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‘I think I can help’: Local communications professional volunteers to assist beleaguered tulip festival

Ottawa, Tourism

As the Canadian Tulip Festival tries to stay afloat among financial worries, one local professional has volunteered to run communications for the organization and hopes

Ottawa gets $37.5M from province to reward ‘substantial progress’ on 2023 housing target

Ottawa

Ottawa will receive $37.5 million from the province in recognition of the “substantial progress” the city has made toward its 2023 housing target by breaking

Ottawa housing rebound continues as sales, prices rise in March: OREB

Ottawa, Real Estate, Residential

OREB said 1,165 homes changed hands last month. A total of 2,678 homes were sold in Ottawa through the first three months of 2024, a

Region’s unemployment rate jumps to 4.8% in March as local economy sheds jobs

Ottawa, Human Resources

Canada’s unemployment rate jumped to 6.1 per cent in March as more people looked for work, Statistics Canada reported Friday.

Ottawa home prices expected to approach 2022 levels by end of year: CMHC

Ottawa, Real Estate, Residential

Ottawa home prices are expected to approach peak levels last seen in 2022 by the end of this year before climbing to new highs by

Demand for small-bay space continues to fuel Ottawa industrial market, brokerage firms say

Ottawa, Non-Residential, Real Estate

Tenants continued to snap up smaller industrial spaces at a steady clip in the first quarter of 2024, new figures show. The city’s industrial availability

Wife of former Sens player Radek Bonk teams up with local designer to open luxury furniture store in Stittsville

Ottawa

Turning 50 next month was a big enough milestone to motivate Jill Bonk and Jennifer Miller to double-down on a goal they’d set for themselves

Why Ottawa’s office vacancy rate might not be quite what it seems

Insider Only Non-Residential, Ottawa, Real Estate

District Realty to convert Elgin Street office building to residential units

Ottawa, Real Estate

District Realty plans to redevelop an 11-storey office building at 200 Elgin St. into a multi-residential complex, real estate firms CBRE and Colliers said in

CFIB looks for good news on carbon tax for small businesses in upcoming federal budget

Ottawa

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business is calling on the federal government to freeze the federal carbon tax and assess the possibility of implementing a