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OTTAWA’S 2024 BUYING GUIDE FOR BUSINESS PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

MORE THAN 30 INDUSTRY SECTORS LARGEST FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS AND LARGEST CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS TOURIM TECH, BUSINESS SERVICES, REAL ESTATE & MORE WHO MAKES WHAT: OTTAWA’S HIGHEST PAID EXECUTIVES FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES SECTOR INSIGHTS

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Tourism makes a return to this year’s Book of Lists It’s the return of the tourism industry — in more ways than one.

In this year’s Book of Lists, we’re pleased to bring back many of the lists central to Ottawa’s tourism industry. Not only is this important information, we felt it was time to celebrate and mark the return of tourism to Canada’s capital after many tough years.

Let’s be honest, we’re not back to full speed yet, but many signs are positive.

Other than that, you’ll be glad to know we’ve made few changes to our latest edition of the Book of Lists, one of our readers’ perennial favourites. Every year it delivers up-to-date data, listings and factoids about almost every aspect of business in Ottawa imaginable. We like to believe that the Book of Lists remains a unique source of hard-to-access information on local companies.

In this digital age where most of us are overwhelmed by the amount of information that comes at us each day, we hope this Book of Lists will serve as a reference tool and guide. We like to believe it will be useful as you follow business leads, look to expand your professional network, or simply want to know more about the local business community.

On the following pages, you’ll find detailed facts and figures on more than 600 companies. For ease of use, we’ve divided the publication into various sections that focus on the city’s key economic sectors. The rankings of the largest firms, broken down into dozens of industry categories, are at the heart of the Book of Lists. We’ve also included editorial features and the latest news about different sectors and highlighted notable business people in our community.

Of course, compiling and updating this publication takes a lot of work over several months and much of the credit has to go to OBJ’s Susan Habib, Lisa Thibodeau, Liam Curran and our fabulous design team led by Tanya Connolly-Holmes. Behind-the-scenes secret: this year we’ve put together the publication with the help of some leading-edge tech, which we think will have many benefits for us and for you, our readers.

Once again, this year’s edition is chock-a-block full of information on some of the city’s largest businesses, most innovative companies, and leading business people. We hope it will find a spot on your desk/desktop for many months to come.

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BUSINESS SERVICES SECTOR INSIGHTS: These employers have successfully enticed workers back to office........ 6 IN THE NEWS: The experience of working downtown has changed, professionals say ........... 7 Accounting........................................................................................................................................... 9 Marketing & advertising agencies ............................................................................................ 11, 13 HR consultants...................................................................................................................................15 Labour and employment law firms................................................................................................. 17 Law firms.............................................................................................................................................19 Patent and trademark firms.............................................................................................................21

REAL ESTATE SECTOR INSIGHTS: Tenants seeing best deals in ‘highly competitive’ office market.......24 IN THE NEWS: Groupe Mach’s Vincent Chiara bullish on Ottawa office market..................25 Co-working and serviced offices spaces....................................................................................... 27 Commercial interior design firms..................................................................................................29 Commercial real estate brokers ..................................................................................................... 31 Privately-owned office buildings and complexes........................................................................33 Architecture firms............................................................................................................................35 Engineering firms.............................................................................................................................. 37

TECHNOLOGY SECTOR INSIGHTS: Mike Kelland makes a splash with Planetary Technologies............... 40 IN THE NEWS: Calian acquires Decisive Group in $74.7M deal ...............................................41 Defence and security companies...................................................................................................43 Clean-tech companies..................................................................................................................... 44 Digital strategy and web development firms...............................................................................45 Aerospace companies......................................................................................................................45 2023 Fastest Growing Companies.................................................................................................47

TOURISM SECTOR INSIGHTS: Ottawa is ‘off to the races,’ and higher hotel room tax won’t hurt....50 IN THE NEWS: Tourism may not recover for another two years, foot traffic ‘still missing' ....51 Hotels..................................................................................................................................................53 Extended stay and furnished suite providers..............................................................................55 Meeting and convention spaces.............................................................................................. 57, 59

AWARDS, ORGANIZATIONS AND OTHER BUSINESS SECTORS SECTOR INSIGHTS: Jennifer Flanagan brings STEM to underrepresented youth..............62 IN THE NEWS: Water resources engineer pens children’s book on ‘magic’ of Earth .........63 NEW Car dealership groups............................................................................................................65 Security personnel firms................................................................................................................. 67 Security technology firms............................................................................................................... 67 In-home care providers....................................................................................................................69 2023 Forty Under 40 recipients.............................................................................................. 70-73

GOVERNMENT SPENDING Top federal contracts & vendors.................................................................................................... 76

CONSTRUCTION Top projects of 2023........................................................................................................................ 78

WHO MAKES WHAT Ottawa's highest paid executives........................................................................................... 79-80

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The last few months have been devastating to local radio and newspapers.

Rogers closed a news-talk station.

Metroland Media Group sought bankruptcy protection and ceased printing 70 newspapers in Ontario. Bell Media cut 1,300 employees across Canada. Le Droit is only printing on Saturdays. The city’s other dailies have substantially shrunk.

“The bottom line is that with every journalist that is laid off, and every publication that shutters its doors, Canada’s democratic resiliency erodes a little bit more,” said Brent Jolly, president of the Canadian Association of Journalists.

Layer on the ongoing dispute of Bill C-18 and you must conclude these are dark days for local journalism.

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DECIDE ON VALUE, NOT SYMPATHY Every day, I believe OBJ demonstrates its value by providing unique local business journalism that you won’t find anywhere else. There is an interesting value proposition for business journalism, if you compare it to something like political or sports news. Business journalism can build context for important business decisions and sometimes even become actionable business opportunities.

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BUSINESS SERVICES

SECTOR INSIGHTS

A ‘final balance’?

These employers have successfully enticed workers back to office

BY MIA JENSEN

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ork-from-home mandates have long since lifted, but it’s no secret that not everyone is scrambling to get back into the office.

In spring 2023, a report from the Angus Reid Institute found that one-quarter of Canadian workers prefer working at the office all the time. More than half said they’d rather work from home more often than working on-site.

But local employers, especially those in the architecture, engineering and construction services sectors, have found more success than most getting employees out of their homes and back to the office.

So what’s the secret to a successful return?

According to Bryan Weins, a principal at LWG Architectural Interiors, there’s no onesize-fits-all solution.

“There has to be a reason for people to go in,” he said. “I think part of it is cultural. Do they want to go in, do they want to work together? If I’m sitting at a desk coding all day, there’s not really any reason to go into the office. Why would I need to go in?”

Weins’ firm designs workplace interiors in the Ottawa area. He said the pandemic cut their workload nearly in half as companies, including LWG, moved out of their offices and into the off-site, digital realm.

But unlike other employers that have struggled to entice workers back to their desks, Weins said LWG’s return-to-office strategy required very little effort.

“It was really simple,” he said. “We said, as soon as

you’ve been vaccinated, we want you back. There was no discussion. Nobody said they didn’t want to come.

Everybody just came back.”

Part of the company's success, said Weins, came down to the nature of the work, which necessitates an in-person environment.

“Our work goes from intense collaboration to intense heads-down work,” he said. “Doing that over a screen, it was possible but it wasn’t very efficient.”

He added that, during the pandemic, “Our staff were efficient and their individual productivity was really good, but our corporate productivity was horrible.

What we’re able to produce when we’re back together in the office versus when we were all work-from-home, it’s almost double.”

But necessity alone isn’t enough to get employees excited about a return to in-person work. The real key to success, said Weins, was the company culture.

“We missed each other during our time working remotely,” said Weins. “Working from home, everybody was like, ‘I can’t wait to get back to the office.’ It’s the opposite of what we’re hearing a lot of organizations struggling with. They’re having a hard time bringing people back. We didn’t have that issue at all.”

Consulting engineering firm Cleland Jardine saw similar enthusiasm during its return-to-office efforts, according to Brian Johnson, vice-president of structural engineering.

“I think it’s up to leaders of these individual companies to give their staff a reason to want to be in the office, not just telling them to,” he said. “(It’s about)

making them understand the value versus the value of working from home. There’s good and bad associated with both, but I think what really helped us was that we had a built-in corporate culture where we have internal camaraderie, internal social interaction, social functions and social spaces.”

Aside from its boardrooms and kitchen, the company has maintained a fairly traditional office setup, with assigned cubicles for employees. After a year working out of improvised home offices, Johnson said the opportunity to get back to a desk has been a welcome change for many employees.

“I think the value of that is it gives people a home away from home,” he said. “We have a space for everybody. I think that helps, being able to leave your home office and come to your place of work where you can feel like there’s a space for you.”

While the office situation is similar to its prepandemic configuration, Johnson said the company has worked in more flexible policies to ensure working in the office doesn’t become more of a hassle than a convenience.

“We want people here in the office, but if there’s a reason to work from home, we want to work with that,” he said. “And if you have been on a construction site downtown or had a doctor's appointment in Orléans, don’t drive all the way back to the office. Those kinds of accommodations have helped let people know it’s not just about being here, but about giving you the convenience.”

He added, “It’s also about removing the former bias that many employers used to have about the inability for people to work from home. Everything is set up to make sure they can work from home. That’s the direction we’re heading.”

Flexibility has also been key to the return-to-office strategy introduced by MARANT Construction, according to business development manager Jennifer Cross.

“At MARANT, we are in the business of building workplaces and are committed to being a reflection of the great products we create,” said Cross in a statement. “We know that, as a team, we function at our best when we are together.”

According to Cross, the company is back in the office in force four days a week, but with shortened work days and flexible start times. Fridays have also become halfdays.

The company has put more focus on wellness, introducing team wellness initiatives and increasing benefits packages to include unlimited mental health support for team members.

These changes, she said, have paid off.

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IN THE NEWS

The experience of working downtown has changed, professionals say

BY MIA JENSEN

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s more workers return to the office, larger employers based in Ottawa’s downtown core have noticed that the experience of working in the area has changed dramatically since the pandemic.

“It’s empty,” said Peter Berry, a partner at Ottawabased firm Welch LLP, headquartered on Slater Street.

“The hustle and the excitement of being downtown is now gone. There’s not the volume of people, there’s not the same volume of activity. It’s not an exciting place to be anymore.”

According to Berry, Welch is gradually shifting back into the office, though it has adopted a permanent hybrid model. On any given day, he said, 30 to 35 per cent of the firm’s 230 employees are in the office.

“The flexibility is something we want to continue longer term, though we do want to see a little bit more of a return to office,” he said. “Building a stronger corporate culture is one reason why, and there is a training aspect that I’d say is better in the office.”

But, like many employers, he said there are barriers, especially in the downtown core.

“There’s so many businesses that have shut down,” said Berry. “Restaurants, coffee shops, retailers that service downtown occupiers. A lot of them are now gone.

There’s a lot less choice. There’s a lot less activity.”

Despite the challenges, Welch’s employees and clients seem anxious to get out of the house and into the downtown core, he added.

“It’s still a good place to work,” he said. “We’re still pushing for a lot of meetings downtown, whether it’s at our office or at a restaurant. People are still willing and eager to do that. I think there is a lot of desire for people to get out and do these things.”

For companies like Acart Communications Inc., the transition back to the office has not been smooth.

The 32-person team, which is headquartered in an office building on Nepean Street, went through at least five iterations of its return-to-office initiative before finding a suitable model, according to chief innovation officer Andrew McWiggan.

“Initially, we did mandatory days back in the office,” said McWiggan. “Then we went to team-based days where each department came in on certain days. Then we moved to just having everyone come in on alternate days. We’ve worked with a series of different models.”

McWiggan said they’ve now found a “sweet spot,” where employers come in Tuesday to Thursday and work from home on Mondays and Fridays.

Since returning to in-person work, McWiggan said he’s also noticed a shift in the work culture downtown.

“It’s changed dramatically,” he said. “There’s not a lot of foot traffic anymore. When I first moved here (in 2019), I remember the street being busy. You would stop and see people you knew walking down the street. It was much more vibrant.”

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real estate downtown and they’re not having staff frequent downtown regularly,” McWiggan said. “Like Shopify; I remember the days where they had thousands of people in the space and now they’ve moved to a digital-first model.”

He added that there have been some tough conversations with staff members concerned about safety in the downtown, something street-level businesses such as restaurants and retailers have raised alarm bells about in recent years.

While the larger, corporate companies don’t experience the same negative effects on business, he said there are still worries.

“Ultimately, some of our staff don’t feel safe

Gen-Z workers worried about AI, survey suggests Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming commonplace in the workplace and gen-Z workers are worried about it, a recent survey showed.

Priya Bhaloo, chief operating officer of TAG HR, was surprised by some of the results.

“I’m actually very optimistic about how AI can actually impact and improve the workplace,” she said.

“It’s shocking to me that a generation that is on their actual devices so much would be afraid of what AI is doing. There are ways where we can manage it and incorporate it to the level that we need.”

Bhaloo said the labour shortage offers opportunities to young workers, more than AI presents challenges.

“Does any business out there want to replace the entire workforce? Probably not,” she said. “The main issue for businesses is not how AI is going to affect things, it’s where to find talent. People are ultimately the number one issue.”

Rather than worrying about AI, Bhaloo suggests that gen-Z workers should embrace it.

accessing the space at certain times,” he said. “It’s really quite tragic. There’s obviously increasing challenges for people with the opioid crisis, homelessness and, really, the disparity of wealth.”

With the hybrid work model likely here to stay, McWiggan said innovative solutions to bring vibrancy back to the core should focus more on community over business.

“We’ve been in this space for well over 30 years,” he said. “I think there needs to be some creative thinking about how to rebuild in this sort of environment. I don’t think it’s something that can just be an overnight sensation. You have to figure out how to rebuild a downtown core knowing that information.”

“They should be embracing technology, in whatever form it comes in, as opposed to looking at it as a threat,” she said. “They’re at an advantage, where they can drive how companies are going to integrate AI into their regular processes. It doesn’t have to replace workers, it can enhance what they do.”

She also encouraged workers who have started experimenting with AI in their work to be more vocal about the advantages they find.

“It starts with removing the fear factor,” she said.

“Our motto is work smart, not hard. We should be teaching our staff how to use AI. For young workers, take advantage of the opportunity and make your voice heard.”

When it comes to concerns about AI in the hiring process, Bhaloo said the old-school options continue to work best for young people looking to break into their first jobs.

“Network, connect with the HR person, express your interest,” she said. “Those connections might help your resume rise to the top of the pile.”

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THE LIST Company/Address Phone/Fax/Web

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1600-100 Queen Street, Ottawa, ON K1P 5T8 613-236-2442 / 613-236-2195 deloitte.ca

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KPMG LLP

800-99 Bank St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1E4 613-237-3702 / 613-237-3963 pwc.com/ca 1800-150 Elgin St. Ottawa, ON K2P 2P8 613-212-5764 / 613-212-2896 kpmg.ca

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BDO Canada LLP

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Ernst & Young LLP (EY)

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Welch LLP

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Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton

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MNP LLP

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1700-180 Kent St. Ottawa, ON K1P 0B6 613-237-9331 / 613-237-9779 bdo.ca 1200-99 Bank St. Ottawa, ON K1P 6B9 613-232-1511 / 613-232-5324 ey.com

123 Slater St., 3rd floor Ottawa, ON K1P 5H2 613-236-9191 / 613-236-8258 welchllp.com 200-1900, City Park Dr, Ottawa, ON K1J 1A3 613-236-2211 / 613-236-6104 rcgt.com

800-1600 Carling Ave. Ottawa, ON K2A 4B2 613-691-4200 / 613-726-9009 mnp.ca

No. of local employees

No. of Ottawa / Gatineau CPAs

Local offices / Offices outside the NCR

Key local executive(s)

Year est. in Ottawa

763

253

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Dan Doré Samantha Welscheid Shannon Lundquist Mark Noonan

1946

Full-service firm providing audit, tax, consulting, risk management and financial advisory services.

671

50

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Geoff S. Hill

1907

Provides professional services including audit and assurance, risk assurance, tax, deals and consulting in areas such as cybersecurity and privacy, human resources, digital transformation and forensics.

577

92

2 44

Andrew Newman

1840

Full-service firm, operating through five service lines: audit & assurance, tax & legal, advisory (deals, management & risk consulting), enterprise (private company advisor), digital and ESG (environment, social and governance).

451

57

2 85

Jeffrey Johnson

1963

BDO is a trusted partner for assurance & accounting, tax, and advisory services across the Ottawa region, Canada and beyond. In 2023, we were recognized with the Microsoft Canada AI Impact Award and earned a spot among Canada’s Top 100 Employers.

380

125

1 16

Warren Tomlin

1906

Full-service: assurance, IT audit, fraud investigation, advisory services, cybersecurity, domestic/cross-border tax, transfer pricing, transaction advisory, emerging growth services, private client services, not-for-profit, government.

251

98

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Jim McConnery

1918

Full-service firm providing audit & assurance, tax & advisory services; U.S./cross-border tax; SR&ED tax credits; M&A; valuation; corporate finance; cloud bookkeeping & controller services; government audit, risk & intergenerational wealth advisory.

247

39

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Jean Schnob Marco Perron Alain Tremblay Stanley Loiselle

1947

Firm specializing in audit, tax, strategy and performance consulting, IT audit, contribution audit, tax credit, business succession and continuity, business valuation, sales and acquisitions, recovery and reorganization (business and individual).

212

40

2 137

Michael Dimitriou Sean Devin

1981

Accounting, tax, consulting, succession, enterprise risk, corporate finance, valuations, forensics, M&A, corporate recovery, bankruptcy, technology advisory, digital solutions, cyber security, data analytics, process improvement, consulting.

122

55

2 58

Mike Hayward

1962

Full-service firm: audit and assurance, taxation (personal Canadian and US, corporate, estate, international), business valuations, financial advisory, and other consulting and entrepreneurial services for private enterprises.

100

36

2 0

Philippe Renaud

1980

Full-service bilingual firm providing audit, tax compliance and tax planning (personal, corporate, estate), consulting, risk management, business acquisitions (acquisitions and divestitures), accounting/bookkeeping and financial advisory services.

92

48

1 0

Josh Engel

1946

GGFL provides a comprehensive range of tax and accounting services for growing and established business owners, healthcare professionals and high-net-worth individuals and their families.

82

31

1 0

Jacob Milosek

2002

Full-service firm for small and medium-sized businesses and high net worth clients; taxation planning and compliance services including corporate restructuring, purchase and sale of business; succession and continuity and estate planning.

64

17

1 1

Trevor Kennedy

1994

Personal, corporate, SR&ED, cross-border, U.S. taxation, tax planning and compliance; assurance, business advisory, corporate reorganization, back office support, estate and succession planning; recruiting services, bookkeeping.

58

15

1 0

David Brighten Jeff LeBlanc Tim Malleau Greg Mouland

1979

Audit and assurance, business management services (outsourcing), personal, corporate and estates/trusts taxation, financial statements, bookkeeping, business succession planning and restructuring.

55

26

1 0

Youcef Lekadir

2020

A full-service firm providing audit and assurance, tax, corporate reorganization, M&A, estate planning, SR&ED, electoral audits, and business advisory services.

55

25

1 0

Jason Howarth

1946

Full-service firm: auditing, accounting, taxation (corporate and personal), business advisory, business valuation, corporate reorganizations, estate and succession planning, business purchase and sales, due diligence.

39

14

1 0

Steve Parker

1996

Full-service firm, except bankruptcy.

32

10

1 1

Luc Imbeau

1968

Full-service firm, specializing in owner-managed business.

Assurance, advisory, personal and corporate tax; including estate and succession planning, real estate, HST, medical and dental professionals, not-for-profits.

31

14

1 0

Rolland Vaive

2003

Full-service firm: audit and accounting, tax compliance, corporate reorganizations, estate planning, business advisory services.

30

12

1 1

Brian Kreisman

1980

Full-service firm providing audit and accounting, business advisory, mergers and acquisitions, SR&ED and government grants, U.S. tax, personal and corporate tax, reorganizations, estate planning, commodity tax.

Baker Tilly Ottawa LLP

400-301 Moodie Dr. Ottawa, ON K2H 9C4 613-820-8010 / 613-820-0465 bakertilly.ca/en/ottawa-ontario

Marcil Lavallée

400-1420 Blair Towers Pl. Ottawa, ON K1J 9L8 613-745-8387 / 613-745-9584 marcil-lavallee.ca

GGFL LLP

287 Richmond Road Ottawa, ON K1Z 6X4 613-728-5831 / 613-728-8085 ggfl.ca

Hendry Warren LLP

200-881 Lady Ellen Pl. Ottawa, ON K1Z 5L3 613-235-2000 / 613-235-2643 hwllp.ca

Logan Katz LLP

105-6 Gurdwara Rd. Ottawa, ON K2E 8A3 613-228-8282 / 613-228-8284 logankatz.com

14

Andrews & Co.

15

Lekadir LLP

15

McCay Duff LLP

540 Lacolle Way Orleans, ON K4A 0N9 613-837-8282 / 613-837-7482 andrews.ca 402-1900 City Park Dr Ottawa, ON K1J 1A3 613-824-0570 / 613-824-1398 lekadir.com 210-979 Bank St. Ottawa, ON K1S 5K5 613-236-2367 / 613-236-5041 mccayduff.com

17

Parker Prins Lebano

18

Connelly & Koshy Professional Corp.

