a state-of-the-art, 100,000-square-foot new home in the heart of campus as early as 2020, the school

Op-ed: Why Ottawa needs a ‘job policy’

City Hall

The city’s new head of planning and economic development knows that a one-size-fits-all approach to planning and infrastructure makes no sense. As part of his