Ottawa Business Journal

CENGN on display at Dusseldorf conference

Techopia

Officials from Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks are in Dusseldorf, Germany, this week, where they will unveil some of the facility’s commercialization

Work begins on $232M tunnel project to combat Ottawa’s sewage overflow

City Hall

Major Ottawa-area politicians from all levels of government gathered at the banks of the Ottawa River Tuesday for an announcement confirming that funding is lined

Algonquin College to build $44.9M indigenous entrepreneurship centre

Ottawa

Algonquin College says it plans to construct a new learning centre and Institute for Indigenous Entrepreneurship featuring a makerspace for students to experiment with technology

Ottawa education SaaS firm GenM training millennials for the realities of post-grad workforce

Ottawa

Moe Abbas saw the same problem with a lot of the talent that was joining his startup team, Bumpn. Namely, the graduates he hired were

University of Ottawa files plans for new six-storey academic complex

Construction

The University of Ottawa has filed development plans for its next large-scale construction project, a new science, technology, engineering and math building planned for the

Terry Matthews to co-chair Algonquin College entrepreneurship panel

Techopia

Sir Terry Matthews – you know, the serial entrepreneur and the force behind Wesley Clover, which helps fund L-Spark, Martello, Better Software and a whole bunch of incredibly successful startups

Rental apartments driving uptick in Ottawa new home construction

Residential

Renewed interest in rental apartments among developers is helping to accelerate the pace of new home construction in the nation’s capital, the country’s housing agency

Busy streets in the Glebe as shops stay open on holiday Monday

Retail

The Glebe along Bank Street looked busy with foot traffic on Thanksgiving Day, likely owing to the recent OMB ruling allowing the neighbourhood’s shops to remain open

Feds ban new embassies along Sussex Drive in Ottawa

Ottawa

The federal government is forbidding the construction of new embassies on Ottawa’s Sussex Drive following a stark RCMP assessment of the potential for “violent events”

Michael Potter named Ottawa’s 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient

Ottawa

Michael Potter has held many titles in his career: Chief executive, Philanthropist of the Year and even Honorary Colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force.