When Jason Lee first started hearing about nationwide lockdowns to thwart the spread of the coronavirus, his instinct for collaboration didn’t take long to kick in.
A Kanata company that’s developing a high-tech metal powder for automotive and aerospace manufacturing has some more rocket fuel in its own tank thanks to $17 million in new funding.
A group of Ottawa business organizations is calling for more government aid for tech, tourism and other sectors that have been dramatically affected by measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Home sales in Ottawa plummeted more than 60 per cent in the first two weeks of April compared with a year earlier, while a major realty firm is predicting prices will remain stagnant through the rest of 2020.