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• Eye on the Hill: Funding announcements during break...
  The House of Commons and Senate were on a break week from May 21 to May 25, with both resuming sitting on Monday, May 28. Tuesday, May 22: - ...
• Eye on the Hill: CGI, CIBC first companies to sign...
  Monday, May 7: - Statistics Canada released building permits data for March 2012. Building permits taken out in March were worth $6.8 ...
• Blogging from Silicon Valley: Entrepreneurship...
  We felt like we were in the Nirvana of pure risk-taking, money falling from heavenly angels, and fast-paced and exciting business adventures. ...
• Blogging from Silicon Valley: Carpooling to success
  The early morning bus ride brought the group to a relatively unknown company called Informatica, an analysis company that integrates corporate ...
• Can work make you sick?
  By Bruce Wolfgram Should it lower cubicle walls or eliminate them altogether? Should it implement "teleworking" (working from home) or ...
• Blogging from Silicon Valley: Innovation, Microsoft...
  Both companies welcomed us warmly and staff at each facility presented us with materials that helped us understand their organization at a macro ...
• Eye on the Hill: Tories talk trade and taxation with...
  Monday, April 30: -Statistics Canada released GDP by industry figures for February 2012. Real gross domestic product declined 0.2 per cent in ...
• Blogging from Silicon Valley: The entrepreneurial...
  Our first event of the week was a tour of the Savannah-Chanelle Vineyards. For a business located at the epicenter of the connected world, one ...
• Eye on the Hill: Budget officer blasts secrecy over...
  The House of Commons and Senate resumed sitting on April 23 after a two-week break Monday, April 23: -The Standing Committee on Procedure and ...
• Filling RIM's app gap
  by Tony Patterson Ottawa connection? For those who have been out of touch for the duration, the Ottawa connection comprises QNX, Alec Saunders ...
• Eye on the Hill: Harper expands Chilean trade deal
  The House of Commons and Senate are on Easter breaks this week. Both houses resume sitting on April 23. Monday, April 16: - Labour ...
• Online retailers move beyond digital
  By Dave Hale Despite the hype around e-commerce, m-commerce (mobile) and social commerce, very few Canadian retailers have implemented a digital ...
• Eye on the Hill: Clement pledges to release more...
  The House of Commons and Senate are on Easter breaks this week. Both houses resume sitting on April 23rd.Monday, April 9:- The Bank of Canada ...
• Eye on the Hill: Laflamme completes Chaudière...
  The House of Commons and Senate rose on Thursday, April 5 before the holiday weekend and a two-week break. Both will resume sitting on ...
• Rennie and the rest
  By Tony Patterson Rennie was 94. For generations of British scientists and engineers coming from Britain through the post- world war decades he ...
• Eye on the Hill: PM launches free trade talks with...
  Saturday, March 24: -International Trade Minister Ed Fast attended the opening of the first BlackBerry Lifestyle Store in Thailand, one of ...
• Eye on the Hill
  The House of Commons and Senate were on a break week from March 19 to the 23. Both resume sitting on Monday, March 26. The 2012 Federal Budget ...
• Timeline trumps old Facebook business strategies
  by Dave Hale With a short turnaround of only 30 days to switch from the current brand page to timeline – Facebook will automatically make the ...
• What to watch for in the federal budget
  by Christopher Smith Tens of thousands of civil service positions are expected to be eliminated, but some still hold hope that cuts can be ...
• Eye on the Hill
  Saturday, March 10: - The Manning Centre for Building Democracy continued its networking conference in Ottawa. Keynote speakers included ...
• Eye on the Hill
  Monday, March 5:-Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty met with leading private sector economists to discuss their views on Canada's economic future. ...
• Eye on the Hill
  Saturday, Feb. 25 -Finance Minister Jim Flaherty attended a summit of G-20 Finance Ministers in Mexico City to discuss ongoing economic and ...
• OCRI finally gets a name
  by Tony Patterson Invest Ottawa will help develop Ottawa's goods and services, present them to the world and bring local business what it needs ...
• 'Sherpa' finds business lightening the workload of...
  Ms. Crawford recently spoke with Fenix Solutions Inc. CEO Jennifer MacKinnon, who writes a monthly column, Ottawa Women of Wonder, to profile and ...
• Why this recession is different
  By John Seymour I lived through a real estate recession between 1992-95, but this one is somehow different and is sending confusing signals.Three ...
• Eye on the Hill
  It was a break week for the House of Commons and the Senate between Feb. 20 to 24. Both will resume sitting on Monday, Feb. 27. However, the ...
• Federal contracts (Jan. 29 - Feb. 4)
  IBISKA Telecom Inc. 130 Albert St. Description: Informatics professional services Buyer: PWGSC $6,699,403 Fujitsu Consulting (Canada) Inc. ...
• Eye on the Hill
  Monday, Feb. 13: -The standing committee on Human Resources met in camera to discuss committee business and consider its draft report: "A ...
• How the feds can spur tech commercialization
  By Stephen Hurwitz Consider this: a successful innovation economy requires not just innovative ideas and the research and development to develop ...
• A shared voice is stronger than a single voice
  On the whole, talk of how mergers are better for the business community, how bigger is better and how we need to speak with one voice is all nice ...