19

Vaive and Associates

20

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Deloitte Canada

PwC

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ACCOUNTING FIRMS

1796 Courtwood Cr. Ottawa, ON K2C 2B5 613-727-7474 / 613-727-3715 parkerprinslebano.com 401-2934 Baseline Rd. Ottawa, ON K2H 1B2 613-224-0212 / 613-225-0730 ck-ca.com 200A-441 MacLaren St. Ottawa, ON K2P 2H3 613-369-5064 vaiveandassociates.ca

Crowe BGK LLP

420-400 March Rd. Kanata, ON K2K 3H4 613-836-8228 / 613-836-8338 crowebgk.com

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1010-333 Preston St. Ottawa, ON K1S 5N4 613-866-9327 seoplus.ca 35 Armstrong St. Ottawa, ON K1Y 2V4 613-722-6832 banfield.agency 400-171 Nepean St. Ottawa, ON K2P 0B5 613-230-7944 / 613-232-5980 acart.com

4 4

spark*advocacy

20 James Street Ottawa, ON K2P 0T6 613-244-0858 alphabetcreative.com 37 St-Joseph Blvd.

Gatineau, QC J8Y 3V8 819-205-1782 orkestra.ca 6-71 Bank St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5N2 613-367-5513 sparkadvocacy.ca 204-311 Richmond Rd. Ottawa, ON K1Z 6X3 613-745-2225 xactlydesign.com

8 9

Accurate Creative

9

Craft&Crew Corp.

9

Syntax Strategy

103-141 Catherine St. Ottawa, ON K2P 1C3 613-230-3875 / 613-230-1458 mediaplusadvertising.com 100-57 Auriga Dr. Ottawa, ON K2E 8B2 613-723-2057 accurate.ca

203-421 Richmond Rd. Ottawa, ON K2A 4H1 613-518-1008 craftandcrew.ca 411 Donald B. Munro Drive Carp, ON K0A 1L0 613-470-8555 syntaxstrategic.ca

Notable current clients

Services offered

50

2012

Eddy Abou-Nehme Brock Murray

WND

SEO, paid search and social advertising, content marketing, digital marketing.

36

1973

Timothy Jones, President

Public Safety Canada, Health Canada, NAC, Ingenium, Kinaxis, Reckitt, Conference Board of Canada, March Network, Royal Canadian Legion, Canadian Institute of Actuaries, Women and Gender Equality Canada

Strategic planning, research, social media, media strategy, brand development, creative development and execution, digital services, motion and video.

32

1976

Andrew McWiggan Theresa Forman

Ottawa Senators Hockey Club, Ottawa Senators Foundation, St. John Ambulance, Egg Farmers of Canada, OC Transpo, Food Cycle Science, Elections Canada, and Government of Canada.

Brand architecture, customer journey mapping, video + animation, demand generation, campaign strategy, GTM (Goto-market) strategy, communications planning, programmatic, full-service media desk (buying and planning), brand design, campaign execution

30

2000

Tony Lyons, President Regan Mathurin, CEO Cathy Kirkpatrick, Partner

Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation, Canadian Construction Association, CADSI, Bank Of Canada, CREA, Canadian Blood Services, Hydro Ottawa, Canadian Parents for French, Minto Communities Ottawa, Egg Farmers of Canada

Brand integration consulting, Integrated marketing services: brand visioning, creative strategy, advertising campaign planning and execution, content marketing, digital marketing, media planning and buying, custom technology solutions

30

2008

Sacha LauzierBonnette Frédérique Dumont Colin Laramée-Plouffe Alex Van Dieren

Groupe Nordik, Bell, RBC, Carbonleo, Telfer, Canadian Space Agency, Tourisme Outaouais, Business Council of Canada

Branding, experiential, video production and creative communications.

30

2016

Perry Tsergas Adrian Jean Bruce Anderson

WND

Full-service integrated marketing agency specializing in branding, design, advertising campaigns, social media, media buying and web development for clients interested in awareness, reputation and advocacy.

30

2002

Denis Sabourin, CEO Laura Williams, Director Steve Harding, Director Blair Burchill, Director

CAA, Mindbridge, Schneider Electric, Canada Royal Milk, Goldbar Whiskey, TCU Developments, Heart Institute, Centennial Glass, Palladium Insurance, Getit Technologies, High Ties Cannabis, Canadian Bank Note, Ringette Canada

Full service retainer style agency creating big ideas, campaigns with results, and managing brands through strategy, content & design.

22

1984

Don Masters, President/Creative Director Christine Kincaid, COO

Canada Post, Ottawa Tourism, OC Transpo, Chicken Farmers of Canada, Atletico Ottawa, Shepherds of Good Hope, Royal Canadian Legion, Ottawa Airport Authority, Downtown Rideau BIA, CMHC, CPAC, Elections Canada, OSEG, Snowsuit Fund

Advertising, content, branding services.

20

1988

Stacey Sauvé, CEO & Partner Megan Landry, Producer & Partner

WND

Campaign strategy and execution, brand and corporate identity, video and photography, web design and development, motion graphics and animation, content development, advertising, digital and traditional design and layout

20

2010

Dave Hale, Founder & CEO

Booster Juice, Google Canada, Manitoba Hydro, National Arts Centre, REALTOR.ca, Xplore, YouTube Canada

Media planning, buying, and campaign management, website strategy, design, development, and optimization, website support and maintenance, animated and live action video production.

20

2010

Jennifer Stewart

WND

Full service marketing and communications including: strategic communications, campaign development, social media, public and media relations, graphic design, video production, research, advocacy and event support.

19

2012

Shelley True, President

Canada Lands Company, Uniform Developments, Glenview Homes, District Realty, Hobin Architecture, and More.

Strategy, brand development, web design and development, digital marketing, SEO and SEM, social media strategy and management, graphic design, public relations, event planning, copywriting, advertising.

18

2004

Victoria Adams, Founding Partner, Creative Director Kristy Smith, Partner, technical Director

Technology, Health, Nuclear, Cybersecurity, Aerospace, Construction, Automobile, Defence, Finance, Oceanography, and Engineering clients.

End-to-end marketing services including graphic design & branding, website design & development, SEO strategy, PPC campaign management & monitoring, marketing strategy & automation, branding & logo design, motion graphics & video production.

18

1988

James Hanington, CEO Anna Jackson, Head of strategy

Ontario Nurses’ Association, The Royal Ottawa, CBoC, Government of Canada, OpenText, City of Ottawa (Road Safety, OC Transpo, Community & Social Services), Defence Construction Canada, uOttawa, Carleton University, CMA, IMC.

Strategic communications, branding, social media, digital strategy and SEO, advertising, annual reports, video, graphic design, illustration, motion design, web design, copywriting, editing, writing training, speechwriting, scripting.

16

1996

Gordon McMillan

Chronicle Heritage, CloudFix, Cognizant, FLO EV charging systems, Headway Environmental, HUB International, Iogen, Investment Planning Counsel of Canada, Chronicle Heritage, ToolWatch,

Brand strategy, design and activation, awareness and demand gen campaigns, digital ecosystem builds from websites to microsites to social.

15

1999

Dan Cummins

Toyota, NASA, Blood Services, Global Affairs, United Nations, Google Earth,

Design and Web development, UX and UI specialists, App development, strategy, content writing, photography, video production, digital marketing.

15

2004

Carl Poirier, Owner and Creative Director

ACUFC, CNFS, AEFO, Avantage Ontario, CiCan, CNCLC, Katasa, La Cité, Hôpital Monfort, Montfort Renaissance, Montfort, OLRT, RGA, Rideau Canoe Club, uOttawa, Arcfield, Mondeau & Boone Plumbing, Canada Pork, Skins, ODC.

Full-service bilingual creative agency. Brand (strategy, creative and development), UX & UI design for Web + full development (AA Web accessibility), SEO/SEM, advertising (strategy, writing, creative, production, media and more).

15

1979

Josh Caplan, Executive Creative Director Topher Dubay, Director, Creative Operations

WND

Brand strategy, digital marketing, social media, responsive web development, video production, animation, video marketing.

15

2017

Karen Bramhill, CXO Annik Daoust, COO Peter Georgariou, Founder and CEO

WND

Strategic Planning, Branding (design & messaging), Digital Marketing, Market Research, Campaign Ideation, Planning & Execution, Content Strategy and development, Copywriting, Creative Development, Digital Campaigns, Email Marketing

14

2016

John Bishop Veronique Soucy, Co-owners

WND

Bilingual full-service agency including: conventional/digital media strategy and placement, brand development, logo design, conventional and digital graphic design, word press website development.

TRUEdotDESIGN 100-145 Spruce St. Ottawa, ON K1R 6P1 613-800-8368 truedotdesign.com

Excentric Agency

390-300 Earl Grey Dr. Ottawa, ON K2T 1J4 613-435-8552 excentric.ca

13

Stiff

15

McMillan

16

Atomic Motion

16

Cayenne Creative

16 20

Ottawa principal(s)

Xactly Design & Advertising Inc.

Mediaplus Advertising

16

Year est. in Ottawa

Acart Communications

Orkestra Marketing

13

No. of local employees

Banfield Agency

4

12

(RANKED BY NUMBER OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES)

seoplus+

Alphabet Creative

4

MARKETING AND ADVERTISING AGENCIES

101-9 Gurdwara Rd. Ottawa, ON K2E 7X6 613-683-4102 stiff.ca 150 Elgin Street Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4 613-789-1234 mcmillan.com 111 York St. Ottawa, ON K1N 5T4 613-266-8841 atomicmotion.com 1343 Labrie Ave. Ottawa, ON K1B 3M2 613-288-2121 cayennecreative.ca

inMotion

474 Holland Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Y 0Z5 613-723-5800 / 613-723-5803 inmotion.ca

karmadharma

200-346 Richmond Rd. Ottawa, ON K2A 0E8 karmadharma.ca

B Media Shop

342 MacLaren St. Ottawa, ON K2P 0M6 613-237-5757 bmediashop.com

WND = Would not disclose

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21

Blackiron Agency

22

Aragona Agency

22

Initiate Marketing

22

Marketing Breakthroughs

400-300 Richmond Rd. Ottawa, ON K1Z 6X6 613-236-5444 blackiron.agency 108-600 Terry Fox Dr. Ottawa, ON K2L 4B6 613-836-1892 aragonaagency.com 130 Terence Matthews Cr. Ottawa, ON K2M 0J1 613-369-8333 www.getinitiated.ca 5 Beechwood Ave. Ottawa, ON K1M 2H9 613-721-3335 marketingbreakthroughs.com

25

SCS (Schiefer Chopshop)

26 27

Cyan Solutions

27 27

200-55 Murray St. Ottawa, ON K1N 5M3 613-699-6870 wearescs.com 200-58 Arthur St. Ottawa, ON K1R 7B9 613-860-4444 cyansolutions.com

(RANKED BY NUMBER OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES)

Year est. in Ottawa

Ottawa principal(s)

Notable current clients

Services offered

14

2001

Karen Moores, General Manager

Hard Rock Ottawa, Ottawa Airport Authority, Colonnade BridgePort, Accora Village, Brookstreet Hotel, Universal Appliances, Westboro Village BIA, Ottawa Tourism, Infinity Convention Centre, Geofirma Engineering, Produce Depot.

Full Service: branding, strategic planning, graphic design, creative strategy, writing, video/photography, advertising & campaign development, execution, media planning & buying, digital/social advertising, web design & development, direct marketing.

13

1992

Joe Abel, President / Creative Director

Solacom Comtech Eclipse Foundation American Tower iBwave Inseego Zenhub Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

Strategic and creative marketing services for B2B technology clients from six capability areas: Marketing Research and Analysis, Strategies, Writing and Content, Design, Digital Marketing, Program Management

13

2008

Michael Ball, Chief Creative Officer

BlackBerry QNX, Calian, SS&C Technologies, Entrust, Nokia, Coin Branding, Mercer, Trend Micro, Third Law Marketing, Sciemetric

Branding, corporate collateral (print and digital), video, trade show creative, infographics and full-service web design and development.

13 1

1996

André Mersereau, President and Creative Director

WND

Full-service marketing + lead generation agency. Integrated strategy, SEO, SEM, PPC, graphic design, social media, videography, photography, exhibits, print, signage, branding, content writing.

12

1999

Braden Bailey, Chief Operating Officer

Kwikset, Warner Bros, MobileX, BrandsMart USA, Aaron's, Falken Tire, Clive Coffee, Mothers Polish, College Football Hall of Fame, Realtree, Irvine Spectrum Retail Properties, SEMA, Nirvana Water, Vans

Performance Marketing, Creative, Media, Product & Platform Development, eCommerce, UX, Content, Social Media, Brand Solutions, Integrated Strategy, AI.

11

1994

Brent MacGillis, President

WND

Full-service Marketing agency featuring Design Website development, video production, Trade show planning and production and Marketing strategy and campaign execution.

10

2006

Alex Dorward, CEO

Bell Canada, Nokia, Health Canada, Mental Health Commission of Canada, Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, Enercare, Boldyn

Corporate communications, annual and strategic reports, blogs and articles, brand messaging and taglines, content/ editorial planning, copyediting and proofreading, event coverage and reporting, marketing campaigns etc.

10

2005

Scott Williams, CEO

WND

Virtual CMO & Marketing Managed Services

10

2010

Thomas Cumberbatch

Nike Habitat for Humanity International Diving Canada National Arts Centre Ottawa Redblacks/ Ottawa 67’s (OSEG)

Business strategy, brand strategy, personal branding, creative strategy, design, video/film production, commercial photography, marketing campaigns, executive team training and workshops, curated events and panels.

10

1987

Melanie Williams, Director

Range of Government of Canada clients, non-profits, Indigenous, and local SME's.

Strategy development, creative direction, brand and visual identity, graphic design, content creation, digital marketing.

Integrated products include traditional, web, digital, social media, video, book, magazine, and report publication services.

10

1996

Joe Bongiorno

WND

SEO, SEM, social media, PPC, web design, analytics

8

2010

Ryan Anderson Rene Antunes

Egg Farmers of Canada, Dominion City Brewing, City Seltzer, Almanac Grain

Brand design and development, web and mobile design and development, marketing strategy

7

2010

Daniel Mackinnon, Co-owners James Jefferson, CoOwner

Otto's BMW, Otto's Subaru, Bayshore Shopping Centre, Mapleview Shopping Centre, Ashbury College, Embassy Hotel & Suites, Cooper's Creative Kitchen, Southgate Shopping Centre, etc.

Strategic planning, brand development, media relations, media buying, promotional, product and brand launches, strategic advertising, promotion and publicity, web/graphic design, social media management, community relations

7

2017

Riaz Sidi

Calian, Stratford Group, Algonquin College, SAAS NORTH, Beechwood Cemetery, Atletico Ottawa, Mental Health Commission of Canada

Demand generation, digital marketing, performance marketing, lead generation, digital strategy, social media marketing, SEM, PPC, SEO

7

1990

John Saykali, President and Creative director

N/A

Branding, graphic and web design, marketing strategies, media planning and placement, advertising campaigns, awareness campaigns, print co-ordination, promotions/special events, trade show personnel and support services

5

2011

Robin Sauve, President

MetaLigna Modular, CRAFT Modular

Construction Industry Marketing - Elevate your brand & fix your marketing funnel with our fractional CMO program.

5

2012

Janna Glenn Jo Riding

The Canadian Tulip Festival, LeisureScapes, Green Corners, Green Thumb Garden Centre, Mermaid Pools, SantéPlus Research Associates, Sing House Studios, Blackburn Shoppes Dental Centre, The Ottawa Wedding Show

Graphic design, web design and development, e-commerce, social media management, 4K photography and videography, public relations, media buying, event production, online advertising and electronic direct mail

5

2007

Veronica Farmer, CEO and President

WND

Privacy Analytics, Lumibird, Novatech, Kanata North Business Association, TEDxKanata, BT Engineering, Seaspan, Sullivan, DILFO, Central Precast, M CON Products

4

2016

Stephane Trottier, Founder, Creative Director

WND

Website design and development, branding, digital marketing, print, signage

4

2012

Fadi Ghaby

Argyle Associates, Dsquared Construction, NCHCA

Skyfall Blue is a boutique agency specializing in social media marketing, copywriting, brand restructuring, online and offline advertising and website development.

Ascribe Marketing Inc. Ottawa, ON K1J 8H4 613-238-3595 ascribeinc.ca

EyeVero Marketing Communications Group Inc. 102 Coriolis Court Ottawa, ON K2S 0P3 613-260-3037 eyevero.com

Godzspeed Communications Inc. 299 Bank St. Ottawa, ON K2P 1X7 613-884-9673 godzspeed.com

27

gordongroup|TAAG

27

Mediaforce

32 33 33 33

Northern Army

36

Bamboo Branding

36

No. of local employees

MARKETING AND ADVERTISING AGENCIES

700-251 Bank St. Ottawa, ON K2P 1X3 613-907-8580 gordongroup.com

150 Elgin St. Floor 8 Ottawa, ON K2P1L4 613-729-0500 mediaforce.ca 487 Lewis St. Third Floor Ottawa, ON K2P 0T2 613-369-8370 northernarmy.com

Blackbook Lifestyle Ottawa, ON 613-889-5093 blackbooklifestyle.com

Sidi.io

200-440 Laurier Ave W Ottawa, ON K1R 7X6 sidi.io

Star Marketing Group 7-1149 Shillington Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Z 7Z3 613-759-4400 starmar.ca 6575 Fourth Line Rd Ottawa , ON K0A 2T0 613-277-1758 bamboobranding.com

Karma Creative Solutions

Ottawa, ON 613-276-1762 karmacreativesolutions.ca

36

TrueCourse

39 39

Fullview Design

11-300 Earl Grey Dr. suite 331 Ottawa, ON K2T 1C1 (613) 862-3346 truecourse.ca 407-207 Bank St. Ottawa, ON K2P 2N2 613-691-0800 fullview.ca

Skyfall Blue

Ottawa, ON 613-286-3289 skyfallblue.com

WND = Would not disclose

1

Did not respond to this year's survey in time for publication. This information is from previous years.

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TAP

is about Talent and Potential.

Clients come to TAP because we care about your success - and it shows.

We have the experience and team of certified professionals and other specialists to partner with you to help you achieve your goals.

UPGRADE YOUR HR For 17 years we’ve fostered long and lasting relationships with our clients, who return time and time again, and easily refer us to their colleagues and networks.

YOUR Essential HR Toolkit The NEW Standard for HR Services and Support.

End-to-End HR Programs and Services We are there for you as you Build, Strengthen, and Optimize your HR – in a way that works for you!

Organizational Design, Strategy + Workforce Planning Employee Policies and Handbooks Stay compliant with our affordable and easy to implement solutions.

Welcome@TAPstrategyandhr.com

TAP-IN TO YOUR MORE More influence and accomplishment, the next promotion or career move, or developing leadership competencies and acumen, or perhaps it is more simplicity and balance. Whatever your MORE is, we can help you TAP-IN and get to the MORE you want.

Coaching Experience the distinctively powerful and positive impacts of TAP Institute coaching using the TAP-IN to More methodology.

Team Development Leverage the outstanding, positive impacts of TAP Institute’s Team Development Programs which serve to meet complex objectives and drive greater team relationships and productivity.

More@TAPinstitute.ca

It starts with a simple phone call 613-222-2499 or email to explore how partnering with TAP will help you achieve your goals.

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300-979 Bank St. Ottawa, ON K2P 0C2 613-742-3220 boyden.ca

2 3

Stratford Group

4

Business Sherpa Group

5 7

550-55 Metcalfe St., Ottawa, ON K1P 6L5 613-230-9348 mercer.ca

100-350 Legget Dr. Kanata, ON K2K 2W7 613-288-2688 stratford.group (virtual HQ) Ottawa, ON K2H 8R2 613-656-3499 businesssherpagroup.com

6 Antares Drive, Phase I, Unit 8 Ottawa, ON K2E 8A9 613-745-6605 hrsg.ca

1445 Stittsville Main St Ottawa, ON K2S 1A6 613-291-5550 careerjoy.com

8

1110-340 Albert St., Ottawa, ON K1R 7Y6 613-728-5000 / 613-728-5534 aonhewitt.com 201-110 Didsbury Rd, Ottawa, ON K2T 0C2 613-222-2499 tapstrategyandhr.com 1301-155 Queen St. Ottawa, ON K1P 6L1 613-231-6666 odgersberndtson.com 515-135 Laurier Avenue W. Ottawa, ON K1P 5J2 613-238-4785 kornferry.com 201-1565 Carling Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Z 8R1 613-790-7561 / 613-230-1347 right.com

14 14

LHH

16 20

Major clients and sectors

Services offered

52

2

0

5 1995

Jim Harmon Michael Naufal

Technology, government, social impact, industry

Senior-level executive/board search, interim management and leadership/board advisory services.

Brad Smith Francois Picard

Public Sector, Crown Corporations, Private Sector, Not-for-Profit

Group health/wellness benefits, pension/ retirement savings/ investments, total rewards/ compensation design, pay equity, employee engagement/ digital platforms, change management, workday implementation

50

0

50

11 1945

45

8

5

WND 2008

Mike D'Amico Dean Fulford Pierre Cote

Tech, associations, municipalities, not-for-profits, healthcare, Crown corporations, financial services

Talent management, compensation/total rewards, change management, organization design, leadership development, interim HR services, recruitment, organizational development, employee engagement, HR strategy.

Margo Crawford, Founder & Chair Todd Luckasavitch, CEO

Ottawa Senators Hockey Club Pirurvik Preschool Welch LLP

Regulatory compliance, HR policy, onboarding and offboarding, compensation/organization reviews, payroll, benefits, staff engagement, senior HR leadership, professional development, recruitment/executive search.

44

55

7

WND 2008

25

WND

WND

WND 1989

Suzanne Simpson, CEO Lorraine McKay, CMO

Logistics, finance, accounting, technology, HSE, HR, manufacturing, sales and marketing

Development and implementation of frameworks for competency-based management, career pathing, employment testing, assessment, and licensure.

