Ottawa Business Journal

Detailed vs. flat rate: New way to claim work from home costs gives workers options

The new flat rate method is quick and easy, but using the detailed method may yield a better outcome, depending on your circumstances

Ottawa building contractors roll out new procedures to respond to evolving demands

Non-Residential

Cleaning firms, security personnel and tradespeople all adapt to new reality

Sky Regional to shut down at the end of March after losing contract with Air Canada

Canada & World

Company becomes the first domestic scheduled airline to permanently shut down since the start of the pandemic.

Ottawa home prices soar in February as sales hit record heights

Residential

The average price of a residential-class property jumped 27 per cent to nearly $720,000 last month compared with February 2020.

Feds give Outaouais region’s ‘buzzing’ cybersecurity sector $3M boost

Techopia

Funding for three Gatineau-based organizations is expected to add 30 jobs to the local economy.

Ottawa’s Kaminski family sells stake in fast-growing agricultural fund to Montreal firm

Ottawa

Launched in 2009, Bonnefield now manages more than 134,000 acres of agricultural land worth nearly $1 billion, up from 110,000 acres valued at $750 million

Cornwall’s SigmaPoint Technologies gets $1M federal boost

Eastern Ontario Business Journal

Manufacturer says it plans to use the loan to add to its team of 370 employees and acquire real-time analytics technology to boost its production

Bluesfest, GCTC among local attractions to land provincial arts funding

Sports and Entertainment

Nearly a dozen other Ottawa organizations also slated to get financial aid as part of $24-million package to help Ontario’s cultural sector survive the COVID-19

After worst year on record, Canadian economy enters 2021 with momentum

Canada & World

Statistics Canada said the economy grew at an annualized rate of 9.6% over the last three months of 2020

Ottawa drug-maker Tetra Bio-Pharma’s decade-long research effort may be poised to pay off

Techopia

Product is designed to treat life-threatening conditions triggered when the body’s immune system “goes rogue” in response to infections such as COVID-19.