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Heritage buildings at Confederation Heights ripe for conversion, experts say

Andrew Reeves can still recall his reaction to seeing the heritage buildings at Confederation Heights when he moved to Ottawa decades ago. “I remember just looking at them in awe,” says Reeves, who studied architecture at Carleton University and launched Linebox Studio in Ottawa in 2007. “They’re beautiful, international-style buildings,...
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New retirement facility by Riverstone proposed for Orleans

Ottawa’s Riverstone Retirement Communities has submitted an application to expand its local portfolio with a 141-unit retirement facility in Orleans, a community that has become popular for senior living developments.
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Ottawa’s industrial real estate market is experiencing a “push and pull” as increased defence...
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Generative AI is a superpower for tech entrepreneurs creating new products. AI can help analyse problems, explore options and define solutions at a pace never before possible. Here’s the question: while AI is an inventor’s best friend, what role does it play in inventing new products from an intellectual property perspective? In this bonus episode of Techopia Live, OBJ publisher Michael Curran speaks with Kushal Shah, a registered Canadian patent agent and lawyer who recently joined Ottawa-based Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP. The discussion explores exactly how much heavy lifting an AI can do before it becomes difficult for a human to legally claim an invention. The conversation provides practical guidance on establishing a paper trail to prove a meaningful human contribution to the final product. Learn how to safely validate AI-generated suggestions and avoid the confidentiality traps of feeding unpatented ideas and proprietary data into generative AI systems in this latest episode. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:25 Introducing Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP 02:09 Introducing Kushal Shah 23:50 OBJ Updates and Closing For more on Ottawa’s tech and innovation scene, visit https://obj.ca/techopia. Subscribe to Techopia’s weekly newsletter here: https://obj121.activehosted.com/f/5
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Former Bay store on Rideau could make a good hotel, local market watchers say

With chatter continuing about what might happen with the former Hudson’s Bay location on Rideau Street, one concept that has gained traction is the possibility that the 330,000-square-foot space could be turned into a hotel.
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AI powerhouse Cohere to open office near Lansdowne Park

Artificial-intelligence giant Cohere is opening an office in Ottawa, the company has announced. The Toronto-based...
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Dominion Dynamics to jointly produce Ukrainian drones in Canada

Kanata-based defence company Dominion Dynamics is partnering with Ukrainian robotics company Tencore to start...

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