25

10

5

WND 1999

Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO

Government, education, healthcare, not-for-profits, financial, technology

TalentMap helps organizations harness the insights of employees to increase engagement, develop inspiring leaders, make the organization more effective and ensure it is a great place to work.

Claire Cotton, Director of Operations Alan Kearns, Managing Partner

Technology, Healthcare, Financial services, Manufacturing, Non-profit, Government, Municipalities

Culture development (agility, coaching, learning, belonging, performance); leadership development (commitment, character, competencies); restructuring & outplacement; recruitment/ retention strategy

Kristina Hendren Simon Tardif

WND

Benefits, pension, talent, rewards, communication, strategy, commercial risk.

21

60

1

WND 2002

13

WND

WND

WND

13

2

8

3 2006

Bruce Weippert, CHRE, President Terri Harrison, President

Government; healthcare; notfor-profit; tech; community and social services; associations; construction.

End-to-end HR services, HR program development, leadership coaching, organizational review/design; workforce planning; change management, compensation planning/design; policies.

12

0

0

WND 1990

Eric Slankis Michael Williams

Government; non-profit and associations; healthcare; public sector; aerospace; defence; tech

Senior Level Executive Search, Leadership Assessment and Consulting, Executive Coaching; Interim Placements, and Governance Consulting and Board Recruitment.

10

0

2

WND 1989

Jan Kennedy, Senior Client Partner

Public sector; Crown corporations; mining industry/ natural resources; tech; pharmaceutical

Talent management; career frameworks; recruitment; leadership assessments; coaching; succession; executive pay/governance; pay benchmarks; job evaluation.

6

4

2

WND 1980

Gary Fehr, VP Client Services

WND

Outplacement; career transition; career development; talent management services including assessment and leadership development programs; executive coaching; performance and succession management.

5

0

3

1 2002

Tim McConnell, Managing Partner

NGOs; Non-Profit Organizations; Associations; Agencies.

Compensation Management; Organizational Analysis and Design; HR strategy.

Marc Valois Alain Rabeau Sue Perron

Public sector; private sector and Crown corporations

Employee and stakeholder engagement; organizational development and learning; strategic planning; performance alignment; cultural transformation; tech-enabled collaboration; coaching; conflict management.

Right Management

Intersol Group

16

Key local executive(s)

Korn Ferry

13

16

No. of Canadian offices/ Year founded

Odgers Berndtson

McConnell HR Consulting Inc.

16

No. of CHRP/ CHRL/CHRE certified staff

CareerJoy

TAP

12

No. of contract staff

TalentMap

500-1000 Innovation Rd. Ottawa, ON K2L 1T9 613-801-1999 talentmap.com

8

11

No. of local employees

Human Resource Systems Group

Aon Canada Inc.

10

(RANKED BY NUMBER OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES)

Boyden

Mercer (Canada) Limited

5

HR CONSULTING FIRMS

204-555 Legget Drive, Tower A, Ottawa, ON K2K 2X3 613-592-7578 mcconnellhrc.com 343 Preston Street, 11th Floor Ottawa, ON K1S 1N4 613-230-6424 / 613-567-1504 Intersol.ca 116 Albert St., 2nd floor Ottawa, ON K1P 5G3 613-369-5405 LHH.com

Andre Filion & Associates Inc.

Ottawa, ON K1P 5H9 613-230-7023 / 613-230-7390 filion.ca

4

15

0

WND 1989

4

4

6

WND 1967

Margo Hoyt Nancy Oakes

Public sector; Crown corps; government agencies; tech; manufacturing; retail; finance; transportation

Culture & Leadership Consulting; Diagnostic & Assessment;Leadership Coaching; Career transition & mobility; Employee engagement; Change management; recruitment solutions, Executive Career Transition.

3

2

1

2 1985

Jean-François Denis, President

WND

Coaching and developing talent; assessment of potential and selection; career management and transition; organizational health

3

0

2

1 2000

Lynn Cameron Suzanne Harrison

Technology, Not-for-Profit, Financial and Insurance. Key Partnerships with tech hubs in Ontario and Victoria

National compensation survey for the Technology, Not-for-profit, and Finance Sectors; Pay Equity Consulting.

3

2

0

WND 1987

Lynne Tyler, partner Joan Riggs, Partner

Non-profit organizations

Organizational development; HR policies, tools and strategic advice in the context of larger organizational goals and initiatives.

3

4

3

WND 2016

Karen Brownrigg, Founder and CEO

CHBA; Child and Nature Alliance of Canada; Drug Free Kids Canada; Carleton University; uOttawa

HR support and advisory services; executive coaching; organizational design and business growth strategies.

8

WND 2014

Tara Azulay Kevin Barwin, Founding Partners

Private Sector, Not-for-Profit, Federal & Municipal Government.

Employee transition support (outplacement); leadership & team development (coaching & facilitated workshops); DEI services; wellness workshops; workplace investigation & restoration, general HR consulting services

BenchMarket

500-1000 Innovation Dr. Ottawa, ON K2K 3E7 343-803-0975 benchmarket.ca

Catalyst Research & Communications

78 Delaware Ave. Ottawa, ON K2P 0Z3 613-565-4081 / 613-565-9229 catalystottawa.com

iHR Advisory Services 201-1685 Russell Rd. Ottawa, ON K1G 0N1 613-686-6364 ihradvisoryservices.ca

Clariti Group Inc.

150 Elgin Street, 10th Floor Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4 613-656-2010 claritigroup.ca

2

50

WND = Would not disclose

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THE LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW EXPERTS

Emond Harnden is trusted, not simply as advisors, but as an integrated member of our clients’ HR departments and senior management teams. We are devoted exclusively to advising management on labour relations and employment matters. It’s a forward-thinking approach to labour law.

ABOUT US

À PROPOS DE NOUS

As a boutique labour and employment law firm, Emond Harnden has represented the interests of management in both official languages since 1987.

Emond Harnden est un cabinet d'avocats en droit du travail et de l’emploi qui représente exclusivement les intérêts des employeurs, dans les deux langues officielles, depuis 1987.

AN INTEGRAL PART OF YOUR TEAM PARTIE INTÉGRANTE DE VOTRE ÉQUIPE

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1

707 Bank St. Ottawa, ON K1S 3V1 613-563-7660 / 613-563-8001 ehlaw.ca

2 3

RavenLaw LLP

1400-340 Albert St. Ottawa, ON K1R 0A5 613-238-2022 / 613-238-8775 perlaw.ca 1600-220 Laurier Ave. West Ottawa, ON K1P 5Z9 613-567-2901 / 613-567-2921 ravenlaw.com

4

Nelligan Law

5

Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP

5

Hicks Morley

5

Kelly Santini LLP

8

Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP

8

Soloway Wright LLP

11 11 11

300-50 O'Connor St. Ottawa, ON K1P 6L2 613-238-8080 / 613-238-2098 nelliganlaw.ca 2600-160 Elgin St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1C3 613-233-1781 / 613-563-9869 gowlingwlg.com

2000-150 Metcalfe St. Ottawa, ON K2P 1P1 613-234-0386 / 613-234-0418 hicksmorley.com 2401-160 Elgin St. Ottawa, ON K2P 2P7 613-238-6321 / 613-233-4553 kellysantini.com 1500-45 O'Connor St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4 613-780-8661 / 613-230-5459 nortonrosefulbright.com 700-427 Laurier Ave. W. Ottawa, ON K1R 7Y2 613-236-0111 / 613-238-8507 solowaywright.com

No. of labour or employment lawyers

Head of local employment practice

Year established in Ottawa

1300-55 Metcalfe St. Ottawa, ON K1P 6L5 613-236-3882 / 613-230-6423 fasken.com

Lynn Harnden Jacques Emond

1987

Employment and labour law for unionized and non-unionized employers, wrongful dismissal claims, human rights and harassment complaints, human resources training, employment contracts, workplace policies, sick leave management, WSIB, OHS.

25

Joël M. Dubois

1971

Grievance arbitration, pay equity, judicial review, disciplinary proceedings, employment contracts, wrongful dismissals, human rights, labour relations, collective bargaining, disability claims, employment disputes and recruitment practices.

22

Kim Patenaude

1992

Union-side labour law, employment law, human rights law (including pay equity), constitutional law (including the Charter) and judicial review of government action.

16

Janice Payne

1963

Wrongful dismissal, severance packages, constructive dismissal, layoffs, employment contracts, human rights and discrimination, harassment and workplace violence, union representation, class actions, pension, benefits, occupational health and safety, employment standards.

8

Mark Josselyn

1887

Counsel and representation in multiple aspects of employment law, labour relations, human rights, respect and safety in the workplace, and employment standards.

8

Siobhan O'Brien, Partner

2001

Human resources law and advocacy for employers. Full service in both official languages, with expertise in pension and benefits law; litigation; regulatory prosecutions; WSIB matters.

8

Sean Bawden , Partner

1976

Employment contracts, termination packages and wrongful dismissal, noncompete and non-solicitation clauses, employment policies and procedures, employment standards claims, human rights, discrimination, and disability.

71

Tate McLeod

1984

Full-service management-side: employment contracts/disputes, pay and employment equity, wrongful dismissals, human rights, labour relations, grievance arbitrations, OHS, severance packages, executive compensation/liability, collective bargaining, disability claims, recruitment.

7

Alan Riddell

1946

Temporary lay-offs, restructuring or terminations, wrongful/constructive dismissals, severance packages, disability claims, confidentiality agreements, nonsolicitation agreements and non-competition agreements, misconduct, harassment and workplace violence investigations

6

Sébastien Lorquet

1980

Strategic advice and representation for Employers in all areas of labour relations, employment law and human rights: wrongful/constructive dismissal; arbitration; collective bargaining; organizing and certification; workplace investigations; restructuring; employment agreements; compensation.

4

Caroline Richard

1999

Management-side labour and employment law providing advice and representation on human rights, workers' compensation, labour relations, occupational health and safety, collective bargaining, workplace violence/ harassment investigations.

4

Dan Palayew

1952

Full service: employment contracts, wrongful dismissals, human rights, severance package advice, executive compensation/liability, collective bargaining, disability claims, employment disputes, benefit plans, occupational health and safety, harassment, arbitrations, union organizing.

4

David Spears

1989

Employment contracts, non-disclosure and non-compete contracts, wrongful dismissal, pay equity, workers' compensation, employment standards, human rights, disability insurance claims.

4

Paul Champ

2009

Employee-side representation in all areas of the law, including wrongful and constructive dismissal, severance advice, privacy, and human rights. Also federal public-sector labour law.

4

Martin Thompson

1905

Advises on all aspects of provincial and federal employment legislation, including employment contracts, executive compensation, workplace harassment, wrongful dismissal litigation, employee termination and severance packages, human rights and workplace health and safety.

4

Dana Tierney

1982

Full service except collective bargaining.

3

Catherine Coulter

1985

Full-service firm: wrongful dismissal, corporate reorganization, employment contracts, executive compensation, employment practices/standards, hiring and termination procedures, privacy and restrictive covenants, COVID-19.

3

David Capra

1990

Employment contracts, wrongful dismissals, human rights, severance package advice, executive compensation and liability, disability claims, employment disputes.

2

Barbara Nicholls Christopher Rutherford

1938

Full-service firm: employment contracts, wrongful dismissal, human rights, labour relations, collective bargaining, arbitration, judicial review, workplace investigations, severance packages, privacy.

2

Travis Ujjainwalla

1994

Advises and assists employers, employees and unions to manage all aspects of the employement/labour relationship. Also provides human rights-related legal assistance to service providers.

Bird Richard

508-130 Albert St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5G4 613-238-3772 / 613-238-5955 lawyersforemployers.ca

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

1300-100 Queen St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1J9 613-237-5160 / 613-787-3558 blg.com

Brazeau Seller LLP

700-100 Queen St. Ottawa, ON K1J 1J9 613-237-4000 / 613-237-4001 brazeauseller.com

11 11

McMillan LLP

11

Tierney Stauffer LLP

43 Florence St. Ottawa, ON K2P 0W6 613-237-2441 / 613-232-2680 champlaw.ca 2000-45 O'Connor St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4 613-232-7171 / 613-231-3191 mcmillan.ca 510-1600 Carling Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Z 0A1 613-728-8057 / 613-728-9866 tslawyers.ca

17

Dentons Canada LLP

17

LMS Lawyers LLP

19

Low Murchison Radnoff LLP

1420-99 Bank St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1H4 613-783-9600 / 613-783-9690 dentons.com 190 O'Connor St., 9th floor Ottawa, ON K2P 2R3 613-230-5787 / 613-230-8563 lmslawyers.com 400-1565 Carling Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Z 8R1 613-236-9442 / 613-236-7942 lmrlawyers.com

Mann Lawyers LLP

300-11 Holland Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Y 4S1 613-722-1500 / 613-722-7677 mannlawyers.com

WND = Would not disclose

1

Services offered

45

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP

Champ & Associates

19

(RANKED BY NUMBER OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT LAWYERS PRACTICING LOCALLY)

Emond Harnden LLP

Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP/s.r.l.

10

LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW FIRMS

Did not repond to this year's survey in time for publication. This information is from previous years.

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THE LIST Company/Address Phone/Fax/Web

1 2

2600-160 Elgin St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1C3 613-233-1781 / 613-563-9869 gowlingwlg.com

4

Emond Harnden LLP

5

Kelly Santini LLP

6

Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP

7

Soloway Wright LLP

8

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP

9

Mann Lawyers LLP

10

Dentons Canada LLP

1400-340 Albert St. Ottawa, ON K1R 0A5 613-238-2022 / 613-238-8775 perlaw.ca

707 Bank St. Ottawa, ON K1S 3V1 613-563-7660 / 613-563-8001 ehlaw.ca 2401-160 Elgin St. Ottawa, ON K2P 2P7 613-238-6321 / 613-233-4553 kellysantini.com 1500-45 O'Connor St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4 613-780-8661 / 613-230-5459 nortonrosefulbright.com 700-427 Laurier Ave. W. Ottawa, ON K1R 7Y2 613-236-0111 / 613-238-8507 solowaywright.com 1300-55 Metcalfe St. Ottawa, ON K1P 6L5 613-236-3882 / 613-230-6423 fasken.com 300-11 Holland Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Y 4S1 613-722-1500 / 613-722-7677 mannlawyers.com 1420-99 Bank St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1H4 613-783-9600 / 613-783-9690 dentons.com 900-55 Metcalfe Street, P.O. Box 2999, Station D Ottawa, ON K1P 5Y6 613-232-2486 / 613-232-8440 smartbiggar.ca 400-1565 Carling Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Z 8R1 613-236-9442 / 613-236-7942 lmrlawyers.com

14

Brazeau Seller LLP

17 17 19 20

No. of national lawyers/ No. of national support staff/ No. of national offices

Key local executive/ Year established in Ottawa

231

364 1

827 1,213 7

Wayne Warren 1887

Full-service firm with local, national and international capabilities. Advises private and public companies of all sizes/stages of development, not-for profit entities, and government/public sector on business law, advocacy and intellectual property.

88

WND WND

WND WND 5

Larry Elliot 1952

Full-service law firm with expertise in business law, litigation/dispute resolution and intellectual property solutions.

53

60 1

53 60 1

Anthony P. McGlynn Aaron Rubinoff 1971

Full-service law firm specializing in: business law, commercial disputes, labour and employment law, commercial real estate development, intellectual property, immigration, tax, personal legal needs, police law, international arbitration.

51

WND WND

WND WND WND

Steven Herzog 1987

Management-side employment and labour law, wrongful dismissal claims, human rights and harassment complaints, human resources training, employment contracts, workplace policies and sick leave management, WSIB, OHS, pension and benefits.

45

54 2

WND WND WND

Kelly Sample 1976

ADR, bankruptcy and insolvency, business law, construction and development, employment law, estate and trust planning, estate administration, family law, insurance law, litigation and dispute resolution, not-for-profit, real estate.

44 1

WND WND

WND WND WND

Pierre-Paul Henrie 1984

Antitrust and competition, banking and finance, construction, corporate, M&A and securities, environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG), Insurance, IP, real estate

35

WND WND

WND WND WND

Chris Edwards Iwona Albrecht Charlie Honeywell 1946

Since opening its doors in 1946, Soloway Wright LLP has established a proud history of serving its clients and community. Today, they build on that history while always looking to the future for how to best meet the needs of their clients—now and tom

33

16 1

912 922 7

Scott Prescott Virginia Schweitzer 1980

Communications, business, procurement, national security, litigation, labour, employment and human rights, international trade, anti-bribery and corruption, intellectual property, competition, public law, government relations and ethics, privacy

31

WND WND

WND WND WND

Heather Austin-Skaret Andre Martin 1994

Business, commercial leasing, commercial and residential real estate, employment and labour, civil and commercial litigation, construction law, wills and estates, franchise, family, personal injury, environmental law

30

WND WND

WND WND WND

David P. Little 1985

Regulatory matters, public policy, venture tech, fintech, litigation and dispute resolution, real estate, banking, lending, intellectual property, employment law, securities, telecommunications, privacy, marketing, labelling.

28

134 1

90 256 4

Matthew Zischka 1906

Patents, Trademarks & Brand Protection, Copyright & Media, Industrial Designs, Litigation & Enforcement, Licensing & IP Transactions, Life Sciences, IP Management & Strategic Counselling, Marketing & Advertising, Domain Names & Internet Law

27

35 1

WND WND WND

Michael L. Wong 1938

Business/corporate/commercial, financing, real estate, education, civil/commercial litigation, licensing, construction, franchising, employment/labour, personal injury/disability, family, wills/trusts/estate planning, procurement and immigration.

25

35 2

WND WND WND

Sophie Parisien 1993

Full service including: business law, family law, real estate law, litigation and dispute resolution, intellectual property, wills and estates, employment law, mediation.

24

36 1

WND WND WND

Fred Seller 1989

Mergers & acquisitions, cannabis law, corporate & commercial law, employment law, family business, trademarks, litigation, municipal & development law, non-profit & charity law, real estate law & development, tax law, wills & estates

23

42 1

559 WND 5

Donna White 1946

National law firm including IP, pharmaceutical litigation, technology, corporate finance and securities, mergers and acquisitions, taxation, regulatory law, privacy law, national and cross-border services.

20

12 1

WND WND WND

Kim Patenaude 1992

Labour and employment law, human rights, disability benefits, health and safety, professional discipline, pension and retirement benefits, whistleblower protection.

18

WND WND

310 WND 6

Martin Thompson 1905

McMillan is a leading business law firm serving public, private and not-for-profit clients across key industries in Canada, the United States and internationally.

18

22 1

0 0 0

Susan Mitchell 1982

Corporate and commercial law, commercial litigation, employment law, construction law, tax law, wills and estates, personal injury, residential real estate.

15

6 1

WND WND WND

Rachel Robert 2009

Corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration, public, administrative and regulatory law.

14

16 3

WND WND 4

David Capra Tracy Corcoran Ms. 1990

Personal injury, criminal law, family law, civil litigation, real estate, wills and estates, estate litigation, medical malpractice, corporate/commercial, employment law.

Low Murchison Radnoff LLP

13

16

No. of local support staff/ No. of local offices

Smart & Biggar

Sicotte Guilbault LLP

15

No. of local lawyers

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

1300-100 Queen St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1J9 613-237-5160 / 613-787-3558 blg.com

3

12

(RANKED BY NUMBER OF LOCAL LAWYERS)

Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP

Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP/s.r.l.

11

LAW FIRMS

1-5925 boul. Jeanne D'Arc Blvd.

Ottawa, ON K1C 6V8 613-837-7408 sicotte.ca 700-100 Queen St. Ottawa, ON K1J 1J9 613-237-4000 / 613-237-4001 brazeauseller.com

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP 230-100 Queen St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1J9 613-235-7234 / 613-235-2867 osler.com

RavenLaw LLP

1600-220 Laurier Ave. West Ottawa, ON K1P 5Z9 613-567-2901 / 613-567-2921 ravenlaw.com

McMillan LLP

2000-45 O'Connor St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4 613-232-7171 / 613-231-3191 mcmillan.ca

Tierney Stauffer LLP

510-1600 Carling Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Z 0A1 613-728-8057 / 613-728-9866 tslawyers.ca

Conway Baxter Wilson LLP 400-411 Roosevelt Ave. Ottawa, ON K2A 3X9 613-288-0149 info@conwaylitigation.ca

LMS Lawyers LLP

190 O'Connor St., 9th floor Ottawa, ON K2P 2R3 613-230-5787 / 613-230-8563 lmslawyers.com

WND = Would not disclose

1

Services offered

Did not respond to this year's survey in time for publication. This information is from previous years.

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Supporting your big ideas Your intellectual property means everything to you. Make sure you protect every facet of it. Osler’s Intellectual Property team has the expertise to support all aspects of your IP portfolio. From patents and trademarks to domain names and copyright, our team combines legal expertise, analystical skills and a business-savvy approach to help you protect the value of your big ideas.

For more information about Osler’s Intellectual Property practice, visit osler.com/ip J. Bradley White Chair, National Intellectual Property Department

Donna White Ottawa Managing Partner

Key Contact: Patents, IP Litigation

dwhite@osler.com

bwhite@osler.com

Key Contact: Trademarks

Our office in Ottawa is located at 100 Queen Street, World Exchange Plaza.

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt llp Toronto Montréal Calgary Ottawa Vancouver New York osler.com

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1 2 3 4 5

2600-160 Elgin St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1C3 613-233-1781 / 613-563-9869 gowlingwlg.com

900-55 Metcalfe Street, P.O. Box 2999, Station D Ottawa, ON K1P 5Y6 613-232-2486 / 613-232-8440 smartbiggar.ca

Local managing partner

Year est. in Ottawa

Notable clients

Specialty areas

1887

Local, national and international businesses of all sizes/stages of development, public sector/ government agencies, academic/ research institutions, inventors.

