Ottawa Business Journal

Getting the most for your legal dollars in small claims court

Expert Blogs, OBJ360 Sponsored, Ottawa, Sponsored

The Small Claims Court process is meant to be a streamlined, easy to navigate process that is friendly to self-represented parties. Unfortunately, the process often

Ottawa home resales up 2% in October

Residential

Ottawa home resales inched up in October as the local market continued a strong second half of 2013, the Ottawa Real Estate Board announced Tuesday.

Familiar is Not the Same as Safe

Expert Blogs, OBJ360 Sponsored, Real Estate, Sponsored

I was having a chat with an investor the other day, and he told me about a strategy he and his wife had hit on,

Housing sales to increase then taper off in middle of next year: CMHC

Residential

Ottawa housing sales are going to rise over the next few months before slowing down again in mid-2014 due to an expected increase in mortgage

Opinion: All quiet on the 2017 front as Leeder laments slow pace of 150th plans

Sports and Entertainment

In less than four years, it will be time to celebrate Canada’s sesquicentennial – or, to put it in plainer language, the nation’s 150th birthday.

U.S. outlet mall to take a little from everybody: Bayshore exec

Non-Residential

A large U.S. outlet mall’s expansion into Ottawa is going to hurt all local retailers once it arrives next year, the executive responsible for Bayshore

Ottawa spared from Lockheed Martin layoffs

Defence and Security

Ottawa employees will not be included among the layoffs announced this week at multinational defence firm Lockheed Martin, a company spokesman said Tuesday. The

MMM Group gets $1M contract for 417 overpass design work

Construction

The MMM Group, an international engineering firm with offices in Ottawa, has won a contract with the government of Ontario to replace the overpass structure

Opinion: The apprentice programmer

Techopia

I dropped out of school when I was 16 years old. By Tobi Lütke. School was not for me. To me, computers were so much

Federal cuts to take seven years to hit local office market

Non-Residential

Local landlords won’t know the full effect of federal downsizing efforts until at least 2020, one of the government’s top real estate officials said Thursday.