Archive 1997-2016
By Sean McIndoe
The recent success of local rinks may mean more than temporary glory for Ottawa curlers, it may signal the beginning of a shift in curling’s provincial balance of power.
Ottawa Curling Club teams took both the men’s and women’s titles in the Ontario junior championships last month, with John Morris’s mens rink going on to capture the national championship Feb. 1 in Calgary.
By Adam Hickman
Time out. Ottawa’s most successful sports franchise may lose its home at the Civic Centre, as a result of initiatives to redevelop Lansdowne Park.
Ottawa 67s co-owner Howard Darwin has publicly stated that if the Civic Centre is demolished as part of a massive redesign, he would move the junior hockey club out of the city.
By Alex Graham
“It was devastating.”
That’s what Ray Nesrallah has to say about January’s ice storm. It left his Elgin Street restaurant Gusto Bistro without power for more than a week.
Nesrallah had only gone into business in early January when disaster struck.
By Jason Brown
There is such a high demand for prime office space in downtown Ottawa that two companies, and soon possibly a third, have recently unveiled plans for new office towers, threatening to saturate the real estate market.
“I think there’s an issue of timing and absorption,” says David Patton, president of the Building Owners and Managers Association. “When you have two or three new buildings all looking for tenants, you don’t get offices filled very quickly.”