Profile of Peter Kovessy

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Peter Kovessy is the editor of the Ottawa Business Journal.

All articles of Peter Kovessy

• Airport plans to add seven new gates
  Mark Laroche says the airport authority is in the early planning stages of the expansion and is currently looking to hire a consultant to prepare ...
• Out-of-town Convention Centre guests fall short of...
  At the time, a market feasibility study forecasted a new conference facility would bring in 113,010 visitors annually. However, an
• CIBC listed as 150 Elgin tenant
  The name and logo of CIBC Wood Gundy - the bank’s retail brokerage division - are displayed alongside confirmed tenant KPMG in architectural ...
• End of the road for PharmaGap: Bryden
  On Wednesday, PharmaGap said it would not contest a cease trade order handed down by the Ontario Securities Commission for failing to file ...
• TPG fights for $250M procurement lawsuit to be heard
  The so-called engineering and technical support services contract involves maintaining the computers and networks that run large government ...
• UPDATE: Chamber picks former lobbyist as CEO
  Originally from British Columbia, Ian Faris, 47, came to Ottawa in 1993 to work for the newly elected Liberal government of Jean Chrétien, ...
• Fortinet expanding Ottawa support centre
  Michael Anderson, Fortinet’s vice-president of global sales and support, said the new facility would become a new support centre. The company ...
• No new civil service layoffs: Tory minister
  “Absolutely not,” said Veterans Affairs Minister Steven Blaney when asked by a reporter if the government planned additional layoffs. “We are ...
• Matthews’ Magor raises $5.9M ahead of TSX-V debut
  Magor Communications will start trading under the symbol “MCC” on the TSX Venture Exchange on Friday after receiving a green light from ...
• Why professors shouldn’t be entrepreneurs
  But despite dabbling in both academia and business, Mr. Deshpande - a former innovation adviser to President Barack Obama - says the two worlds ...
• More than $1M in temp help contracts flagged by...
  Additionally, the Office of the Procurement Ombudsman found the Canada School of Public Service
• Government web consolidation opens opportunities to...
  There are currently more than 1,500 Government of Canada-owned URLS, according to an e-mailed statement from Matthew Conway, a spokesperson for ...
• Ottawa’s top tech anchors
  As one of the organizers of Fight for the Cure, he says he was helping DNA11 co-founder Adrian Salamunovic prepare for the popular charity boxing ...
• STARTUPS TO WATCH: NorthVu - The road to Walmart
  The company’s product – an antenna hidden inside a slender black plastic box slightly longer than a pen – allows users to capture high-definition ...
• STARTUPS TO WATCH: iWatchLife - Seeing what matters
  Before long, they’ll usually add a second camera aimed at their back door. That’s followed by a third camera in the basement and then a fourth in ...
• STARTUPS TO WATCH: Reinventing the wheel
  Security cameras and motion detectors have been around for decades. But one Ottawa firm has developed software to teach a camera to look for ...
• Chimo to undergo $12M retrofit; convert to Holiday Inn
  Work is scheduled to start during the first week of May and wrap up in September, says Chimo sales director Lucy Ramos. The hotel will remain ...
• EMPLOYEES' CHOICE AWARDS: Veritaaq benefits from...
  The secrets behind both Russian dishes are his contributions to an upcoming cookbook containing family recipes from Veritaaq employees.All the ...
• Wendling to push for lower tariffs, regulatory...
  In a speech Friday morning, Ms. Wendling said retailers – already accustomed to dealing with rules that vary from province to province – are ...
• DND’s Carling Avenue consolidation at a standstill
  Officials at Public Works, which manages the federal government’s real estate portfolio, say they cannot discuss schedules, dates or costs until ...
• EMPLOYEES' CHOICE AWARDS: Halsall Associates coaches...
  The firm’s business success obviously plays a major role – Halsall’s Ottawa office had a hand in two of the federal government’s new Gatineau ...
• Office developers running out of downtown land
  Nathan Smith, a senior vice-president in Cushman & Wakefield Ottawa’s capital markets group, said developers have constructed slightly more ...
• Claridge buys Rideau Street Metro for $22.15M
  Claridge Homes paid $22.15 million for the property at 245 Rideau St., at Cumberland Street, according to data published by real estate ...
• Sutcliffe sworn in as chamber chair
  Two of his grandparents worked for the federal government. So did his father, sister and two aunts. But the Ottawa-born Mr. Sutcliffe - a writer, ...
• Land investments lose lustre
  Ottawa’s historic appeal as a stable government market, coupled with inexpensive access to capital, helped drive up demand for quality real ...
• ‘Trades tax’ to increase building owners’...
  The recently established Ontario College of Trades possesses industry oversight powers similar to those organizations governing the province’s ...
• ‘Innovation complex’ proposed for Bayview Yards
  The 150,000-square-foot building envisioned by the city and Invest Ottawa would be located at the Bayview Yards, the site of a municipal public ...
• FedEx building new distribution centre
  FedEx Ground’s Allison Houser said in an e-mail that the new facility at
• UPDATE: Region adds 19,500 new jobs in 2012
  Employers in Ottawa and Gatineau added 3,300 jobs in December, dropping the unemployment rate 10 basis points to 6.6 per cent. That brings the ...
• Multicraft Imports to expand with new distribution...
  Multicraft Imports currently employs 70 workers in two buildings, according to company vice-president David King. The company’s headcount will ...