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Winning strategy? Tourism industry hopes sporting events can be a game-changer

Insider Only Ottawa, Sports and Entertainment, Tourism

Ottawa-Gatineau’s unemployment rate rises to 4.3% in June

Ottawa

Ottawa-Gatineau’s unemployment rate rose slightly in June as a spike in the number of people looking for work more than offset new job creation. The

FigBytes named one of Canada’s fastest-growing sustainable companies

Ottawa, Techopia

FigBytes came in at No. 15 on Corporate Knights’ second annual list of the country’s 25 fastest-growing “green” private companies, the firm announced Thursday.

Katasa St. Laurent Boulevard development

Katasa plans pair of residential highrise towers on St. Laurent Boulevard

Ottawa, Real Estate, Residential

Katasa Group, which recently filed plans to replace a Centretown medical building with an apartment complex, wants to construct two highrises on St. Laurent Boulevard

‘It’s been a hell of a three years’: Sueling Ching

Ottawa

Sueling Ching discusses the rising costs, the downtown core, and how Ottawa’s new municipal government can help businesses grow.

Barrhaven officials look to establish community as more than a ‘sleepy suburb’

Ottawa, Top Stories

As one of the province’s fastest-growing suburbs, Barrhaven is more than a bedroom community and has a lot to offer residents and businesses, officials say.

Ottawa home sales up again in June, prices hold steady: OREB

Ottawa, Real Estate, Residential

Home sales in the capital rose year-over-year in June, but prices held steady as the city’s resale housing supply keeps “trending in the right direction,”

Landlords, tenants ‘still figuring things out’ as downtown Ottawa’s office vacancy rate rises above 15%

Ottawa, Non-Residential, Real Estate

Ottawa’s office vacancy rate continued to climb in the second quarter, CBRE said in its latest Canadian market report, with the downtown office vacancy rate

Chinatown BIA efforts at revitalization thwarted by crime, drug use, racism

Ottawa

Between an increase in drug use, rising crime and continued racism, Ottawa’s Chinatown has not recovered from the pandemic – in fact, according to at

Dress for hybrid work success: Five fashion tips for the new work world

Ottawa, Human Resources

The pandemic led to some bizarre fluctuations in fashion. Local stylist Michelle Leblanc has some tips for hybrid workers who aren’t quite sure how to