Ottawa

Toronto-based Courage Cookies officially opened its first location in Ottawa at 1130 Wellington St. W. on May 25. It took over the space formerly housed by Sharpfle Waffle, which moved to Mechanicsville.  

Two Algonquin College graduates are preparing to host a conference and launch a new platform next month to help students transition into the business world. 

Built originally as a transportation channel between the city’s core and its outskirts, Merivale Road has evolved into a busy shopping destination. Now, the two councillors who share this diverse strip of asphalt are working together to usher in an era of consistency, symmetry and change for Merivale Road and its many businesses.

As local officials look for ways to breathe new life into Ottawa’s downtown core, U.S. experts are coming up with their own ways to address the same issues. 

A new report analyzing cellphone data shows more people living in downtown Ottawa and more workers returning to the office.

The president of the Treasury Board stood by the federal government’s decision to have civil servants in the office at least three days a week, but called for exemptions to be made where necessary.

A report on Ottawa’s downtown released today by the Ottawa Board of Trade calls for actions that will result in annual economic benefits of more than $1.3 billion, versus a “do-nothing” annual loss of property taxes and other payments of at least $62 million.

Despite dwindling financial support and budget anxieties, this year’s Canadian Tulip Festival ended on a high note, according to executive director Jo Riding. 

Leo Valiquette was a gifted writer and an absolute stickler for procedure and etiquette when interviewing a source, even for a class assignment ...Twenty-five years later, I find myself sitting here trying to apply the same level of detail to his all-too-real obituary.

Though John Naccarato never got to work on the fifth floor of 99 Bank St. after Norton Rose Fulbright moved in November 2023, his smiling portrait watches over one of the office’s board rooms.