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.

Opinion: Jim Treliving and the art of the deal

Ottawa

Jim Treliving was just a young lad, growing up beneath the big sky of the Canadian Prairies, when he got his first lesson in business.

Opinion: The Indians are coming … wait, they’re already here

Ottawa

You’ve probably been hearing a lot lately about the Indian firm Tata, that country’s largest multinational company and mega-brand. No doubt some of you first

Opinion: An expensive delay?

Retail

A new public garage should ease a parking shortage around the Rideau Centre in time for the Christmas shopping season, but the builders may face

Opinion: Hammering out a ‘free trait’ agreement

Ottawa

When noted former Harvard University lecturer and psychology expert Brian Little gave the keynote at a big human resources event last week, he likely couldn’t

Opinion: It’s a dog’s life … in our fair city

Ottawa

My girlfriend and I were faced with a major business problem earlier this week, and I’m going to be frank with you: for a while,

Opinion: The NCC: Steward or greedy landowner?

Ottawa

There’s something exhilarating about living in the National Capital Region, where one is often compelled to stickhandle through more layers of government in an afternoon

Passing on Public Works

Ottawa

For months, MPs have heard a message repeated by representatives from a variety of sectors: the hassles that come along with selling to Public Works

Opinion: Why Scotiabank Place is in Kanata

Sports and Entertainment

I can’t speak to the issue of what we should do with Lansdowne Park or whether a snow dump in Kanata should be the home

Opinion: Slow sales? Here’s a solution

Ottawa

I recently managed to scoop up one of those Nintendo Wii gaming systems to give as a Christmas present, and to be perfectly honest I’m