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Preferred proponents for stage two LRT to be named by end of year: memo

Come December, City staff are expected to reveal their contractors of choice to extend Ottawa’s light-rail transit...

Taking care of business: Making music work in Ottawa

Few people have had a better vantage point from which to witness the maturation of Ottawa’s music...

Algonquin College launches $640,000 skilled trades scholarship with Weston support

Ottawa’s Algonquin College announced a new scholarship this week aimed at plugging a talent gap in the...

Ottawa’s Fleurish Cannabis secures production licence for Kemptville facility

An Ottawa-area pot firm targeting the cannabis industry’s female consumers has secured a production licence from Health...

Melnyk strikes upbeat tone on LeBreton Flats following meeting with Watson

An optimistic-sounding Eugene Melnyk said he’s “very confident” that the RendezVous LeBreton group’s ambitious plan to redevelop...

Orléans chamber approves merger with new Ottawa Board of Trade

The drive to bring Ottawa’s chambers of commerce together under one roof has finally succeeded. After months of...

Ottawa-Gatineau unemployment rate edges up to 4.5%

Bucking a national trend, employers in Ottawa-Gatineau collectively contracted their payrolls for the second straight month in...

Ottawa clothing startup tackling sport hijab and turban market

A new clothing company’s impact is already being felt by recently-arrived Syrian refugees in Ottawa, but the...

Ottawa-area pot firm Canopy Growth to trial medical marijuana treatments for animals

Canadian pets are a few steps closer to getting their paws on pot-based medical treatments in Canada...

Habitat for Humanity welcomes first four families into Orléans homes

When Annie first learned she had been chosen to become a Habitat for Humanity homeowner, she was in the car taking her son, Hunter, to daycare.
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