Patents, industrial designs, trademarks, copyrights, IP litigation. Key sectors include pharma, biotech, technology, manufacturing.

Patents, trademarks, copyright and media, industrial designs, litigation, licensing and IP transactions, life sciences (regulatory and compliance), IP management and strategic counselling.

Stuart Ash

Wayne Warren

34

Jonas Gifford Jean-Sébastien Dupont Graham Hood Daphne Lainson

Matthew Zischka

1906

Universities, SMEs, large/ multinational companies innovating in: computer hardware/software, AI, telecom; industrial/mechanical engineering and life sciences/ biotech.

18

Andrew Sojonky

Larry Elliot

1952

Research laboratories, biotech and high tech involving research and development startups, government, fortune 500 companies

Patents, trademarks, industrial design, copyright, domain names, chemical engineering, computer technology, bioscience, IT, telecom, IP litigation, licensing

17

Randy Marusyk

Randy Marusyk Scott Miller

1994

Proctor & Gamble, Huawei, AVON, Cuban Government - Cohiba, UHaul, Abbott, Sierra Wireless, Plasco, Tweed

Practice solely in IP: patents, trademarks, copyrights, industrial designs, licensing and IP, transactions, litigation/dispute resolution, regulatory practice, trade-secret programs, due diligence

15

Victoria Carrington Chantal Bertoša

Victoria Carrington Chantal Bertoša

1963

Canadian and international clients in all industry sectors, including tech startups to SMSEs to Fortune 500 companies.

AI, cannabis, pharma/biotech, chemical, petrochem, cleantech, software/information systems, data security applications, semiconductor circuit design and manufacturing.

14

Joe Ulvr

Joe Ulvr

1970

Canadian and multi-national companies, individual inventors, government agencies

Patents, trademarks, copyright and industrial designs, prosecution.

12

Catherine Lovrics David Ruston

James Baker Jonathan Colombo

1921

New ventures to multinational corporations, universities, other research institutions and individuals.

IP portfolio management; patents, trademarks, copyright and media, industrial design, litigation, licensing, marketing & advertising and privacy.

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

1300-100 Queen St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1J9 613-237-5160 / 613-787-3558 blg.com

MBM Intellectual Property Law LLP

1400-275 Slater St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5H9 613-567-0762 / 613-563-7671 mbm.com

Aventum IP Law LLP

104-555 Legget Dr., Tower A Ottawa, ON K2K 2X3 613-232-5300 / 613-563-9231 aventum.law

7

Marks & Clerk Canada

8

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

9

Andrews Robichaud PC

9

Stikeman Elliott LLP

715 - 11 Holland Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Y 4S1 613-232-7302 / 613-235-2508 moffatco.com 1900-180 Kent St. Ottawa, ON K1P 0B6 613-236-9561 / 613-230-8821 marks-clerk.com 230-100 Queen St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1J9 613-235-7234 / 613-235-2867 osler.com 215-1673 Carling Ave. Ottawa, ON K2A 1C4 613-237-1512 / 613-237-9580 andrewsrobichaud.com 1600-50 O'Connor St. Ottawa, ON K1P 6L2 613-234-4555 / 613-230-8877 stikeman.com 1400-340 Albert St. Ottawa, ON K1R 0A5 613-238-2022 / 613-238-8775 perlaw.ca

12 12

Miltons IP

15

Cassan Maclean IP Agency Inc.

15

Nelligan Law

700-225 Metcalfe St. Ottawa, ON K2P 1P9 613-232-0227 / 613-232-0542 fs.ca 200-15 Fitzgerald Rd. Ottawa, ON K2H 9G1 613-567-7824 / 613-567-4689 miltonsip.com 710-190 O'Connor St. Ottawa, ON K2P 2R3 613-238-6404 / 613-230-8755 cassanmaclean.com

300-50 O'Connor St. Ottawa, ON K1P 6L2 613-238-8080 / 613-238-2098 nelliganlaw.ca

Donna White

1946

7

Pierre Robichaud Mike Andrews

Pierre Robichaud Mike Andrews

2003

71

Justine Whitehead

Justine Whitehead

1981

WND

Copyrights, data protection, industrial designs, infringement, patents, registration of trademarks, patents, industrial designs, and copyrights, regulatory approvals, trade secrets, trademarks.

6

Alain D. Bourassa

Anthony P. McGlynn Aaron Rubinoff, Co-chairs

1971

Corel, Energizer Brands, North Face, Ralph Lauren, Club Monaco, Blackberry

Patents; trade-marks; copyrights; industrial designs; licensing; trade secrets; validity and infringement searches; opinions and related litigation

4

Natalie Raffoul, Managing Attorney

Natalie Raffoul, Managing Attorney

2008

Government agencies; multinational companies; universities; Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and London SMEs and startups

IP portfolio management, licensing and dispute resolution; patent drafting and prosecution for telecom, electronic, software, mechanical, medical; copyright, trademark and design registration

41

John Singlehurst Hugh Campbell

John C. Singlehurst, Senior Manager

1989

International and local clients

Patents; trademarks; industrial designs

41

Neil Milton, Partner

Neil Milton, Partner

2000

WND

Full-service intellectual property law firm and patent and trademark agency; licensing; domestic and foreign protection strategy; litigation and commercialization.

3

J. David Barrans Chris Dejardin Johanna Coutts

Chris Dejardin

2002

Multinational companies, Canadian companies, individual inventors

Patents; trademarks; industrial designs; copyright; domain names; plant breeders' rights; intellectual property opinions; licensing; agreements; transfers and enforcement

3

Wing T. Yan

Mia Hempey, Chief Operating Officer

1963

Entrepreneurs; inventors; international, national and local businesses; public sector; organizations; government agencies

Multi-service including: employment law, labour law, family law, litigation, personal injury law, real estate and development, business law, intellectual property, estates law, insurance law, and Indigenous law.

2

Fred E. Seller

Fred Seller, Partner

1989

WND

Technology transfer and licensing agreements; Internet law; domain name and trademark disputes; entertainment law; trade secrets; employee confidentiality and IP rights agreements All areas of IP law, including: copyright; trademarks; patents; protection of trade secrets and confidential information; domain names; focused services: licensing and litigation; IP transactional support and financial services.

Trademarks

Brazeau Seller LLP

700-100 Queen St. Ottawa, ON K1J 1J9 613-237-4000 / 613-237-4001 brazeauseller.com

17

Dentons Canada LLP

19

Flansberry Menard & Associates

1420-99 Bank St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1H4 613-783-9600 / 613-783-9690 dentons.com 105-2283 St-Laurent Blvd Ottawa, ON K1G 5A2 613-234-5280 / 613-236-4064 trade-mark.ca

WND = Would not disclose

1

Patents, trademarks, copyrights, domain name disputes, industrial design, plant breeders' rights, IP litigation, pharma, biotech, chemistry and mechanical, chemical and software engineering

J. Bradley White Donna White

Brion Raffoul Intellectual Property Law

329 Churchill Ave. N Ottawa, ON K1Z 5B8 613-521-8844 / 613-249-7207 brionraffoul.com

Canadian and multinational companies in pharmaceuticals, technology, biotech, life sciences, apparel, electronics, consumer products, entertainment, sports, food services Local, regional, domestic and international clients in the fields of tech, life sciences, chemical, industrial, R&D, entertainment, fashion, and consumer products and services.

8

Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP/s.r.l.

Finlayson & Singlehurst

17

Head of patent and trademark practice

54

Smart & Biggar

6

12

(RANKED BY NUMBER OF LOCAL PATENT AND TRADEMARK AGENTS)

Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP

Moffat & Co.

11

No. of local patent and trademark agents

PATENT AND TRADEMARK FIRMS

2

Jennifer E. McKay

David P. Little

1985

International and local companies, including local high-tech companies.

1

Roy MacHaalany, Lawyer

Roy MacHaalany, Lawyer

1977

WND

Full service domestic and international firm focused on the protection, enforcement, exploitation, financing and commercialization of intellectual property and other knowledge-based assets.

Did not repond to this year's survey in time for publication. This information is from previous years.

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BUSINESS SERVICES

CFO of the Year Nathalie Cadieux talks work, community and family

BY JEFF BUCKSTEIN

W

ith the demand for public health care outpacing the ability of the system to keep up, Nathalie Cadieux’s job as executive vice-president and chief financial officer of The Ottawa Hospital has never been so challenging, says the CFO of the Year for 2023.

“Demands on our services have never been this high,” she says. “They were high before the pandemic, but the pandemic really heightened that because of some of the slowdowns that occurred and also just the lack of primary care in general.

“The demand far exceeds our financial capacity and I think that’s true for the entire health-care sector, not just The Ottawa Hospital. We want so much to do more, but we are limited by that and by our funder, the Ministry of Health,” she explains.

Cadieux was born in Montreal and grew up in Gatineau. After graduating from the Université du Québec en Outaouais with a degree in business administration and accounting, she began her career as an auditor in the Ottawa office of KPMG LLP, while studying to become a chartered accountant.

She earned her CA designation in 1996 and became a CPA, CA when the Canadian accounting profession merged a decade ago.

Cadieux recalls how, when she started her career, finance opportunities for women, including the prospect of securing a partnership at a major accounting firm, were limited. “I really couldn’t see a long-term career there for myself,” she says.

In 1998, she moved into the health-care industry, becoming a financial analyst at Bruyère Continuing Care. Two years later, she accepted a position as joint controller for the Hawkesbury General Hospital and

Winchester District Memorial Hospital.

“As a finance professional, I probably could have worked in any industry, but I chose health care because of the focus on people and giving back to the community.

That, to me, is so rewarding,” says Cadieux.

She began her tenure at TOH in 2002 as manager of budget and reporting, was promoted to director of budgeting and reporting in 2005, and returned as corporate financial controller in 2010 after working for one year at the Université du Québec en Outaouais as director of finance.

Cadieux became executive vice-president and CFO at TOH in 2015 and has steadily increased her responsibilities in that senior portfolio.

Today, she has responsibility for all of the hospital’s finance functions, procurement and supply chain, business development, and part of its human resources portfolio.

“When I started in 2002, after the merger of the four hospitals — General, Civic, Riverside and Grace — the annual budget was around $400 million. It’s grown close to $1.6 billion. It continues to grow because we’re adding more beds and we’re adding more programs,” she says.

“Nathalie is an integral part of our leadership team at The Ottawa Hospital,” says TOH president and CEO Cameron Love.

“Since becoming executive vice-president and chief financial officer, Nathalie has strengthened and improved the financial position of our organization, provided exceptional leadership within TOH and across the province, developed strong community partnerships, and prepared us well as we build our new campus and plan for the future of health care,” says Love. “She is so deserving of this recognition.”

Cadieux was chosen CFO of the Year by the Ottawa

Business Journal and the Ottawa Board of Trade.

“I’m so honoured,” says Cadieux, 52. “Going to work every day is not a chore. I love my job. And so to get this award is just a huge bonus.”

Cadieux participates in discussions with various stakeholders, including other accounting firms, on how best to support hospital reporting and accounting.

“Since I’ve been CFO in 2015, I’ve been focusing on improving the financial health of the organization. Our financial health has definitely improved and this has positioned us really well for the upcoming (Civic) hospital redevelopment, which will be huge and will require a lot of financing and investment,” Cadieux says.

According to estimates, the construction of the Ottawa Hospital’s new Civic campus is expected to pump nearly $2 billion into the local economy and create more than 4,000 full-time jobs annually over the four-year life of the project.

The massive infrastructure project has a total price tag of about $2.8 billion. Construction of the 2.5-millionsquare-foot health-care facility at Dow’s Lake is slated to begin in 2024 and wrap up in 2028.

Away from the office, Cadieux and her husband Norman have three sons — Mathieu, 25, who is also a CPA; Samuel, 22; and Alexis, 18.

“I’m the proud mother of three boys. I’m also a football and a hockey mom. We’re huge fans of the Ottawa Senators and the Ottawa Redblacks,” she says.

Cadieux places a strong emphasis on fitness and health, working out every morning at the gym to keep physically and mentally sharp.

“My other passion is travelling. Europe is probably my favourite destination,” she says.

Cadieux recently became a board member with the Canadian Mental Health Association in Ottawa and serves on its finance committee.

“I’ve got over 25 years of experience and I really want to give back,” she says.

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REAL ESTATE

SECTOR INSIGHTS

Tenants seeing best deals in years in ‘highly competitive’ office market

BY DAVID SALI

W

ith tenants ditching office space across the city, the real cost of rent is falling to levels not seen in years as landlords offer discounts and other inducements to fill vacancies, industry insiders say.

While headline rental rates haven’t budged much during the pandemic, real estate observers acknowledge that many clients are now paying less for office space in Ottawa than they were in the pre-COVID era.

Across the National Capital Region, landlords are offering “significant incentives” to tenants, such as months of free rent and more capital to help pay for renovations, says Hugh Gorman, CEO of Colonnade BridgePort, the city’s largest privately owned property management firm.

“Those things have always been there, but they’re just a little more aggressive now,” the veteran real estate executive explains.

“I think you’ve got to be in tune with what’s happening in the market. I think any landlord that’s not being creative and being aggressive is falling behind very quickly. It is about occupancy right now and kind of weathering the storm.”

Indeed, Ottawa is a tenant’s market, from downtown to the tech hub of Kanata, as office towers have hollowed out amid the shift to hybrid and remote work under COVID-19.

The capital’s overall office vacancy rate rose to 13.6 per cent in the second quarter, according to real estate firm CBRE, up from 12.3 per cent the previous quarter.

Landlords in the downtown core have been particularly hard hit, with the vacancy rate reaching 15.1 per cent in the quarter ended in June. That compares with 6.5 per cent at the end of 2019, before the pandemic struck.

As a result, building owners are scrambling to offer various inducements — and bargain-hunting tenants are taking full advantage.

“I think (tenants) see the opportunity in the marketplace

right now, and they’re moving,” Gorman says, noting that tech firms in particular have been “very aggressive” at locking in long-term leases at favourable rates.

Alan Doak, a partner at Ottawa-based brokerage Proveras Commercial Realty, agrees.

Doak predicts more and more tenants in downtown properties will see “significant decreases in rental rates mixed with better and better incentive packages” as owners push to sign tenants to long-term deals, even if it is for less space than those companies occupied before.

“I think we’re just starting to see a real highly competitive environment evolve amongst multiple (office) towers,” Doak says.

Most vacant class-A office space in the core is now concentrated in a handful of properties, including Constitution Square, the Sun Life Financial Centre, the World Exchange Plaza and 55 Metcalfe St., notes longtime broker Shawn Hamilton, another partner at Proveras.

But incentives could spread to other properties in the core as short-term lease extensions signed during the pandemic start to expire and flood the market with even more vacant space, Doak adds.

“We don’t actually know how low people will go,” he says. “We haven’t seen the bottom yet.”

Determining exactly how much tenants are paying for space in the current market often requires a bit of digging.

Landlords typically like to publicize asking rents because rental rates help determine a building’s value.

Research shows those rates haven’t changed much over the past few years.

According to real estate firm Altus Group, the average asking net rent in a class-A building in downtown Ottawa right now is just over $21 per square foot. CBRE’s latest report pegged it slightly higher, at $22.90.

But most observers agree that the rate tenants pay after incentives have been deducted — known as net effective rent, or “NER” — has been declining throughout the pandemic.

Gorman estimates that average NERs in downtown properties have fallen about 20 per cent since 2019, with rates at “Triple-A” buildings dropping from between $23 to $25 per square foot before COVID, to closer to $18 now.

Doak agrees, saying some properties that fetched NERs in the range of $25 a square foot in the first quarter of 2020 are now bringing in closer to $15 a square foot.

Altus, meanwhile, says its data, derived from surveys of owners, brokers and landlords, hasn’t shown as much of a decline in NERs since 2019, when they ranged from $14 to $17 per square foot.

However, Raymond Wong, the firm’s vice-president of data operations, says recent anecdotal evidence suggests NERs are on a downward trajectory in the capital.

“It’s a very competitive landscape,” Wong says. “Net effective rates are coming down, but maybe not at the same rate as compared to Toronto or Vancouver.”

He says one explanation for Ottawa’s more gradual descent could be that its downtown office market hasn’t been hit with the same glut of sublet space as many other major Canadian markets.

According to CBRE, 11.3 per cent of all vacant office space in downtown Ottawa last quarter was on the sublet market, compared with nearly 29 per cent in Toronto.

“You’re not experiencing the same issues with your space competing with sublet (space),” Wong explains.

Veteran broker Lindsay Hockey of Colliers International also says that while headline asking rents are holding firm, “the incentive pool is a lot deeper.”

Still, he says the Ottawa landlords and property owners he deals with are “not going to the same extremes that we’re seeing in Toronto,” adding he’s “hesitant to say” inducements are “happening across the board in a big way.”

Building owners outside the core are also offering more incentives to tenants as vacancies continue to rise in those submarkets. Doak says landlords in Kanata are cutting rates and offering incentives that include up to a year’s free rent and help with fit-up expenses in “a race to provide the best value.”

Rents in class-A buildings in the west-end tech hub that were nearing $30 a square foot before COVID have fallen back to the mid-20s, he says.

KRP Properties president Martin Vandewouw, whose firm owns and manages more than three million square feet of commercial real estate in Kanata, wouldn’t reveal how much NERs in its portfolio have changed over the past four years. Vandewouw said the types of incentives landlords are willing to offer vary according to a tenant’s particular needs and the specifications of the building itself.

After a spate of short-term extensions early in the pandemic, landlords and brokers say they’re seeing a shift back to more five- and 10-year leases as companies finetune their back-to-work strategies and get a better sense of their overall real estate needs for the next few years.

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Oakview Capital founder Ryan Barresi’s leap of faith pays off

Graeme Webster joins Avison Young Avison Young has tapped the co-founder of one of Ottawa’s top boutique commercial real estate brokerages to lead its new capital markets team as the national firm looks to beef up its service offerings in the capital.

Graeme Webster, who launched Koble Commercial Real Estate with partner Marc Morin in 2014, has joined Avison Young’s Ottawa office as principal of its new capital markets group.

A veteran of nearly two decades in the local real estate industry, Webster specializes in brokering the sale of office, industrial and retail properties.

Two of Webster’s colleagues at Koble, senior associate Benjamin Burns and senior associate of brokerage services Jessica Thalen, will round out Avison Young’s new Ottawa-based capital markets team.

“To go to a group like Avison Young, where we have access to resources and reach that we didn’t as a local boutique, we can just deliver a better service offering to our client,” Webster explained. “At the end of the day, this is a firm that really matched up with what our clients, I think, expect from us.”

Michael Church, the managing director of Avison Young’s Ottawa office, said the addition gives the firm new expertise that will allow it to broaden its client base.

“It’s a platform that we really didn’t have,” said Church, who specializes in leasing. “It’s fabulous for us because there are so many opportunities.”

Groupe Mach’s Vincent Chiara bullish on Ottawa office market A Montreal firm that is now one of Ottawa’s biggest office landlords says it plans to demolish a former government building on O’Connor Street and replace it with a residential highrise containing up to 400 rental units.

Groupe Mach purchased the now-vacant 14-storey building at 110 O’Connor St. on the corner of Slater

Graeme Webster, new capital markets team lead at Avison Young. PHOTO SUPPLIED

Street from Cominar REIT for $40 million in 2021.

Groupe Mach president Vincent Chiara said the firm is likely going to tear down the existing structure that dates from the early 1970s and previously served as an office for the Department of National Defence.

The O’Connor Street deal is just one of a series of headline-grabbing recent transactions in Ottawa for Groupe Mach, which has acquired 16 properties in the National Capital Region over the past two and a half years.

“We like (the Ottawa) market,” Chiara explained. “We like the stability, we like the quality of the tenancy, we like the professionalism that’s there with our suppliers.

It’s a strong market that’s shown a lot of diversity.”

The biggest buy of them all came last spring, when the Montreal firm partnered with family office investor Sarees Investments to purchase One60 Elgin from Toronto-based H&R REIT for $277 million.

“A lot of the institutional owners are shying away from office in general,” Chiara said.

“They think this asset class has a bleak future, and therefore a lot of pressure is being put on them to dispose of these assets — whether it’s market pressure, whether it’s board pressure or long-term strategic pressures.”

But Chiara sees lots of life yet in the 52-year-old building, even if many experts believe the office sector faces an uncertain future.

“We’re starting to see signs of people coming back to the office,” he said. “I think some of the large employers are starting to put pressure on their employees to come back because they’re starting to lose some efficiency … by having their employees work at a distance.”

Ryan Barresi would be the first to admit his growing Ottawa real estate firm isn’t the kind of business that gets an investor’s heart racing. Oakview Capital, the company he started as a side hustle in 2010 and turned into a full-time gig three and half years ago, specializes in low-rise industrial flex space that caters to small enterprises like contractors and plumbers.

“It’s not a sector that’s very sexy,” the longtime broker says with a chuckle. That’s just fine with Barresi.

The former vice-president of commercial sales and leasing at Cushman and Wakefield Ottawa decided to leave his secure job with one of the world’s largest brokerage firms to focus on Oakview in the summer of 2020, just months after the pandemic began upending the real estate industry. It was a leap of faith that now looks like a stroke of genius.

Oakview recently completed its biggest deal yet, the $14.5-million purchase of a 95,000-square-foot property at 1140-1150 Morrison Dr. from Toronto-based Crown Realty Partners.

He remains unapologetically optimistic about the local industry, especially the suburban industrial submarket. Oakview’s portfolio currently includes no properties downtown, where commercial real estate prices are typically above the firm’s “weight class,” as Barresi puts it.

