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.

Free Form Fitness owner sells Ottawa firm to flex entrepreneurial muscle

Ottawa

Two years ago, Free Form Fitness founder Jean-Luc Boissonneault told OBJ he’d “love to start a whole bunch of businesses.” A tireless entrepreneur with a

Use arts scene to attract workers, Ottawa group urges

Ottawa

As a growing number of businesses confront what they perceive as a shortage of skilled workers in Canada’s capital, an association representing the city’s festivals

Tartan Homes founder Wes Nicol ‘left his mark’ as champion of Ottawa entrepreneurship

Ottawa

When entrepreneur Wes Nicol addressed students at Carleton University’s convocation ceremony in 2006, he offered words of wisdom that couldn’t have been more appropriate coming

Get more back at tax time: Donate by December 31

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As 2016 comes to a close and holiday shopping is in full swing, another important deadline looms: making your charitable donations. If you give to a

Airport Sell-off: Bad for Passengers and Communities

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Since the 1990s, Canada’s major airports have been operating as private, not-for-profit self-sustaining businesses. Today, airports contribute over $1 billion a year in rent and

InsideTrack.show: Shirley Westeinde speaks on ‘Just being yourself’

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At first glance, Shirley Westeinde appears to be an eloquent, fashionable and unassuming. After a little digging, it becomes apparent that not only is she

Swelling federal payroll in Ottawa-Gatineau pushes employment to record high

Ottawa

The federal government’s local hiring binge continued for a second straight month, pushing the number of people working in Ottawa-Gatineau to an all-time high, Statistics

Hospital, politicians pick Carling Building site for new Civic campus in Ottawa

Ottawa

The Ottawa Hospital and local politicians say they’ve reached a compromise on the location of a new Civic Campus. Officials said Friday morning that the

Canopy to buy fellow Canadian pot producer Mettrum in $430M all-stock deal

Ottawa

Ottawa-area marijuana producer Canopy Growth Corp. (TSX:CGC) is offering to buy Mettrum Health Corp. (TSXV:MT) in a friendly all-stock deal valued at $430 million. Mettrum

Opinion: Ottawa’s got talent – but it needs the right skills

Ottawa

Talent is the raw material for the new industrial age. It is also global and very mobile. By Jeffrey Dale Neither Ottawa nor Canada has a