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City of Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, a municipality and the second largest city
within the province of Ontario. Located in the Ottawa Valley, in the eastern
portion of Southern Ontario, the city lies on the Ottawa River, a major waterway
forming the local boundary between the provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
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Craigslist: Ottawa-Hull-Gatineau
craigslist provides local
classifieds and forums for
jobs,
housing, for sale,
personals, services, local community, and events.
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Entrepreneurship Centre
The Entrepreneurship Centre is an initiative of OCRI, dedicated to helping
Ottawa entrepreneurs make informed decisions about starting and growing their
businesses. The Centre aims to promote Ottawa's economy, through the development
of products and services that encourage
entrepreneurship and support business
growth.
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Kijiji Ottawa / Gatineau
Visit Kijiji for Canada's largest and most visited free classifieds site with
millions of ads. Categories include buy & sell, cars, pets, jobs, homes, and
more.
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Ottawa Business Journal
The
Ottawa Business Journal is a regional business publication serving Canada's
National Capital Region. Founded in 1995, it is owned by Transcontinental Media
and published on a weekly basis with a circulation of 20,000 copies. Over its
first decade, the Ottawa Business Journal has been recognized as a leading
source of
local business information. In addition to its weekly newspaper, the
Ottawa Business Journal also includes the largest business-related website in
Ottawa, Canada.
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Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation
The Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) is Ottawa's leading
member-based economic development corporation for fostering the advancement of
the region's globally competitive knowledge-based institutions and industries.
OCRI delivers its economic development services through a unique partnership
with the City of Ottawa, where the City and OCRI, through its members set the
strategy and manage the programs that move Ottawa’s economy forward.
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Ottawa Chamber of Commerce
The Ottawa Chamber of Commerce is the oldest and largest independent, most
influential, not-for-profit
business organization in the region. Since its
founding in 1857, the Chamber (formerly the Ottawa Board of Trade) has been
committed to our not only our Members growth and prosperity but to the
well-being of the community at large.
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Ottawa Cleaning Services
Find a florist in
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Growers, distributors, and online
retailers of flowers and floral products in
Ottawa, Ontario.
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Ottawa Citizen
The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia
Network in Ottawa, Canada. According to the Canadian Newspaper Association, the
paper had a 2008 weekly circulation of 900,197.
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Ottawa Construction Association
Founded in 1889, the Ottawa Construction Association today is the third-largest
regional construction association in Canada and the voice of Ottawa’s
non-residential construction industry. Combined, our membership of approximately
900 firms builds more than 90 per cent of the Ottawa region’s $3-billion
commercial, industrial and institutional market.
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Ottawa Convention Centre
The Ottawa Convention Centre is a convention centre in
downtown Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada. It is currently under construction and is slated to open in spring 2011.
The Centre replaces the Ottawa Congress Centre, which opened in 1985. The new
centre is being built on the site of the Congress Centre building, which was
demolished in 2008-2009. The Centre is located on Colonel By Drive, just south
of Rideau Street. The facility is owned by the Government of Ontario provincial
government.
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Ottawafood.com
Ottawafood.com is the largest restaurant guide serving the
city of Ottawa. With
more than 1200 restaurants in our
Ottawa restaurant listings, you will be sure
to find a wonderful place to dine.
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OttawaPlus.ca
OttawaPlus.ca is your guide to entertainment, dining, nightlife and shopping in
Ottawa, Quebec. Find restaurants, bars and clubs, attractions, boutiques,
hotels, concerts, festivals, movies and much more.
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Ottawa Real Estate Board
The Ottawa Real Estate Board (OREB) is a non-profit professional association of
registered real estate brokers and salespeople in the
Ottawa, Canada area. OREB
was formed in 1919 and incorporated in 1921. In 1982 the name was changed to
Real Estate Board of
Ottawa-Carleton, and was changed back to the Ottawa Real
Estate Board in 2000.
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Ottawa Sun
The Ottawa Sun is a daily "Tabloid" newspaper in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is
published by Sun Media. It is popular especially among commuters because its
daily version (is almost free) (Monday-Friday) is only 25 cents each, everyday.
It is also widely distributed for free on weekday mornings. It is also
distributed in outlying areas for one dollar, both on week days and weekends.
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Ottawa Tourism
Official Ottawa Travel website guide to Canada’s Capital region with Ottawa
Ontario hotels, attractions, Parliament Hill, historic Byward Market, Ottawa
restaurants, Rideau Centre,
Ottawa shopping and more.
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University of Ottawa
The University of Ottawa or Université d'Ottawa in French (also known as uOttawa
or nicknamed U of O, and Ottawa U) is a bilingual, research-intensive,
non-denominational, international university in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Women's Business Network
The Women's Business Network (WBN) of Ottawa is an organization of like-minded
women, interested in making relationships to create more business. The goals of
the network are advanced by providing a forum where women can come together to
share ideas and experience and celebrate each other's accomplishments. In the
process, businesses are promoted, and often, partnerships are formed. With
approximately 150 members, the WBN has celebrated over 20 years of involvement
in the business community. To further promote the members, the WBN distributes a
directory to over 5,000
local businesses.
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Economy of Ottawa :
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Ottawa's primary employers are the Public Service of
Canada and the high-tech industry. The city has a high standard of living and
low unemployment. Ottawa had the fourth highest growth rate among major Canadian
cities in 2007 with a 2.7% GDP growth rate, which exceeded the Canadian average
of 2.4%. It is estimated that the National Capital Region attracts around seven
million tourists annually who spend about 1.3 billion dollars.
The region of
Ottawa-Gatineau has the third highest income of all major Canadian
cities. The average gross income in the region amounted to $40,078, an increase
of 4.9% compared to the previous year. The annual cost of living rate in 2007
was 1.9%.
The Federal government is the city's largest employer, employing over 110,000
individuals from the
National Capital region. Ottawa is also an important
technology centre; its 1800 companies employ approximately 80,000 people. The
concentration of companies in this industry earned the city the nickname of
"Silicon Valley North." Most of these companies specialize in
telecommunications, software development and environmental technology. Large
technology companies such as Nortel, Corel, Mitel, Cognos and JDS Uniphase were
founded in the city. Ottawa also has regional locations for 3M, Adobe Systems,
Bell Canada, IBM Alcatel-Lucent and Hewlett-Packard. Many of the
telecommunications and new technology are located in the western part of the
city (formerly Kanata).
Another major employer is the health sector, which employs over 18,000 people.
Nordion, i-Stat as well as the National Research Council of Canada and OHRI are
part of the growing life science sector. Business, finance, administration, and
sales and service occupations rank high among types of occupations.
Approximately ten percent of Ottawa's GDP is derived from finance, insurance,
real estate whereas employment is in goods-producing industries is only half the
national average. The City of Ottawa is the second largest employer with over
15,000 employees.
In 2006, Ottawa experienced an increase of 40,000 jobs over 2001 with a
five-year average growth that was relative slower than in the late 1990s. While
the number of employees in the federal government stagnated, the high-technology
industry grew by 2.4%. The overall growth of jobs in Ottawa-Gatineau was 1.3%
compared to the previous year, down to sixth place among Canada's largest
cities. The unemployment rate in Ottawa-Gatineau was 5.2% (only in Ottawa:
5.1%), which was below the national average of 6.0%. The economic downturn
resulted in an increase in the unemployment rate between April 2008 and April
2009 from 4.7 to 6.3%. In the province, however, this rate increased over the
same period from 6.4 to 9.1%.
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