“You have to have money to invest there,” he says simply.

Plus, he prefers doing business outside the core, where most of the city’s industrial stock is located and unrelenting demand for limited inventory is pushing rents to record highs.

“More and more companies are leaving the downtown core, or they’re opening what they call satellite offices in the suburbs to get their employees back to the office,” he says.

Oakview’s backers include high-net-worth individuals and family offices.

But Barresi, whose five-person team also includes veteran broker Victoria Blackburn as chief operating officer and former C&W executive Ryan Murphy as vicepresident of asset management, points out that he also invests his own money in every deal.

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1

Total square footage in Ottawa/Gatineau

SERVICED OFFICE SPACES (RANKED BY TOTAL SQUARE FEET ACROSS LOCAL PORTFOLIO)

Year est. in Ottawa

International Workplace Group (SPACES, REGUS, HQ) 343 Preston St. 11th Floor, Ottawa, ON K1S 1N4 613-302-8198 regus.ca

2

TCC Canada

3

Collab Space

4

WorkAway Offices

5

Impact Hub Ottawa

6

Head Office Ottawa

7

iQ Offices

8

Coworkly

9

Sterling Spaces

10

MBO CoWorking

150 Elgin Street, 8th floor Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4 613-566-7000 tcccanada.com 70 Bongard Ave. Ottawa, ON K2E 7Z9 613-319-2025 collabspace.ca 1505 Laperriere Ave Ottawa, ON K1Z 7T1 613-319-3575 workawayoffices.com

123 Slater St., sixth floor Ottawa, ON K1P 5H2 613-680-3506 ottawa.impacthub.net 430-6 Hazeldean Rd. Kanata, ON K2L 1T9 613-963-1428 headofficeottawa.com 1000-222 Queen St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5V9 613-519-5567 iqoffices.com

261 Montreal Rd., third floor Ottawa, ON K1L 8C7 613-319-3141 coworkly.ca 2164 Montreal Rd. Unit 5, Ottawa, ON K1J 1G4 343-599-0105 sterlingspaces.ca

78 George St. Ottawa, ON K1N 5W1 613-680-6805 mbocoworking.com/

Key local executive

Notable clients

# of Ottawa offices/ national offices

Rates (day/week/month)

Services offered Full-time private & reserved coworking offices, virtual offices, memberships allowing access to our 3500 locations globally with 120 plus in Canada and growing, day offices, meeting rooms & video conferencing.

Hybrid workspace solutions for individual and enterprise. Hourly, daily, and monthly private office rentals. Meeting room and event space. Virtual office packages.

Coworking.

Premium workspaces, Collaborative spaces, meeting rooms, Event spaces, Outdoor spaces, Quality Restaurant, and multiple mini environments.

Beautifully furnished workspaces at felxible terms. With 24/7 access, private offices, managed suites, coworking, meeting rooms, virtual business, kitchens, coffee bars, copiers + free parking with easy access to the 417.

Member programming including coaching and consultation, workshops, networking events and opportunities. Member perks and discounts. Both on-site and virtual.

Meeting rooms, workshop rooms and event space rental.

2011

Geoffrey Dickens Mark Malone Mahavir Singh

WND

9 135

Serviced private offices starting at $222 per person, per month; virtual offices starting at $69/ month; meeting rooms starting at $49/ day; private day offices starting at $89/ day

122,500

1992

Sean Cochrane Romain Coquin Brittany Waitman

Ottawa Board of Trade, AWS, TripAdvisor, Dell, BDO, Windmill Developments, Fellow, Threekit, Converge

5 7

Starting at: Coworking: $30 per day Private Office: $30 per hour Meeting room: $50 per hour Virtual office: $50 per month

40,000

2015

Emile Salem Blair Kilrea

WND

47 WND

$25/day $199/month

Vince Valenti Stephanie Valenti

Starbucks, Canadian Opthamological Society, CyDef, Canadian National Appraisals, Badre Law, GAPC Entertainment, The Willow Group

2 WND

Dedicated desks $395/month, private offices starting at $645/ month, Coworking hotdesks at $275/month with day passes starting at $25/day 25$/month Connect membership (virtual) $120 to $240 per month for hot desk coworking $450 $500 for dedicated desks $1450 + for dedicated offices

Day pass: $25 Memberships: $199 - $299

150,000

30,000

2017

16,000

2012

Elizabeth Cleland

WND

WND WND

15,000

2018

Peter Bastedo Trevor Clark

WND

WND WND

13,000

2012

Carly Bedini, VP of Operations

Google Canada Wheels Databricks

9,000

2018

Maher Arar

WND

4,693

2020

Kevin Sterling

2,400

2015

Eric McRae, Founder

Collaborative workspace, private offices, business events, corporate events: presentations and seminars, private upscale events.

1 7

Starting at $299 per month

1 WND

$30 a day $150-$375 Memberships Monthly $850 $1600 Offices Monthly

Centrosome Inc, Gaming Corner, BBCR Cafe

1 1

$30/day $99 for 5 day passes $149 for 10 day passes $249 for 24/7 Access

WND

1 1

Day Pass $20-$32/day Hotdesk starts: $100/month Dedicated desk: $475/month Timeshare office: $300/month

Experience premium workspace solutions including private offices, hybrid desks, day passes, virtual offices, and event venues, all complemented by boutique-level services designed to cater to both teams and individuals.

Venue/meetup space, audio and video recording/livestreaming and production, coworking space, quiet zone, phone booths, nap/ meditation room, office wing, phone booths.

Premium flexible workspace, private offices, team spaces, virtual offices & virtual mail, tech-enabled meeting rooms, event space, coaching & mentoring, networking events, free parking.

MBO Coworking provides stunning high-quality spaces that are guaranteed to spark your creativity and impress your clients. Good for individuals and remote employees.

Everything is included, meeting room, business address and receive mail.

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211-2141 Thurston Dr. Ottawa, ON K1G 6C9 613-739-3699 / 613-739-3965 lwg-ai.com

2 2

Mascioli Design Inc.

4

4te inc.

5

West of Main Inc.

6

Parallel 45 Design Group Ltd.

7 9 10

1000-150 Isabella St. Ottawa, ON K1S 1V7 613-238-0440 architecture49.com 62 Glencairn Ave. Ottawa, ON K1S 1M6 613-233-2212 / 613 2354621 masciolidesign.ca 73 Breezehill Ave. N. Ottawa, ON K1Y 2H6 613-232-4499 / 613-232-4187 4te.ca 2437A Kaladar Ave. Ottawa, ON K1V 8B9 613-762-8073 westofmaindesign.com 240-700 Industrial Ave. Ottawa, ON K1G 0Y9 613-738-7600 parallel45.ca

No. of local ARIDO designated employees

No. of local support staff

19

Key local executive(s)

Major clients and projects

Products and services

5

Marc Letellier Bryan Wiens David Gibbons

WND

Specializes in commercial interiors with a focus on workplace design/sustainability. Project visioning, space planning, concept design, furniture design/specifications, design development, construction drawings and specifications, construction administration.

12

79

Justin Chubaty Glen Klym

uOttawa Faculty of Health Sciences; Centre Block Rehabilitation; First Nations Technical Institute; US Embassy, Canadian Embassy; PSPC; St. Paul's University; Sobeys.

Commercial interior design services, including functional programming, concept planning and renderings through to creating tender ready construction packages. Building sustainable, WELL and LEED certified projects.

12

WND

Paula Mascioli

Sheraton Hotel Alta Vista Animal Hospital Beechwood Cemetary Miami official Residence for Canadian Consular General

Full interior design services and project management for interiors and exteriors.

10

1

Chantal Boyer-Casey Emily Chamberlain Tzoofit Hammer

Bell, BGIS, Brigil, Brookfield, CLV, Colonnade Bridgeport, Ellis Don, Hobin Architecture, knak, Lundy, Minto, ManuLife, Morguard, NAVCanada, SmartCentre Revera, Smart & Biggar, Taggart, Welch

Full commercial interior fitup including programming and planning. Specialties include change management Prosci, furniture strategies, GoC Workplace, REVIT, BCIN, WELL, LEED Professionals.

9

WND

Sascha LaFleur Justin Thomason

WND

Full-service design for large-scale residential & commercial projects that include complete furnishing. All construction & contractor facilitation is included in our process. Restaurants & boutique commercial spaces.

7

2

Liz Miller Sarah Oakley Robin Peixoto

WND

Full corporate and commercial functional programming and facility space planning; permit and construction documentation; BCIN; specialty, medical, dental and optometry planning and design; LEED ID+C and WELL Building accredited professionals.

6

1

Sonja Schroeter, Principal

CREA, PSAC, BGIS, PSPC, DFO, CNSC, DND, CSC, PS, VAC, CAS, Australian High Commission, Red Cross, City of Ottawa, BGO, Merkburn, CBRE, Colonnade BridgePort, GWLRA

Functional programming, space planning, design concept, renderings, construction documents, furniture procurement, project and move management.

6

7

Denis Seguin Kristi Castilloux

PSPC, Centre Block, House of Commons, Canada Blood Services, Bank of Canada, TD Bank, Ciena, Dell, Delta Hotel, uOttawa, Algonquin College

Interior design, feasibility studies, programming, space planning, schematic design, concept design, contract documents, contract administration, consulting.

4

WND

Anna Westlund, Partner

WND

Functional programming/strategy, planning, budgeting, project management, conceptual design, furniture procurement, execution/permit drawings, construction site supervision, LEED/WELL

3

2

Catherine Rachel Hay, President

WND

Interior Design In-Home Design Services In Store Design Services Furniture Services Decor Services Staging Services

2

1

Marianne Dupont, Partner

WND

Strategic space planning, real estate development, creative integrated furnishings, AV, IT, acoustic solutions, sustainable architectural interiors.

2

1

Courtney Turk, CEO

WND

Residential & Commercial Interior Decorating & Design Services

2

10

Andrew Reeves Joseé Anne Pronovost

360 Laurier, 473 Albert, All Saint Church, Saint Charles Market

Architectural; interior design; LEED and sustainability.

2

WND

James Salem Tony Fuso Jill Trower Ian Willson

WND

Programming and Planning, Design to GCworkplace, Furniture Services, Part 3 & 9 Code review, Construction Documentation and Administration, Sustainability Design, Feasibility Studies, Residential Interior Design

1

WND

Anne Carlyle, Principal

Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, One Kids Place, North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit, the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa, CHEO, Roger Neilson House, the Bank of Canada, The Salvation Army

Planning; interior design; art program development for health care, education and other public-sector organizations.

1

3

Serina Fraser, Principal

WND

Full interior design services.

1

WND

Anthony Leaning Darryl Hood Jessica Macartney

Shepherds of Good Hope, John Howard Society of Ottawa, Andrew Fleck Childcare Services, Carleton University, uOttawa, City of Ottawa, Cornerstone Housing for Women

Sustainable design; Passive House design; LEED consulting; institutional, commercial, educational, multi-unit residential; child care design; office fitup; new construction; adaptive reuse; heritage conservation.

1

0

Barbara Steele

JLL, Ottawa Memory Clinic, PSPC PDP III(subcontracted through Perkins & Will), Royal Lepage Performance Realty

Investigation, design concept, construction documents, building permit applications, project management.

1

WND

Penny Southam, Principal

WND

Retirement homes, dental and vet clinics.

Atkinson Schroeter Design Group 110-410 Laurier Ave. W. Ottawa, ON K1R 1B7 613-563-3797 asdginteriors.com

HOK Inc.

101-205 Catherine St. Ottawa, ON K2P 1C3 613-683-1807 hok.com

Provencher_Roy Design Interieur Inc. 440-47 Clarence St. Ottawa, ON K1N 9K1 provencherroy.ca

Hay Design Inc.

63 Gore Street E Perth, ON K7H1H8 613-201-9119 haydesign.ca

11

[in]tempo design studio

11

Courtney Turk Interiors

11

Linebox Studio inc

11

(RANKED BY NUMBER OF ARIDO REGISTERED DESIGNERS)

LWG Architectural Interiors Inc.

Architecture49

7

COMMERCIAL INTERIOR DESIGN FIRMS

100-357 Waverley St. W. Ottawa, ON K2P 0W4 613-565-5500 intempo.ca 101-65 Denzil Doyle Ct Ottawa, ON K2M 2G8 613-859-6074 courtneyturk.com/

116 Lisgar St, Ottawa, ON Ottawa, ON K2P 2L7 613-216-2609 linebox.ca

MCROBIE Architects + Interior Designers 100-66 Queen St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5C6 613-238-2072 mcrobie.com

15

Carlyle Design Associates LTD

15

Clear Interior Design

15

CSV Architects

15

Place ID

15

Southam Design Inc.

205 Island Park Dr. Ottawa, ON K1Y 0A3 613-728-7880 carlyledesign.ca

76 Chamberlain Ave. Ottawa, ON K1S 1V9 613-237-4696 cleardesigns.ca

190 O'Connor St. Ottawa, ON K2P 2R3 613-564-8118 csv.ca 115 Holmwood Ave. Ottawa, ON K1S 2P1 613-295-0914 place-id.com 121 Parkdale Ave Ottawa, ON K1Y 2J4 613-866-7369 southamdesign.com

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165 Pretoria Ave. Ottawa, ON K1S 1X1 613-238-2801 / 613-238-4583 performancecommercial.ca

1090 Ambleside Dr. Ottawa, ON K2B 8G7 613-596-4133 / 613-596-5905 coldwellbankersarazen.com

4

Solid Rock Realty

5

Colliers

1723 Carling Ave. Ottawa, ON K2A 1C8 613-725-1171 / 613-725-3323 ottawacommercialrealestate.com 5 Corvus Crt. Ottawa, ON K2E 7Z4 613-733-3434 srrealty.ca 1005-99 Bank St. Ottawa, ON K1P 6B9 613-567-8050 / 613-567-8035 collierscanada.com 400-55 Metcalfe Street Ottawa, ON K1P 6L5 613-236-7777 cwottawa.com

800-45 O'Connor St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4 613-567-2680 / 613-567-2671 avisonyoung.ca

7

Marcus & Millichap

1900-340 Albert St. Ottawa, ON K1R 7Y6 613-782-2266 / 613-782-2296 cbre.ca 301-275 Bank St. Ottawa, ON K2P 2L6 613-364-2300 / 613-364-2310 marcusmillichap.ca

Local support staff

Year est. in Ottawa

39

230

12 600

4

23

WND

WND WND

21

639

16

Top local executive

Services offered

2002

Russell Perkins, Broker/Manager John Rogan, Broker of record

Office leasing, industrial, land and retail sales and leasing, tenant representation, investment sales, multi-residential.

WND

1977

Leah Sarazen, Broker of record

Real estate sales and leasing, multi-residential, retail, industrial, office, institutional, land, market research and consulting services.

WND WND

WND

2002

Rick Eisert, Broker and Manager

Full range of services including sales and acquisition, leasing, tenant representation, land assembly and development and consulting for all commercial and institutional asset types.

18

1 6

5

2004

Gina Cristello, Broker of record

Commercial leasing, industrial, institutional, appraisals, property management, consulting, retail, multi-family, residential, apartments, market research.

14

422

3 15

5

1992

Warren Wilkinson, Managing Director

Leasing (landlord and tenant representation), investment sales, real estate management services, valuation and advisory services, project management, consulting, research.

14

545

1 22

6

2009

Nathan Smith, Executive Vice President and Managing Director

Full service: office, industrial and retail leasing; land, multifamily and investment sales; appraisal; project management; lease administration; market research; advisory and consulting services.

10

325

1 15

4

2007

Michael Church, Managing Director and Principal

Full-service commercial: leasing, office/industrial/retail, multiresidential and apartments, asset management, property management, mortgage brokerage, investment sales, appraisal, project management, valuations.

10

408

1 22

12

1999

Louis Karam, Senior Vice President & Managing Director

Tenant representation, office, industrial and retail leasing and sales, investment and multi-residential sales, consulting/client advisory services, project management, appraisal, capital markets, workplace strate

10

WND

WND WND

WND

2018

Mark Paterson, FVP, Broker of record

Brokerage and advisory firm serving institutional, public and multinational corporate investors, private owners, major space users, developers and lenders.

7

WND

2 WND

2

2016

Denis Shank, President, Broker of Record

Full Service Commercial Real Estate Services. Advisory Services to purchase property, lease, build-to-suit.

7

WND

3 WND

WND

1994

Ross Webley, President and Broker of record

Tenant representation; office, industrial, commercial, land and retail leasing; investment sales; advisory and consulting services; business sales.

6

WND

1 WND

5

2017

Darren Fleming, Broker of record

Management consulting, workplace strategy, brokerage services, tenant representation, commercial property manangement.

5

12000

1 380

4000

2009

Zach Coakeley Dan Marques Martin Aass

Tenant representation; project management; lease administration; national brokerage solutions; office/industrial sales and leasing, lease auditing, market research, office, industrial and retail sales and leasing; workplace solutions

5

WND

WND WND

WND

2010

Ransome DrCar, Vice President and Practice lead

Tenant representation, project and facility management, lease administration, national brokerage solutions, office/industrial leasing, investment sales and management, retail sales, leasing and investments, land sales, multi-residential investment.

4

43

1 9

1

2008

Philip Zunder, President and Broker of record

Commercial real estate sales and leasing including office, retail, industrial, hotels, apartment buildings, cannabis, retirement homes, land and syndication.

3

WND

WND WND

WND

1940

Jim McKeown, Broker

Commercial sales, investment properties.

2

WND

WND WND

WND

1978

Kelvin Wong, President

Full-service real estate brokerage; listing and selling of commercial property; commercial leasing; property management; appraisal; consulting

1

WND

WND WND

WND

2004

Randall Stevenson, President and Broker of record

Investment sales for Seniors' Housing, Long-Term Care, retail, apartment. Seniors' Housing consulting

1

WND

WND WND

WND

2000

Brent Taylor, President

Commercial sales and leasing; consulting, owner user and investment sales, multi-residential and apartment sales

1

1

1 WND

1

2013

James McNeil, Managing Principal and Broker of record

Commercial real estate advisory services, including acquisitions and dispositions. Specializes in green buildings and low-carbon workplaces as well as accommodation strategies for tenants.

Capworth Commercial Realty Brokerage 106-1390 Prince of Wales Drive Ottawa, ON K2C 3N6 613-601-1353 capworthrealty.com

Coldwell Banker First Ottawa Realty, Brokerage 1749 Woodward Drive Ottawa, ON K2C 0P9 613-831-9628 / 613-831-9626 firstottawarealty.com

12

Real Strategy Advisors Ltd.

13

Cresa Ottawa

13

JLL

200-1280 Baseline Rd. Ottawa, ON K2C 0A9 613-216-0130 realstrategy.com

204-1750 Courtwood Crescent Ottawa, ON K2C 2B5 613-688-7200 / 613-688-7201 cresa.com/ottawa 800-275 Slater St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5H9 613-656-0145 / 613-288-0109 jll.ca

15

CDN GLOBAL (OTTAWA) LTD.

16

Coldwell Banker Rhodes & Co.

17

First Estate Realty Ltd

18

Barclay Commercial Corporation

18 18

Local offices / National offices

Avison Young Commercial Real Estate Services, LP, Brokerage

7

10

National commercial agents

Cushman & Wakefield Ottawa

CBRE

10

No. of brokers 1

Coldwell Banker Sarazen Realty Brokerage

3

7

(RANKED BY NUMBER OF LOCAL COMMERCIAL BROKERS. NOTE, FIRMS MUST OFFER TENANT REPRESNTATION TO QUALIFY.))

Royal LePage Performance Realty

Royal LePage Team Realty

5

COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BROKERS

1419 Carling Ave., Suite 203 Ottawa, ON K1Z 7L6 613-695-0440 cdnglobal.com

201-200 Catherine Street Ottawa, ON K2P 2K9 613-236-9551 / 613-236-2692 cbrhodes.com

17 Arlington Ave. Ottawa, ON K2P 1C1 613-238-4448 / 613-238-4451 firstestaterealty.ca 163 Balmoral Place Ottawa, ON K1H 1B2 613-739-3989 / 613-704-4756 barclaycommercial.com

Brentcom Realty Corporation, Brokerage Ottawa, ON 613-726-7323 brentcomrealty.com

JJMcNeil Commercial Ottawa, ON K0G 1J0 613-668-7738 jjmcneil.ca

WND = Would not disclose

1

doing more than 50% (in dollar value) of their work in commercial real estate)

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THE LIST Company/Address Phone/Fax/Web

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Total leasable square feet

Storeys

Built

Last renovated

1,200,000 1

4 22 22 29

WND

2017

1,064,445

18 21 19

1,030,213 1

14

1,000,000 1

26

981,227 1

22

977,000 1

17

965,091 1

5

946,000

18 14 19 2

907,971 1

WND

688,000

585,000

Place de Ville - Podium & Towers A, B & C

300 Sparks St./320 Queen St./ 112 Kent St./330 Sparks St. Ottawa, ON

Constitution Square I, II & III

340, 350 & 360 Albert St. Ottawa, ON K1R1A4 613-594-0238 www.constitutionsquare.com

PRIVATELY-OWNED OFFICE BUILDINGS AND COMPLEXES (RANKED BY TOTAL LEASABLE SQUARE FEET) Management company

Owner

Major tenants

Crown Realty

Crestpoint Real Estate Investments and Crown Realty Partners

Transport Canada, Canada Revenue Agency

2007

2022

Canderel Management Inc.

