Category: News
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Ottawa Hospital celebrates innovative research, centenary and campaign for new health care hub
For Chantal Langevin, Christmas hasn’t always been the most wonderful time of the year. Growing up, while her mom struggled to put food on the table, at her relatives, presents would fill half the living room for a family of five at Christmas. The contrast always struck her — and stayed with her.
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Delivering Smiles for Seniors at Christmas
For Chantal Langevin, Christmas hasn’t always been the most wonderful time of the year. Growing up, while her mom struggled to put food on the table, at her relatives, presents would fill half the living room for a family of five at Christmas. The contrast always struck her — and stayed with her.
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NCC talks with Melnyk’s RendezVous group on LeBreton Flats project move ahead
Ottawa residents will have to wait at least another year to find out whether they can look forward to watching the Ottawa Senators play in a new downtown arena. After hearing that enough progress has been made in talks with Eugene Melnyk’s RendezVous LeBreton group to designate it as the preferred proponent to develop LeBreton…
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Update: NCC to start negotiating LeBreton Flats redevelopment with Senators-backed group
One of Ottawa’s largest urban redevelopment projects took a major step forward on Thursday morning, but the start of construction still remains more than a year away. The National Capital Commission board of directors voted today to officially recognize RendezVous LeBreton as the preferred proponent to redevelop the 53-acre vacant property west of downtown. The…
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Canadian Museum for Human Rights: from dream to reality
WINNIPEG – When Canada’s newest national museum opens next weekend, it will mark the end of a 14-year journey sparked by one family’s desire to have Canadians learn about the struggle for — and the fragility of — freedom. Global Winnipeg will mark the opening on Sept. 19 with a day of coverage from the…
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Fans, players give TD Place at Lansdowne a loud welcome
Thousands of Ottawa Redblacks season-ticket holders got their first look at the team’s sparkling new home Wednesday night at the grand opening of TD Place at Lansdowne. While the event was a chance for fans to tour the stadium and meet Redblacks players, it also served as a test run for team officials madly preparing…
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Canadian Museum for Human Rights can change Canada, CEO Stuart Murray believes
On the subject of Winnipeg’s new Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Stuart Murray makes no bones about it: he’s an optimist. “If you’re not going to be optimistic with a project of this magnitude,” the museum’s president and CEO said during a promotional visit to Ottawa Tuesday, “you might as well get out.” But Murray’s…
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Sandy Hill Development Expected to Ease Student Housing Shortage
Robert Viner and Susan Viner Vered, CEO and COO, respectively, of Viner Assets Inc. (VAI) and Tony DiBiase, principal, CA international, an affiliate of CA Student Living (CASL), VAI’s joint venture partner, are pleased to participate in a public consultation at the Sandy Hill Community Center at 6:30 p.m. on November 6 to present and…
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CMHR announces September 2014 opening date
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) will open its doors to the world on September 20, 2014, its President and CEO announced today at a briefing with industry partners. “A national project of this scope and scale comes along just once in a generation,” Stuart Murray said. “When the doors of this building open…
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Convention Centre meant $100M for local economy in full first year, report says
The Ottawa Convention Centre pumped more than $100 million into the local economy in its first full year of operation, says an economic impact report to be released Monday. The $179-million facility opened in April 2011, but the latest study, prepared by market research firm Ipsos, focused solely on the 2012 calendar year. It found…