TD Greystone and Canderel

Public Service and Procurement Canada, TD Bank, Fullscript, Payments Canada, Scotia Capital, Defence Construction Canada, Canadian Commercial Corporation, Canadian Association of Professional Employees, PerleyRobertson, Hill & McDougall LLP, BMO, National Dental Examining Board

1977

WND

SNC-Lavalin ProFac

Federal government

WND

1971

2018

H&R REIT

H&R REIT, Toronto

Bell Canada, federal government, Gowlings, Telesat

1975

WND

Rosdev Group

Federal government

WND

WND

2018

BentallGreenOak

Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada and BK Prime Ontario 1 Inc.

Canada Deposit Insurance Corp., Nelligan Law, E&Y, PwC, Dentons, BDC, National Bank, Hill+Knowlton, RBC, House of Commons, Library of Parliament

1999

2010

Minto Properties

WND

RCMP

1988

2009

Colliers Macaulay Nicolls Inc

LCPF Realty Inc., I.G. Investment Management, Ltd, Minto Properties Inc.

CRA, Infrastructure Canada, Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, BDO, Marks & Clerk, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

1998

WND

Minto Properties

Minto Properties Inc., Ottawa

PWGSC; RCMP

20 16 3

1991

2001

QuadReal Property Group

World Exchange Plaza Holdings Inc.

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, IDRC, Deloitte, TD Bank, RBC Dominion Securities, CTV, McMillan LLP

17 0 0

2014

0

GWL Realty Advisors

The Canada Life Assurance Company

Department of Finance, Treasury Board

C.D. Howe Building

240 Sparks Street & 235 Queen Street Ottawa

Place Bell Canada 160 Elgin St. Ottawa, ON

L'Esplanade Laurier

140 O'Connor Street, 171 Bank Street and 300 Laurier Avenue.

Sun Life Financial Centre

50 O'Connor St. & 99 Bank St. Ottawa, ON

MJ Nadon Complex (M1 to M10) 73 Leikin Dr. Ottawa, ON

Minto Place Complex

344 Slater St./427 Laurier Ave./180 Kent St./407 Laurier Ave. Ottawa, ON

Mercury Centre M1-M8 3000 Merivale Rd. Ottawa

World Exchange Plaza I & II

45 O'Connor St./100 Queen St. Ottawa, ON

James M. Flaherty Building 90 Elgin St. Ottawa, ON

Jean Edmonds Tower North

300 Slater St./365 Laurier Ave. W. Ottawa, ON

552,000 1

21

1971

2016

Morguard

WND

WND

498,000 1

17 19

WND

2006

Bona Building and Management Co.

WND

CBSA

491,931 1

14

1970

1999

Cominar

The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company

WND

488,000 1

12

1954

2010

Cushman & Wakefield Asset Services ULC

WND

PWGSC

482,062 1

18

2011

WND

Manulife Investment Management

The Manufacturers Life Insurance Co.

Export Development Canada

11 11 4

2006

WND

Waterford Property Group

WND

Province of Ontario, Adobe, JL Richards, Regus, IBI Group, Rewind, Titus, RBC Dominion Securities, SunLife Financial, Economical Insurance, Pomerleau

Place Vanier Towers A & B

333 North River Rd. / 355 North River Rd. Ottawa, ON

Place Export Canada

151 O'Connor St./150 Slater St Ottawa

Billings Bridge Shopping Centre 2277 Riverside Dr. Ottawa

The EDC Building* 150 Slater St. Ottawa, ON

Preston Square I, II & III 333, 343 & 347 Preston St. Ottawa, ON 613-230-7572

470,275

Plaza 234

234 Laurier Ave. W. Ottawa, ON

461,000 1

26

1983

2013

Gillin Engineering & Construction

Crestpoint and Gillin Engineering & Construction

FINTRAC, Shopify

449,291 1

10

WND

1987

SNC-Lavalin ProFac

Federal government

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Canadian Food Inspection Agency

14 0 0

2013

2013

Multivesco

3340848 Canada Inc

Office of the Information Commissioner, Elections Canada, Canadian Space Agency, Privacy Commissioner of Canada

412,214 1

13

WND

1979

Maple Leaf Property Management

Canadian Leaseback (GP) Inc., Vancouver

Public Works and Government Services Canada; Royal Bank; Treats; Federal Court

398,000 1

15

1966

1982

GWL Realty Advisors

The Canada Life Assurance Company

Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Tax Court of Canada

388,500 1

12

1978

WND

Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions

Grand Rive

Transportation Safety Board of Canada, Passport Canada

Skyline Campus I-VII 1400 Merivale Rd. Ottawa

30 Victoria Street 30 Victoria St. Gatineau, QC

434,576

Thomas D'Arcy McGee Building 90 Sparks St. Ottawa

Centennial Towers 200 Kent St. Ottawa, ON

Place du Centre (Federal Tower)* 200 Promenade du Portage Gatineau, QC

WND = Would not disclose

1

Did not respond to this year's survey in time for publication. This information is from previous years.

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SERVING THE OTTAWA-GATINEAU REGION FOR OVER 10 YEARS

A growing team of 24 staff

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THE LIST Company/Address Phone/Fax/Web

1

1000-150 Isabella St. Ottawa, ON K1S 1V7 613-238-0440 architecture49.com

2 3

NEUF architect(e)s

4

KWC Architects

5

CSV Architects

5

Hobin Architecture

7

GRC Architects

7

IDEA Inc.

7

Perkins+Will

11

101-205 Catherine St. Ottawa, ON K2P 1C3 613-683-1807 hok.com 400-10 Rideau St. Ottawa, ON K1N 5W8 613-234-2274 NEUF.ca

201-383 Parkdale Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Y 4R4 613-238-2117 kwc-arch.com 190 O'Connor St. Ottawa, ON K2P 2R3 613-564-8118 csv.ca 63 Pamilla St. Ottawa, ON K1S 3K7 613-238-7200 hobinarc.com 401-47 Clarence St. Ottawa, ON K1N 9K1 613-241-8203 grcarchitects.com 595 Byron Ave. Ottawa, ON K2A 4C4 613-728-0008 integrateddesign.ca 1810-275 Slater St. Ottawa, ON K1T 5H9 613-563-2500 perkinswill.com 100-171 Slater St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5H7 613-236-7135 cuhaci.com

1000-343 Preston St. Ottawa, ON K1S 1N4 613-728-3571 jlrichards.ca

11

Moriyama Teshima Architects

11

Parkin Architects

116 Lisgar St, Ottawa, ON Ottawa, ON K2P 2L7 613-216-2609 linebox.ca 3-109 Murray St. Ottawa, ON K1N 5M5 613-562-2908 mtarch.com

200-20 James St. Ottawa, ON K2P 0T6 613-739-7700 parkin.ca

Notable clients or projects in 2022-2023

Specialties

91

2014

Justin Chubaty Glen Klym

uOttawa Faculty of Health Sciences; Centre Block Rehabilitation; First Nations Technical Institute; US Embassy, Canadian Embassy; PSPC; St. Paul's University; Sobeys.

Security/defence, sports/entertainment, education, healthcare, hospitality, commercial, heritage, industrial, retail, landscape architecture.

15

40

1996

Denis Seguin Kristi Castilloux

PSPC, Centre Block, House of Commons, Canada Blood Services, Bank of Canada, TD Bank, Ciena, Dell, Delta Hotel, uOttawa, Algonquin College

Strategic facility planning, architecture and interior design, feasibility studies, programming, consolidation planning, sustainable design, heritage restoration.

11

18

1971

Frank Puentes Evelyne Cardinal

WND

Industrial, offices, institutional, residential, commercial, urban design, hotels, resorts, interior design.

10

22

1975

Kelly Koroluk Ran Zaig Janis Hamacher Laszlo Mohacsi

WND

Institutional, commercial, residential, heritage, adaptive use, sustainable design, labs and scientific facilities, multi-unit residential, functional programming, financial institutions.

Shepherds of Good Hope, John Howard Society of Ottawa, Andrew Fleck Childcare Services, Carleton University, uOttawa, City of Ottawa, Cornerstone Housing for Women

Sustainable design, Net Zero design, LEED consulting, institutional, commercial, educational, multi-unit residential, child care design, office fitup, new construction, adaptive reuse, heritage.

20

9

28

1998

Anthony Leaning Darryl Hood Jessica Macartney

9

45

1979

BarryJ Hobin Wendy Brawley Doug Brooks

The City of Ottawa, Ottawa Fire Services, OCH, The Salvation Army, Le Groupe Maurice, Trinity Developments, Taggart Group, RioCan, Regional Group

Master planning, seniors' housing, non-profit housing, educational, condos, custom homes, churches, retail, recreational, civic, entertainment, LEED design.

8

WND

1985

John Cook Martin Tite Alex Leung Carolyn Jones

WND

Sustainable design, heritage conservation, universities, master planning, military, community centres, recreational facilities, office buildings, museums.

8

40

1986

Ryan Crowle Dino Di Sano Chris Warner-Smith

WND

Government/institutional, universities, municipal, recreational, laboratories, corporate/commercial, interior design, sustainable design/LEED accredited, residential, heritage.

Government, civic buildings, interiors, corporate workplace strategy, education, sports/recreation, urban design, transit, sustainable design, tech, and residential.

8

18

2008

Matt Johnston

PSPC, BGIS, Bank of Canada, Dream Unlimited, Brigil, CMHC, Kiewit Eurovia Vinci (Confederation Line Extension), Queen's University, The University of Ottawa.

7

18

1963

Zofia Jurewicz Jerzy Jurewicz David Bull

L’école secondaire publique Mille-Îles, L'école secondaire catholique MarieRivier, French Arts Centre, Le Centre Culturel Frontenac.

Educational, institutional, labs, health care, seniors' housing, mixed use, heritage restoration, interior design, master planning, space planning, fit-ups.

6

WND

1955

Saverio Parrotta René Lambert

WND

Sustainable/net zero design, educational, office buildings, lab and industrial, government and military, health care, social housing, transportation, integrated design process, design-build.

6

16

2007

Andrew Reeves JoseéAnne Pronovost

360 Laurier, 473 Albert, All Saint Church, Saint Charles Market

Residential and commercial architectural; interior design; LEED and sustainability.

6

9

2006

Simon Eltayar Emmanuelle van Rutten

West Memorial Building Rehabilitation, Federal Heritage Building Ottawa Ottawa Police Services South Facility

Institutional buildings including government, educational, civic, museums. New constructions, renovations, sustainable design, master plan, concept design.

6

30

2000

Richard Huot

WND

Government, health care, justice, corrections, recreation, education, research, laboratory, LEED, EDAC, interior design.

Federal government, schools, universities, tech, commercial, industrial, restaurants, residential, heritage restoration, programming and feasibility studies.

Pye & Richards - Temprano & Young Architects Inc. 824 Meath St. Ottawa, ON K1Z 6E8 613-724-7700 prty.ca

6

21

1901

Eliseo Temprano

St. Joseph Coptic Church, École élémentaire catholique des DeuxRivières, St. Juan Diego Elementary School, St. Bernadette Catholic Elementary School

6

33

1996

Roderick Lahey

RioCan, Trinity, Homestead, Richcraft

Urban planning, urban design, multi-unit and mixed-use residential/commercial, and zoning amendments.

5

105

2002

Heather Semple

WND

Education, health care, institutional, commercial, multi unit residential; sustainability, including passive house, and accessibility, fit-ups, building information modeling.

Institutional, corporate, industrial, recreational, education, affordable housing, municipal, first nation's, residential, sustainable design, adaptive reuse, sacred spaces, health care.

Office Buildings, Office Interiors, Logistics/ Distribution Facilities, Retail Development, Schools/Colleges, Rehabilitation/Renovation, Urban Design, Site Planning, Multi-unit Residential, Cottages and Single Family Homes

RLA Architecture 56 Beech St. Ottawa, ON K1S 3J6 613-724-9932 rlaarchitects.com

17

Arcadis Architects (Canada) Inc.

17

Figurr Architects Collective

17

Key Ottawa executive

Total staff

1

J.L. Richards & Associates Limited

11

11

Year est. in Ottawa

No. of registered architects

Edward J. Cuhaci and Associates Architects Inc.

Linebox Studio inc

11

(RANKED BY NUMBER OF REGISTERED ARCHITECTS)

Architecture49

HOK Inc.

10

ARCHITECTURE FIRMS

500-333 Preston St. Ottawa, ON K1S 5N4 613-241-3300 www.arcadis.com

206-190 Somerset St. W. Ottawa, ON K2P 0J4 613-695-6122 figurr.ca

5

WND

1989

Roberto Campos

Caivan, Zibi, Gemstone Corporation, Dream, Sobeys, CAE Inc., Theia Partners, Katasa Group, Kanata Research Park, Serco, Carleton University, Multifaith Housing Initiative (MHI).

5

18

1989

James Salem Tony Fuso Jill Trower Ian Willson

WND

MCROBIE Architects + Interior Designers 100-66 Queen St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5C6 613-238-2072 mcrobie.com

WND = Would not disclose

1

Including reg. architects

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wsp.com Earth & Environment / Energy, Resources & Industry / Property & Buildings / Transportation & Infrastructure

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THE LIST Company/Address Phone/Fax/Web

1 2 3 4 4

2611 Queensview Dr. Ottawa, ON K2B 8K2 613-829-2800 / 613-829-8299 wsp.com 300-1331 Clyde Ave. Ottawa, ON K2C 3G4 613-722-4420 stantec.com

1000-343 Preston St. Ottawa, ON K1S 1N4 613-728-3571 jlrichards.ca

200-2932 Baseline Rd. Ottawa, ON K2H 1B1 613-739-2910 / 613-739-4926 morrisonhershfield.com

7

115 Walgreen Rd. Carp, ON K0A 1L0 613-836-2184 egis-group.com 100-1223 Michael St. N. Ottawa, ON K1J 7T2 613-738-4160 / 613-739-7105 parsons.com 100-2650 Queensview Dr. Ottawa, ON K2B 8H6 613-688-1899 / 613-225-7337 exp.com 580 Terry Fox Drive Kanata, ON K2L 4B9 613-591-1533 clelandjardine.com

550

Key local executive(s)

1959

Guy Somers Ammar Salameh

200-240 Michael Cowpland Dr. Kanata, ON K2M 1P6 613-254-9643 / 613-254-5867 novatech-eng.com

13

GHD Ltd.

14

Adjeleian Allen Rubeli

9 Auriga Drive Ottawa, ON K2E 9T7 613-226-7381 patersongroup.ca

400-179 Colonnade Rd. Ottawa, ON K2E 7J4 613-727-0510 / 613-727-0704 ghd.com 1005-75 Albert St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5E7 613-232-5786 / 613-230-8916 aar.ca

Ferenaz Raheem Dylan Hemmings

80

100

WND

WND WND

1955

Saverio Parrotta René Lambert

Civil, electrical, mechanical, environmental, energy systems, and structural engineering; architecture; and planning

Employee owned, multidisciplinary firm offering services in engineering, architecture, and planning with a reach extending across North America and the world.

60

172

WND

1 24

1985

KevinL. Chouinard

Buildings, energy and industrial, environment, land development, technology and telecom, transportation, transit, structures, water and wastewater.

Planning, design, construction administration, construction management, investigation, assessment, field testing, research, commissioning.

60

20

4

WND WND

1990

Andre Chaumont

44

51

WND

WND WND

1990

Mark Ward, COO Chris McShane, EVP

1956

Sylvain Montminy Ron Clarke

1984

Reece Bailey Alam Ansari Ismail Taki

Building engineering; environmental; geotechnical; infrastructure

Engineering and consulting services to the world's built and natural environments.

1993

Patrick St. Onge Michael Cleland Robert Jardine Brian Johnson

Cleland Jardine - Structural engineering BPA - All specialties related to building engineering.

Structural consulting engineering firm specializing in the structural investigation, design, rehabilitation, and construction review of both new and existing buildings.

Civil, water resources & transportation engineering; land use planning; urban design; feasibility studies, site plan and subdivision development, municipal preliminary and detail design projects.

1

53

45

1 14

36

49

13

2 103

5

3 12

36

35

25

WND = Would not disclose

1

Engineering, project management, urban planning, environmental/ sustainable services Provides a full range of consulting engineering and technical solutions that encompasses every stage of a project.

Transportation planning/studies; planning and design of roads, transit, bridges and municipal infrastructure; CA/CI services for roads and structures

34

78

47

1 WND

1982

John Riddell

30

30

7

1 2

1977

Derek Potvin Kelly Lalonde

Municipal infrastructure, land development, environmental engineering, stormwater management, transportation, water resources

Land development, municipal infrastructure, transportation engineering, trenchless technologies, water resources, municipal drains, construction inspection

28

143

38

2 3

1956

David Gilbert Joe Forsyth

Geotechnical, environmental, hydrogeological, materials testing, building envelope, structural, vibration monitoring and noise studies.

Geotechnical and environmental engineering, materials testing, hydrogeology, vibration monitoring, and building sciences.

22 1

45

10

1 14

1974

Kevin Emenau Etienne Bordeleau

Water, environment, buildings, geotechnical, transportation, sustainability studies, engineering design, construction inspection, ecological assessment

Advisory, buildings, digital, database design, environmental emergency, response energy and resources, environmental, geosciences, transportation, water

15

28

2

1 1

1955

Garry Vopni Jean-Michel Carrière

Structural building engineering consultant providing services in all areas of structural and envelope planning and design.

Structural analysis and design; seismic evaluation and retrofit; feasibility studies; building envelope; heritage conservation.

2000

Neil Caldwell David Nguyen

Mechanical, electrical, structural, civil, municipal, water resources; environmental services; hydrogeology; GIS; land use planning

Providing comprehensive, personalized service to municipalities, private developers, school boards, First Nations, post-secondary institutions, government organizations.

Community infrastructure/strategies, contaminated sites management, energy transition, environmental management, facilities, land development, transportation

14

32

5

2 1

13

14

4

1 25

1961

Brent Loney Rory Baksh Shawn Doyle

Planning; management; engineering; environmental science

13

42

7

2 13

1975

Patrick St. Onge Georges Maamari

Mechanical, electrical, building automation, commissioning, IT, food services, acoustical, structural

Consulting engineering services for buildings, from new constructions to renovations, fit-ups or equipment replacement.

WND

WND WND

Justin Tudor, President

Building science; building envelopes; structural; electrical and mechanical (HVAC) engineering; alternate energies; project management.

Building condition assessment; design; contract administration; energy studies; asset management studies; reserve fund studies; technical audits.

8

15

Did not respond to this year's survey in time for publication. This information is from previous years.

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Mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, transportation engineering; project management; urban planning; environmental sciences; sustainability; energy Multidisciplinary engineering firm that specializes in civil, contract administration, structural, environmental, geotechnical, planning, surveying and building science.

Engineering, planning, project management and tech firm providing a broad range of solutions within the rail, transit, roads and highways, bridges, tunnels, water and ITS sectors

Municipal, land/site development; transportation, water resources engineering; planning and project management; landscape architecture.

Keller Engineering

500-885 Meadowlands Dr Ottawa, ON K2C 3N2 613-224-1594 / 613-224-1642 kellerengineering.com

Initial conceptual development, project planning and community engagement through to design, construction, commissioning, maintenance, decommissioning and remediation.

1975

BPA 2

100-1960 Robertson Rd. Ottawa, ON K2H 5B9 613 596-6454 bpa.ca

Professional services firm working with government, businesses, developers, architects and planners to transform the built environment and restore the natural environment.

1 400

Dillon Consulting

101-177 Colonnade Rd. Ottawa, ON K2E 7J4 613-745-2213 / 613-745-3491 dillon.ca

Buildings; municipal infrastructure; urban planning; landscape architecture; water resources; roads; land development; highways; bridges; sustainable development Water/wastewater; transportation; mechanical/electrical/structural/ civil; building engineering; surveying; land development; urban planning, landscape architecture

78

Jp2g Consultants Inc.

410-1150 Morrison Dr. Ottawa, ON K2H 8S9 613-828-7800 / 613-828-2600 jp2g.com

Description of activities

130

Robinson Consultants Inc.

210-350 Palladium Dr. Ottawa, ON K2V 1A8 613-592-6060 / 613-592-5995 rcii.com

Areas of practice

124

Novatech Engineering Consultants

12

18

400

Cleland Jardine Engineering Ltd., A Member of BPA

Paterson Group Inc

16

50

4 100

Year est. in Ottawa

CIMA+

600-1400 Blair Towers Road Ottawa, ON K1J 9B8 613-860-2462 / 613-860-1870 cima.ca

EXP

16

No. of local offices/ national offices

Morrison Hershfield Limited

7

15

No. of Ottawa support staff

J.L. Richards & Associates Limited

Parsons

11

Total No. of engineering staff

Stantec Consulting

6

10

(RANKED BY NUMBER OF LICENSED ENGINEERS IN OTTAWA)

WSP Canada

Egis

9

No. of licensed (P. Eng) engineers in local offices

ENGINEERING FIRMS

1982

2

Excludes recently acquired Cleland Jardine Engineering Ltd.

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REAL ESTATE

Community builder: CEO of the Year Mike McGahan

H

e might prefer to keep a low profile, but make no mistake — Mike McGahan is a towering figure in Canadian real estate.

After cutting his teeth in the business under the tutelage of mentors such as the legendary Jacie Levinson, the 60-year-old Ottawa entrepreneur became an industry giant in his own right. He helped form the CLV Group, which eventually became the property development and management arm of another Ottawa-based real estate firm, InterRent Real Estate Investment Trust.

In more than a dozen years as InterRent’s chief executive, McGahan oversaw the company’s ascent to the upper echelons of the Canadian real estate industry before stepping aside last year and assuming the role of executive chairman. Today, the REIT controls more than $2 billion worth of assets from Quebec to British Columbia, representing nearly 13,000 rental suites, and employs close to 600 people.

Meanwhile, McGahan continues to lead the CLV Group, which has become an industry trailblazer in office-toresidential conversions thanks to projects such as the Slayte at 473 Albert St., a former federal government building that is now home to 158 rental apartments.

A father of four grown children, three of whom now work alongside him at CLV Group, McGahan is also renowned for his tireless philanthropic efforts.

For two decades, he was a key organizer of the CLV Group’s Ron Kolbus Memorial Charity Golf Tournament, which raised more than $3 million over two decades before wrapping up in 2017.

Today, McGahan is a driving force behind another major fundraiser, the Mike McCann Charity Golf Tournament, an event named in honour of the former Ottawa advertising executive and philanthropist who was one of McGahan’s closest friends and passed away from cancer in 2019.

For all those accomplishments and many more, McGahan is the 2023 recipient of the CEO of the Year Award from OBJ and the Ottawa Board of Trade. OBJ’s David Sali sat down with McGahan to discuss his career.

Here is an edited transcript of their conversation.

was lucky enough to have a really good local banker when I started out. He helped me out a lot with financing. As you go through life, you always have mentors, and I want to do the same thing for others.

How did you eventually form the CLV Group?

After graduating from university, I got my realtor’s licence and then I got my mortgage broker’s licence. I ended up working at a large (property management) company called Levinson-Viner for a few years and then left to start my own real estate company called Commvesco. I had a really good relationship with (Levinson-Viner founder) Jacie Levinson, who was another great mentor. I bought Jacie’s company in 1998 and Jacie continued to be involved in the business due to his passion in real estate. We kept on investing together and he ended up being the chair of the REIT. He was an amazing gentleman. He had great business sense and was a great person. I count myself as being very lucky. That’s how CLV came to be — Commvesco Levinson-Viner. We thought it sounded like a law firm, so we just shortened it to CLV. (Laughs.)

And how did InterRent come into the picture?

We went through the early ’90s and we saw a lot of pain in the real estate side. We ended up selling off some of our properties to this REIT (InterRent, which was established in 2006). We didn’t know anything about it. They asked me to take back some shares and asked us to stay on as their Ottawa managers. They got into a hostile takeover situation, and then they approached us about doing a friendly takeover. We ended up bringing in a group of pension funds and long-term investors. A lot of them are still in the REIT. In 2008-09, everybody was really nervous (during the financial crisis), as you can imagine.

It was a big step, but we all did it together. We ended up doing a private placement. I had made a deal with the old CEO that, over a span of three to six months, we were going to find a new CEO. After we did our deal, he gave me his resignation. I was the temporary CEO for 12 years.

(Laughs.) I had no idea about anything to do with public markets. We learned so much as a group. It was fantastic.

How did you get your start in the real estate industry?

InterRent is known for its strategy of acquiring older properties and modernizing them. Why did you take that approach?

I started buying properties while at Ottawa U. I was playing hockey and one of my buddies on the hockey team, his father was doing very well buying real estate.

He gave me some part-time jobs when I was in university and I learned by watching and helping him. His name was Phil Drouillard. He had his own real estate company.

He mentored me and taught me a lot of different things — buying and financing and just what kind of properties to look for. He spent a lot of time with me, which I appreciated. I was running five city park rinks when I was in high school, continued while in university, and that’s how I saved up to make my first down payment (on a property). I ended up buying about two or three properties when I was in university. I bought them, renovated them, refinanced them and reinvested. My buddies would come with me and do painting and all sorts of odd jobs and I’d give them a case of beer. (Laughs.) I

Essentially, I was doing that from the first property I bought in university. It was the exact same formula that we’d done all the way through. We always wanted to deliver the best experience for our residents. A lot of these buildings were at the end of their life cycle. It was an opportunity to keep them going. We figured out which locations we wanted to grow in, and we sold the other properties that we didn’t think were good opportunities for growth. We just recycled the capital back into areas that we thought had good long-term growth prospects.

We had such an amazing team and group of people. Dave Nevins and Ray Lachance were driving with me all over Ontario watching the operations. They even moved to London for I think a couple of years. It was a busy time.

At the beginning, we only had two analysts following us, and they rated us a strong sell because they thought the whole REIT model was broken. We just basically went

about our business, did what we thought was the right thing to do, and then everything started proving itself in the results. It was kind of funny — one of the analysts who had us as a strong sell was Brad Cutsey, our current CEO. That’s how we became friends. I said, ‘Wait. We’ll prove you wrong.’ (Laughs). I guess he believed in us after all.

By the way, Brad shall end up being a better CEO than me going forward. He is doing a fantastic job. You shall see it prove out in the results in the future.

How did you get into the office-to-residential conversion business?

We love to innovate. If you look at LIV (a major apartment complex on Bell Street that CLV renovated), we took those apartments on and just totally redid them. We thought it was a good move and saw the same thing with 473 Albert St. We had a lot of challenges with (Albert St.) — the time it took to get (applications) processed, supply chain issues, all sorts of things. The timing of converting that building probably couldn’t have been worse. But saying that, it ended up being terrific for us. We’ve done really well (on rentals) and learned a ton. We think we’re really good at doing office conversions, and you can’t do that with many buildings — maybe only about 20 per cent of buildings make sense for conversions. But we understand how it works. We’re excited about doing it, and we’re not only going to do it in Ottawa, we’re going to do it in other cities.

We’d like to do more in Ottawa, but we’re going to have to see how things go from here. We really need the city to become proactive like other cities across North America.

This is a pivotal time where we can add housing and do it in a very sustainable way.

What were the biggest lessons you learned when converting 473 Albert St.?

You really don’t know everything about a building until you peel (all the layers) back. Due to supply chain issues, we should have ordered things a bit more in advance. Even dealing with the city was a big issue. They hadn’t seen many of these office conversions, so I think they were challenged too, especially during COVID. I think we’re better for it now. I feel a lot more optimistic as we go forward.

What’s your take on the potential for more conversions in Ottawa?

I think about 20 per cent of buildings could be conversion candidates, but you have to make sure the buildings are vacant. If you look at what’s going on with the federal government (looking to sell off surplus properties in Ottawa) and what’s going on with class-C buildings, I think about 31 per cent of them are vacant now, which is terrible. We need a housing solution, but everybody’s got to get on board. We’re really happy with the feds (agreeing to waive the GST on new rental construction), but it’s not a silver bullet. That’s one item. To get the housing that we need, we need to look at (lowering) development charges, property taxes and parkland fees and creating a concierge service for office conversions at the city so that your application doesn’t sit for a long time. Speed is a big thing.

We’ve got a problem here and across the country (with rising office vacancies in downtown cores), and it’s not going away. We need to deal with it. It’s not like we can just flip a switch and it’s going to change. You need all levels of government and everybody to co-operate to get to where we need to go.

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TECHNOLOGY

SECTOR INSIGHTS

Serial entrepreneur Mike Kelland makes a splash with Planetary Technologies

BY SUZANNE GRANT

I

deas for great companies that last and make a mark are often preceded by a plethora of other concepts that, for one reason or another, didn’t work out or ended up successful and gave the founder leverage to start something new and do it all over again.

That’s been Mike Kelland’s experience.

He’s an Ottawa-based serial entrepreneur who’s now the co-founder and CEO of Planetary Technologies, a cleantech startup poised to make a literal splash in saving our oceans and fighting climate change. But he’s spent years launching and fostering businesses.

“I had a lawn care company with my brother Richard and my friend Adam. We called ourselves ‘ARM,’ an acronym for our names.

I was 12,” he says. “But I started what I’d call my first real business when I was in my last year of high school with my friend Jason. I was building and designing websites and put myself through university doing that.”

Perhaps one of his most interesting companies — it almost made the big leagues — was one that checked CDs, DVDs and game discs for issues.

“You’d put in a disc, close the drawer and within 15 seconds it would tell you whether a disc was too scratched to play on a typical player,” he explains. (If you were around in the 1990s and early 2000s, you’re acutely aware of the genius behind this product.) “We were the industry leader in a very small space and we were on the verge of selling.

“Then Blockbuster went bankrupt and that was the end of that. It was a two-year run, really fun, really interesting.

We made zero dollars, but we learned a lot.”

You can chalk those businesses up to learning

experiences that made Kelland the entrepreneur he is today. With a degree in electrical engineering and a background in software, his last company prior to Planetary Technologies was a hit. BoldRadius, a superniche software consultancy, was acquired by Lightbend, a Silicon Valley startup, after five years in business.

After that success, he started searching for his next venture. Kelland knew he wanted to develop a company that would make an impact protecting the planet from climate change. He was initially inspired by a longtime mentee at his alma mater, Carleton University.

“I was working with Brock Battochio, who was a climate change engineer and passionate about sustainable and renewable energy. I was in a space where I knew I could do a lot of good and do something I cared about,” he says.

For Kelland, an environmentalist, pairing his love of nature with his interest in innovation and technology was a no-brainer. “So, we spent a year talking to scientists and looking for technologies that had potential.”

One of the scientists they spoke with was Greg Rau, who had spent decades researching the global carbon cycle and started studying ocean alkalinity enhancement in the early 2000s. Kelland was inspired by and interested in Rau’s work and the three ended up launching Planetary Technologies in 2019.

In Planetary, Kelland and his partners hit the criteria they were looking for: the ability to develop a technology that has a direct link to climate change that can work now (it’s not decades away from being viable); address large markets; and serve an area that has previously been underinvested. The company focuses on removing carbon dioxide, which is an acid, through ocean alkalinity.

“Excess emissions of carbon dioxide from burning

fossil fuels dissolve into the ocean and end up making it more acidic. Every time someone drives a car or runs a BBQ, they’re essentially adding acid to the ocean. When you have too much acid, you need to add an antacid to clean it up. That’s what we do, we basically put Rolaids into the ocean to neutralize it,” Kelland explains.

The Planetary team also knows that the atmosphere and oceans mirror each other when it comes to CO2, so when you neutralize carbon dioxide, roughly the same amount will be pulled from the atmosphere to keep balance.

“When we get rid of carbon in the ocean, it’s replaced by carbon in the atmosphere. And when carbon dioxide is neutralized in the ocean, it’s transformed and stored as bicarbonate, which is just like baking soda.”

That’s another piece of the puzzle. “Not many people realize carbon is stored in the chemistry of the ocean as part of the saltiness of the ocean. This bicarbonate is vital for marine life; shellfish and microscopic plankton need it for their shells and fish use it to form their bones,” he says.

“Oceans make up two-thirds of the Earth’s surface. Most of us don’t understand just how vast they are. They’re also our biggest buffer against climate change,” he explains.

“They not only suck up a quarter of our carbon dioxide emissions, but they also absorb most of the extra heat caused by greenhouse gases. That’s a lot of extra acid.

Areas of the Pacific Ocean in North and South America are reaching crisis levels; the government of British Columbia has declared this issue one of the top five threats to the province. The oceans are 30 per cent more acidic now than they were before the Industrial Revolution.”

Kelland and the team’s commitment to making a difference hasn’t gone unnoticed. Last year, Planetary Technologies won the $1-million CDR XPRIZE milestone award, a competition Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation funded that called for innovative ways to capture and remove CO2 from the air.

They’re also benefiting from $152 million from the federal government that supports research and tech developments in the field, currently being conducted with partners at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

Support from the angel investing community has also been robust. “It’s awesome. When we started, a lot of people thought we were crazy, but the bet is paying off with all the attention that the field is getting these days.

So many angels have put their faith in me and us as a company. The fact that they’re willing to take risks based on how much we believe we need to try this means a lot to me,” Kelland says.

Suzanne Grant is an entrepreneur who has built bootstrapped and equity-financed businesses in Canada, Australia and Qatar. Today, she supports business growth and positioning while sharing insights to demystify earlystage fundraising. Grant leads the Capital Angel Network as part-time executive director.

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TECHNOLOGY

IN THE NEWS

Michael Tremblay makes the leap from Invest Ottawa to Calian

Noibu places 12th on Deloitte’s fastest-growing list Seven years after Noibu’s launch, co-founder Kailin Noivo says the company that detects bugs in e-commerce sites hasn’t quite hit full stride – but it’s getting there.

Noivo, who hatched the Ottawa-based software firm with business partners Robert Boukine and Filip Slatinac, says the reality that online stores don’t always work properly remains one of the industry’s “dirty secrets.”

“I don’t think anyone correlates revenue loss to quality issues,” he said. “I think a lot of people want to pretend they’re not there. It’s still something where we’re having to go out and educate our buyers on that.”

But retailers are starting to come around, Noivo added.

“The tides are now turning, where people are coming to us.”

The more e-commerce retailers turn to Noibu, the more the Ottawa company gains recognition for its rapid ascent.

Noibu ranked 12th on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 list of North America’s top-growing companies, recording three-year revenue growth of 12,865 per cent.

That follows the firm’s eighth-place finish in the Globe and Mail’s annual list of Canada’s top-performing companies last month. Earlier this year, it placed second on OBJ’s list of top-growing Ottawa-based companies, its second consecutive appearance in the No. 2 slot.

The startup has come a long way from its origin in 2017 as a platform that offered 3D virtual tours of retailers’ brick-and-mortar stores. Two years later, the founders changed tack, shifting Noibu’s focus to software that detects and helps resolve glitches in online stores.

“We started with a solution and we were kind of looking for a problem after, whereas this time we started with a problem and then tried to effectively build a solution from there,” explains Noivo, who earned a commerce degree from the University of Ottawa and worked at the Bank of Montreal before starting his own business.

Noibu’s software now helps more than 1,000 e-commerce websites run more efficiently. Its customers include Champion, Guess, Levi Strauss and Co. and Swarovski. While some experts are predicting a slowdown in retail, Noivo said demand for his company’s solution is growing as online retailers seek ways to make the buying experience more seamless for consumers.

Calian acquires Decisive Group in $74.7M deal Calian Group announced in November it has agreed to purchase Decisive Group in a deal that could be worth up to $74.7 million.

The transaction includes a $50-million cash payment upon closing. Calian expects the deal to be finalized by the end of December pending regulatory approvals.

Founded in 2001, Decisive Technologies was launched as a professional services company and began offering data centre solutions in 2010. It expanded its offerings in 2013 with the creation of a new company, BriteSky Technologies, which originally focused on cloud storage.

Two years ago, the firms amalgamated under the Decisive Group banner.

Along the way, Decisive has racked up a series of accolades. It was twice named to OBJ’s list of fastestgrowing companies and has made three consecutive appearances on Ottawa’s Best Places to Work list since 2021.

“The Decisive team is excited to join Calian,” Decisive Group CEO Mitchell Carkner said in a statement. “Voted one of Ottawa’s Best Places to Work, we – like Calian – hold many of the same values. We are hyper-focused on modernizing and protecting our customers’ infrastructure and can’t wait to do that as part of the Calian team.”

Decisive Group now employs more than 60 people.

Its customers include numerous federal government departments and agencies as well as privately owned companies across Canada.

Just a couple of months ago, Michael Tremblay was happily ensconced in his role as president and CEO of Invest Ottawa. Then, a conversation with one of the city’s most prominent business leaders dramatically altered his career plans.

Kevin Ford, the chief executive of Calian Group, reached out to Tremblay with a question: would he be interested in filling the vacant office in Calian’s C-suite?

As it turned out, it was also an offer he couldn’t refuse.

“When I looked at it and when I considered different potential paths forward for me as a leader, I couldn’t resist,” he said.

Tremblay, 62, brings an impressive CV to his new job. Over the past four decades, he’s held senior sales, marketing and operations positions at a who’s-who of tech giants, from Digital Equipment Corp. to Microsoft.

His 2017 move into the leadership seat at Invest Ottawa – an organization with a budget of less than $10 million and dozens, rather than thousands, of employees – marked a significant change of pace for Tremblay.

But he jumped in with both feet, taking charge just as the government-funded economic development agency was settling into its new home at Bayview Yards.

Tremblay wasted no time putting his stamp on IO, spearheading the launch of projects such as Area X.O, a massive training ground for driverless vehicles on Woodroffe Avenue, and programs aimed at turning startups into global businesses like the federally funded Scale-Up Platform.

“The world of economic development has been a very new journey for me as a leader,” Tremblay admitted.

“We’ve done a lot of work in developing the new leaders of tomorrow. I feel very good about it, and I can’t wait to see the next phase of Invest Ottawa.”

Ford said IO’s evolution under Tremblay’s watch is a testament to his skills as a leader.

“He never took it as a not-for-profit,” explained Ford.

“He treated it as a business and really excelled at creating an exciting platform for the world. He really has that unique balance of larger corporation experience with almost a startup mentality that he brought to Invest Ottawa. That’s what really attracted me.”

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1 2 3

ADGA Group

4

Calian Group

5

Thales Canada

6

Lockheed Martin Canada

7

110 Argyle Ave. Ottawa, ON K2P 1B4 613-237-3022 adga.ca 770 Palladium Dr. Ottawa, ON K1V 1C8 613-599-8600 calian.com 1 Chrysalis Way Ottawa, ON K2G 6P9 613-723-7000 thalesgroup.com/canada 870-45 O'Connor St. Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4 613-688-0698 lockheedmartin.ca 333 Palladium Dr. Kanata, ON K2V 1A6 613-599-9199 curtisswrightds.com

8 9

Gastops

11 11

201-390 March Rd. Kanata, ON K2K 0G7 1-844-635-7305 solink.com 1011 Polytek St. Ottawa, ON K1J 9J3 613-744-3530 gastops.com 303 Terry Fox Dr. Ottawa, ON K2K 3J1 613-591-8181 marchnetworks.com 3429 Hawthorne Rd. Ottawa, ON K1G 4G2 613-736-5100 dewengineering.com

France Hebert 1947

Federal government, defence and security, critical infrastructure, public safety, OEMs

DND, Defence Research and Development Canada, Canadian Coast Guard, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, L3Harris MAS, Airbus, Boeing, General Atomics

Modelling/simulation and training, system and software engineering, human factors, capability engineering, life-cycle support.

750

Joel Houde 1948

Global defence and security, critical infrastructure, public safety

Department of National Defence, U.K. Ministry of Defence, U.S. Department of Defense, more than 20 allied militaries around the world

C4ISR and defence electronics company producing technology-based integrated solutions for land, airborne, maritime, and cyber applications.

475

Shaun McEwan 1967

Defence & Security, Public Safety, Critical Infrastructure

Canadian Armed Forces/DND, Shared Services Canada, Correctional Services Canada, as well as multiple government departments focused on safety and security

Solutions architecture, development and systems integration, in-service support solutions, integrated cyber/ physical security solutions, and training and simulation solutions

460

Robin Richardson Kevin Ford, CEO 1982

Defence manufacturing, space defence systems, satellite communications, autonomous systems, simulation-based training, VR.

Government of Canada, DND, Canadian Armed Forces, NATO, global defence/space manufacturers, telecom providers.

Simulation-based training, defence manufacturing, aerospace systems, ground vehicle systems, ship-borne systems, carbon fiber antennas, defence engineering.

400

Chris Pogue, CEO 1984

Defence & Security, Aerospace & Space, Digital Identity and Security

Canada, government, DND, Canadian Coast Guard, Public Services and Procurement Canada, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Canadian Air Force

Systems engineering/project management, computer engineering, software development, computer simulation, weapon/sensor systems control and integration, logistics.

350

Lorraine Ben 1995

Global defence and security, aerospace

Department of National Defence, defence and commercial industries

Research, design, development, manufacturing, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.

305

Charles Falardeau 1981

Aerospace and defence

Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, BAE Systems, General Dynamics

Engineering embedded computing modules that are ruggedized to endure environments faced by commercial airplanes, helicopters, fighter jets, UAVs, ground vehicles and naval platforms.

240

Mike Matta, CEO 2009

Retail, restaurant, financial, warehousing, C-store, automotive, property management and more.

Tim Hortons, Moxie's Classic Grill, Five Guys, JYSK, Canadian Tire, Domino's Pizza

Connects and synchronizes brick-and-mortar business systems including video and POS data, providing insight into loss prevention, security, and operations issues.

210

Shaun Horning, CEO 1979

Defence, aviation, energy, marine

Pratt & Whitney, Collins Aerospace, IMP Aerospace & Defence, Bell Helicopter, Airbus Helicopters, RCAF, RCN, USAF

Leading provider of intelligent condition monitoring solutions used in Aerospace, Defence, Energy, and Industrial applications to optimize the availability, performance, and safety of critical assets.

153

Peter Strom, CEO 2000

Banking, retail, cannabis, transit, commercial, industrial, education and government enterprises

Ottawa Transit, banks, Tommy Bahama, Yesway Convenience Stores, Toronto Transit Commission, Toronto Community Housing, Canadian Tire Centre

Video surveillance and video-based business intelligence solutions that improve security and business performance objectives including loss/fraud prevention, corporate compliance and workforce optimization.

150

Ian Marsh, President 1978

Defence, police services and aerospace in North America, Europe and the Middle East

Department of National Defence, General Dynamics Land Systems Canada, Ford Motor Co.

Ceramic composite armour protection systems for military and police vehicles, military fleet life extension and repurpose, design and manufacture, tracked and wheeled military vehicles.

150

John Fisher 1969

Global

Canadian Space Agency, DND, Lockheed Martin, Airbus, Boeing, European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), Sierra Nevada Corp., OneWeb, Northrop Grumman, MELCO

Geointelligence, robotics and space operations, satellite systems.

135

Tom Davis 1975

Aerospace and defence

U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, BAE Systems, Boeing, Leonardo Helicopters, Airbus Helicopters, Chevron, ExxonMobil

Aerospace and defense, IR signature management, IR signature suppressors for aircraft and ships, specialized exhaust systems for offshore energy platforms.

88

Rob Reynolds Jennifer Murch 1984

Military, Law enforcement, Corrections institutions, Security

DND, RCMP, Ontario Provincial Police, Federal Law Enforcement Services, Provincial Law Enforcement Services

Soft body armour solutions protecting against ballistic, stab/ slash and fragmentation threats. Ballistic blankets, unloading stations, ancillary accessories for carriers.

85

Rob Reynolds 1981

Military forces, public safety agencies, border security

Military and public safety agencies worldwide, including Department of National Defence, US DoD, NATO Member Nations

Bomb suits, protective equipment and sensors against explosive threats, bomb disposal and EOD robots, blast sensors, specialized tools and search equipment, and blast attenuation seats.

70

Steve Mills Louis Brunet 2006

Government, aerospace, defence

Department of National Defence, GDMS, Bombardier, IMP/Cascade, CAE, Longview Aviation/Viking Air

Communications, navigation, simulation and training systems, avionic systems, flight management systems, data fusion and networking

70

Ryan Daye 1960

Defence electronics, systems integration

DND, U.S. Navy, international military forces

Development and design of naval communications and deployable flight data recorders. A certified manufacturer of cockpit voice recorders, flight data recorders, and emergency locator beacons.

55

Adam Caithness 2006

Global Defence and commercial

Canada DND: Canadian Army, RCN UK MoD: British Army Australian Defence Force: Australian Army

Land Forces Simulation Systems including CAST support and AAR support. MST systems based on VR and AR, including voice-procedure based speech recognition, telemetry, biometrics support.

50

Mike Dithurbide 2003

Military, public safety & security agencies

First responders

Develops and delivers equipment, customized training and integrated solutions for defeating terrorist and extremist threats.

MDA

302 Legget Dr. Kanata, ON K2K 1Y5 613-599-7602 mda.space

14

Pacific Safety Products

15

Med-Eng

16

Collins Aerospace

19

Description of specialty areas

DEW Engineering and Development ULC

13

18

Major clients

March Networks

W.R. Davis Engineering Ltd.

16

755

Major markets

Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions

Solink

10

Key local executive Year est. in Ottawa

General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada 1941 Robertson Rd. Ottawa, ON K2H 5B7 613-596-7000 gdmissionsystems.ca

(RANKED BY NUMBER OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES)

No. of local employees

CAE Defense & Security, Canada 200-350 Legget Dr. Ottawa, ON K2K 2W7 613-223-6797 cae.com

DEFENCE AND SECURITY COMPANIES

1260 Old Innes Rd. Ottawa, ON K1B 3V3 613-748-5500 wrdavis.com

124 Fourth Ave. Arnprior, ON K1S 0A9 613-623-6001 pacsafety.com

2400 St. Laurent Blvd.

Ottawa, ON K1G 6C4 613-482-8835 med-eng.com 104-30 Edgewater St Kanata, ON K2L 1V8 613-595-2200 collinsaerospace.com

Leonardo DRS

1100-500 Palladium Dr. Kanata, ON K2V 1C2 613-591-5800 leonardodrs.com

SimFront Simulation Systems

770 Palladium Drive, 4th Floor Ottawa, ON K2V1C8 613-216-2300 simfront.com

Allen-Vanguard Corporation 2405 St. Laurent Blvd.

Ottawa, ON K2G 5B4 613-739-9646 allenvanguard.com

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THE LIST Company/Address Phone/Fax/Web

1 2

(RANKED BY NUMBER OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES)

No. of local employees

Year est. in Ottawa

100

2012

Ranovus

101-11 Hines Rd. Ottawa, ON K2K 2X1 613-912-8007 ranovus.com

Key local executive(s)

Major clients

Proprietary technology

Services offered

US Hyperscale Data Center and US Hamid Arabzadeh providers Semiconductor companies in AI/ML industry

Multiwavelength Quantum Dot Laser, Silicon Photonics transmitter and receiver, high-speed driver and TIA, wafer scale packaging and testing

Providing optical interconnect technologies for AI/ML workloads inside Data Centers A full service environmental consulting and tech solution for water and wastewater treatment; specializes in designing, building and operating plants and equipment.

BluMetric Environmental

1682 Woodward Dr. Ottawa, ON K2C 3R8 1-877-487-8436 blumetric.ca

3

Armstrong Monitoring

4

Novozymes Canada Limited

5

CLEAN-TECH COMPANIES

215 Colonnade Rd. S. Ottawa, ON K2E 7K3 613-225-9531 armstrongmonitoring.com 300 Hunt Club Rd. E. Ottawa, ON K1V 1C1 613-241-9889 novozymes.com

96

1985

Scott MacFabe

Governments, military, mining, commercial, industrial

Water treatment technology for DND, shipboard and land-based systems to produce potable water. Mobile water treatment systems for emergency response.

60

1981

Joanne Johnson

Military, commercial, industrial, municipal

Gas detection transmitters, monitors and accessories, and related firmware and software.

Gas detection systems, callibration and repair services.

45

2013

Chris Judge

North American ethanol producers

Yeast used in ethanol production.

Large scale microbial fermentation

Smart meter systems for tenant metering, LEED reporting and tracking energy consumption

Develops and sells revenue-grade, smart submetering products that inventory, benchmark, verify, bill for and reduce energy use.

Triacta Power Solutions (Metergy Solutions Inc.) 130 Industrial Ave. Carleton Place, ON K7C 3T2 613-256-2868 triacta.com

6

GBatteries Energy Canada Inc.

6

Iogen

8

Ensyn Technologies Inc.

9

VCI Controls

102-1431 Merivale Rd. Ottawa, ON K2E 0B9 gbatteries.com

101-310 Hunt Club Rd. E. Ottawa, ON K1V 1C1 613-733-9830 iogen.com 610-2 Gurdwara Rd. Ottawa, ON K2E 1A2 613-248-2257 ensyn.com

100-9 Camelot Dr. Ottawa, ON K2G 5W6 613-226-6712 vcicontrols.ca

10

Clearford Water Systems Inc.

10

Thermal Energy International

12

5G Energy Ltd.

13

MAXUN Solar Inc.

13

Quadra Solar Corpopration

15

CH Four Biogas

16

Rimikon

17

Aeroserve Technologies

300-1545 Carling Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Z 8P9 613-599-6474 clearford.com

850-36 Bentley Ave. Ottawa, ON K2E 7W5 613-723-6776 thermalenergy.com

202-203 Colonnade Rd. Ottawa, ON K2E 7K3 613-368-4809 fifthgentech.com 800-1730 St. Laurent Blvd.

Ottawa, ON K1G5L3 613-518-5040 MAXUN.Solar 800-1730 St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa, ON K1G 5L3 613-454-8020 QuadraSolar.com 26 Elgin St Smihts Falls, ON K7A3C4 613-224-8308 chfour.ca 1027 Notre Dame Street Embrun, ON K0A 1w0 613-746-9961 rimikon.com 1120 Huntmar Dr. Carp, ON K0A 1L0 613-839-4679 airtab.com

35

2003

Curtis Parks

Commercial and residential property management companies, enterprises focusing on energy and greenhouse gases

30

2014

Kostya Khomutov

Automotive manufacturers, consumer electronic manufacturers

ChargeSense is a fully adaptive, self-learning algorithm that generates complex charging pulse profiles based on real-time monitoring and analysis of a battery's internal state.

Ultra-fast charge of off-the-shelf lithium-ion batteries without compromising cycle life.

Patented technology for making renewable hydrogen RH, cellulosic and advanced biofuels for end-use as clean transportation fuel and CCS.

Bespoke solutions to advanced biofuel cleantech adoption, integration and distribution issues, with or without CCS.

30

1982

Brian Foody Patrick Foody

North American oil producers, integrated energy & waste companies, biomass, dairy farms, landfills and environmentally progressive equity funds.

20

1982

Robert Graham Barry Freel

Kerry Group (Wisconsin), Memorial Hospital (New Hampshire), Bates College (Maine)

Patented Rapid Thermal Processing technology to convert woody biomass to renewable liquid fuels, feedstokcs and chemicals

Ensyn’s RTP® fast pyrolysis technology converts biomass to sustainable fuels, refinery feedstocks and renewable chemicals.

19 1

1981

Pierre Craig

Federal government, tech companies

Building automation system

Systems integrator, supply and install building automation systems.

1999

John Levie Andrew Vitaterna Les Szpunar Wilf Stefan

Parkbridge, Communities, Capreit, Sun Communities, ClubLink, Husky, JW Marriott, Developers, and Municipalities.

Clearford One wastewater system, SBS small bore sewer, Pay for Performance (P4P) delivery model, Crossfire Technology by UV Pure for water disinfection

Concept planning, guidance through regulatory approval process, engineering, manufacturing, construction supervision, long term operations/ management of water infrastructure.

GEM Steam Traps, FLU-ACE Direct contact condensing heat recovery, Heat-Sponge SIDEKICK and RAINMAKER indirect contact condensing heat recovery systems

Energy efficiency and emissions reduction solutions to the industrial and institutional sectors.

BorgConnect Smart Manufacturing Edge Platform for small, medium, & large enterprises.

Makes smart manufacturing an affordable reality for SMEs, and energy/maintenance/quality/ production optimization for large enterprises.

MAXUN maximizes solar energy capture through dual-axis tracking technology for buildings with photovoltaic, thermal or combined generation.

15

15

10

1991

Robert Triebe Julia Zhang

Pulp and paper, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, healthcare, other industrial, institutional and commercial markets Government, automotive OEMs & suppliers, personal care, oil/gas, utilities, food/ beverage, mining, IT, construction, telecom, aerospace - in 16 countries.

2014

Ananth Seshan

8

2018

Ra’ed Arab Bruno Rocha

ECCC

Low Profile Dual-Axis Tracking, iPyramid-1 - Flat Rooftop Solar Cogeneration Solution

8

2007

Ra’ed Arab Abdullah Arab

Various

Horizontal low-profile dual-axis sun tracking system for flat rooftops.

A leading solar EPC company in Eastern Ontario, servicing the residential, commercial, and industrial markets.

7

2006

Benjamin Strehler

Farmers, municipalities, industrial, institutional clients across North and South America

Computer simulation program capable of modelling the effects of different feedstocks on the anaerobic digestion process.

Full suite engineering for renewable energy, RNG and electricity production using organic materials as feedstock.

4

WND

Mike St-Jacques

Tamarak Homes,Minto, Richcraft, Nordik

Low voltage lighting

Eco-friendly and extra low voltage lighting

Trucking automotive industry

Fuel saving and stability and drag reduction on land vehicles.

Manufactures vortex generators that are applied in an array at the back of vehicles with more than a 30-degree trailing slope for fuel savings and safety.

2

1997

Ron Davidson

WND = Would not disclose 1 Did not respond to this year's survey in time for publication. This information is from previous years.

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Company/Address Phone/Fax/Web

No. of local employees

Year est. in Ottawa

39

2006

François de Bellefeuille, General Manager

25local No. of No. of local employees employees

2010 Year est.

Year est. in Ottawa in Ottawa

Steph Barlow, Chief People Officer Vicki Iverson, Chief Technology Officer Matt Strentse, Chief Relationship Officer Graeme Barlow, Chief Executive Officer Key local executive Laura Townson, Chief Operating Officer Key local executive

25 39 39

2000 2006 2006

Richard Isaac, CEO François de Bellefeuille, General Manager Geoff Waddington, President François de Bellefeuille, General Manager

DND, Global Affairs, Fictionary.co, Caterpillar, Autodesk, Nortac Defence, Harvard Business Publishing, Samsung, Caterpillar,Greetings.

Autodesk, Nortac Defence, Shutterstock American Shutterstock

20 25 25

2010 2010 2010

Steph Barlow, Chief People Officer StephIverson, Barlow,Chief ChiefTechnology People Officer Vicki Officer Dave Strentse, Hale, Founder &Relationship CEO Vicki Iverson, Chief Officer Matt ChiefTechnology Officer Matt Strentse, Officer Graeme Barlow,Chief ChiefRelationship Executive Officer Graeme Barlow, Chief Chief Operating Executive Officer Laura Townson, Officer Laura Townson, Chief Operating Officer

Booster Juice, Google Canada, Manitoba Audi, Harlequin, Farm Boy, Health Hydro,Bell, National Arts Centre, Audi, Bell, Harlequin, Farm CAMH Boy,Canada Health Canada, SimWin, OttawaU, REALTOR.ca, Xplore, YouTube Canada, SimWin, OttawaU, CAMH

19 25 25

2010 2000 2000

Richard Isaac, CEO Joshua Garellek Richard Isaac, CEO President Geoff Waddington, Geoff Waddington, President

DND, Global Affairs, Fictionary.co, WND DND, Global Affairs, Fictionary.co, Harvard Business Publishing, Samsung, Harvard Publishing, Samsung, AmericanBusiness Greetings.

American Greetings.

Website design, app graphic design, Plans, develops, and development, manages digital solutions for branding.

Plans, develops, manages digital solutions for government andand SaaS businesses. government and SaaS businesses.

15 20 20

1999 2010 2010

Dan DaveCummins Hale, Founder & CEO Dave Hale, Founder & CEO

Media planning, and campaign management, Design and Web buying, development, UX and UI specialists, Media planning, and campaign management, website strategy,buying, design, development, and App development, strategy, content writing, website strategy, design, development, and optimization, website support and maintenance, photography, video production, digital marketing. optimization, support maintenance, animated andwebsite live action videoand production. animated and live action video production.

430 Hazeldean Kanata, ON K2L 1T9 Ottawa, K2PRd 1L4Unit 6 Kanata, ON K2L 1T9 613-519-8501 613-759-4423 613-519-8501 arcticleaf.io baytek.ca arcticleaf.io

19 7 19

2010 1994 2010

Sébastien Belley, Executive Director Joshua Garellek Jim Hopkins, Creative Director Joshua Garellek Chad Sehn, Technical Director

BoosterNASA, Juice, Blood GoogleServices, Canada, Global Manitoba Toyota, BoosterNational Juice, Google Canada, Hydro, Arts Centre, Affairs, United Nations, Google Manitoba Earth, Hydro, National Arts Centre, REALTOR.ca, Xplore, YouTube Canada REALTOR.ca, Xplore, YouTube Canada Accreditation Canada, Drain-All, Fairtrade Canada, Fertilizer Canada, Innovative Medicines Canada, National WND Trust for Canada, OrKidstra, Regional WND Group, WaterPower Canada, Women in Nuclear Canada, Welch LLP

1101-343 Preston St. 111 York St. Ottawa, ON K1N 5T4 Ottawa, ON K1S K1N 1N4 5T4 613-266-8841 613-963-9666 613-266-8841 atomicmotion.com webshark.ca atomicmotion.com

15 6 15

1999 2003 1999

Dan Cummins Matthew Lapierre Dan Cummins

Design and Web development, UX and UI specialists, Web development, design, e-commerce, digital SEO, Design and Web development, UXmedia, and UIlocal specialists, App strategy, content writing, hosting/support/maintenance, application App development, content writing, photography, videostrategy, production, digital marketing. development. video production, digital marketing. photography,

7 5 7

1994 2001 1994

Sébastien Belley, Executive Director Sébastien Executive Director Jim Hopkins, Creative Director Dave Hale,Belley, CEO Jim Hopkins, CreativeDirector Director Chad Sehn, Technical Chad Sehn, Technical Director

5 6 6

1999 2003 2003

Purewater Pool, Postcard Perfect, Toyota, NASA, Blood Services, Global Villanova Dental, Grapvine Real-Estate, Toyota, NASA, Blood Services, Global Affairs, United Nations, Google Earth, Interactive Audio Visual, Connelly and Affairs, United Nations, Google Earth, Koshi, Stittsville Optometry, Osgoode Health Centre Accreditation Canada, Drain-All, Accreditation Canada, Drain-All, Fairtrade Canada, Fertilizer Canada, Fairtrade Canada, Fertilizer Canada, Innovative Medicines Canada, National WND Innovative Medicines Canada,Regional National Trust for Canada, OrKidstra, Trust for Canada, OrKidstra, Regionalin Group, WaterPower Canada, Women Group, WaterPower Canada, Nuclear Canada, Welch LLP Women in Nuclear Canada, Welch LLP Purewater Pool, Postcard Perfect, Purewater Pool, Postcard Villanova Dental, GrapvinePerfect, Real-Estate, WND Villanova Real-Estate, InteractiveDental, Audio Grapvine Visual, Connelly and Interactive Audio Visual, Connelly and Koshi, Stittsville Optometry, Osgoode Koshi, Stittsville Optometry, Osgoode Health Centre Health Centre

1 THE LIST 2 Spiria

60 Promenade du Portage Gatineau, QC J8X 2K1 819-205-1800 https://www.spiria.com/

Iversoft

M114-4338 Innes Rd Orleans, ON K4A 3W3 Company/Address 613-421-3498 Company/Address Phone/Fax/Web iversoft.ca Phone/Fax/Web

211 4 2 2 5 2 2 6 4 4 5 7 5 6 8 6 7 9 7 9 8 8

RealDecoy Spiria E2-1309 Carlingdu Ave. Spiria 60 Promenade Portage

Ottawa, ONQCK1Z 7L3 60 Promenade du Portage Gatineau, J8X 2K1 613-234-9330 Gatineau, QC J8X 2K1 819-205-1800 realdecoy.com 819-205-1800 https://www.spiria.com/ https://www.spiria.com/ Craft&Crew Corp.

Iversoft 203-421 Richmond Iversoft M114-4338 Innes RdRd. Ottawa, ON K2A M114-4338 Rd Orleans, ONInnes K4A4H1 3W3 613-518-1008 Orleans, ON K4A 3W3 613-421-3498 craftandcrew.ca 613-421-3498 iversoft.ca iversoft.ca Arctic Leaf RealDecoy 430 Hazeldean Unit 6 RealDecoy E2-1309 Carling Rd Ave. Kanata, K2L 1T9 E2-1309 ON Carling Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Z 7L3 613-519-8501 Ottawa, ON K1Z 7L3 613-234-9330 arcticleaf.io 613-234-9330 realdecoy.com realdecoy.com Atomic Motion Craft&Crew Corp.

111 York St. Craft&Crew Corp.Rd. 203-421 Richmond Ottawa, ON K1N 203-421 Richmond Ottawa, ON K2A5T4 4H1Rd. 613-266-8841 Ottawa, ON K2A 4H1 613-518-1008 atomicmotion.com 613-518-1008 craftandcrew.ca craftandcrew.ca

Arctic BaytekLeaf Arctic Leaf 430 Hazeldean Rd Unit 6 1080-150 Elgin St.

Atomic Motion Webshark Atomic Motion 111 York St.

Baytek Fenix Baytek 1080-150 Elgin St.Rd. 14-5370 Canotek

THE LIST 1080-150ON Elgin Ottawa, K2P 1L4 K1JSt. 9E7 Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4 613-759-4423 613-564-3344 613-759-4423 baytek.ca fenix-solutions.com baytek.ca

N-VisionIT Interactive Webshark 206-1505 Laperriere Webshark 1101-343 Preston St. Ave,

Ottawa, K1Z 7T1 1101-343 ON Preston St. Ottawa, ON K1S 1N4 613-722-1965 Ottawa, ON K1S 1N4 613-963-9666 betterwebsites.ca 613-963-9666 webshark.ca webshark.ca Company/Address WND = WouldFenix not disclose Phone/Fax/Web Fenix 14-5370 Canotek Rd. 14-5370 Canotek Rd. Ottawa, ON K1J 9E7 Ottawa, ON K1J 9E7 613-564-3344 NAV CANADA 613-564-3344 fenix-solutions.com 151 Slater St. fenix-solutions.com Ottawa, ONInteractive K1P5H3 N-VisionIT 613-563-5588 N-VisionIT Interactive 206-1505 Laperriere Ave, navcanada.ca 206-1505 Ottawa, ONLaperriere K1Z 7T1 Ave, Ottawa, K1Z 7T1& Security, Canada 613-722-1965 CAE ON Defense 613-722-1965 betterwebsites.ca 200-350 Legget Dr. betterwebsites.ca Ottawa, ON K2K 2W7 Company/Address WND = Would not disclose 613-223-6797 Company/Address Phone/Fax/Web WND = Would not disclose cae.com Phone/Fax/Web

9 9 1 9 9 2

No. of local employees 5 5

THE LIST

(RANKED BY NUMBER OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES) Reid IvensLapierre Matthew Matthew Lapierre

Audi, Bell, Harlequin, Farm Boy, Health Canada, SimWin, OttawaU, CAMH Notable current clients Notable current clients

Year est. in Ottawa Key Ottawa Publicly traded?/ executive Exchange Major clients 2001 Dave Hale, CEO WND 2001 Dave Hale, CEO WND Raymond G. 1996 Bohn, No Airlines using Canadian airspace President (RANKED BY NUMBER OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES) and(RANKED CEO BY NUMBER OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES) 1999 Reid Ivens WND 1999 Reid Ivens WND

Services offered We combine customer-centric strategies, data-driven design and value-led software development to build digital products and experiences that transform businesses.

End-to-end mobile app development, web development, progressive web apps and software development. Sub-services such as software prototyping, UX/UI design, ongoing support and Services offered maintenance.

Services offered We combine customer-centric strategies, data-driven Plans, develops, and manages digital solutions for We combine customer-centric strategies, data-driven design and value-led software development to build government andand SaaS businesses. design and value-led software development to build digital products experiences that transform digital products and experiences that transform businesses. businesses.

End-to-end mobile app development, Media planning, buying, and campaignweb management, End-to-end mobile app development, web development, progressive web apps and software website strategy, design, development, and development, progressive web apps and software development.

Sub-services such as software optimization, website support and maintenance, development.

Sub-services suchproduction. as software prototyping, design, ongoing support and animated andUX/UI live action video prototyping, maintenance.UX/UI design, ongoing support and maintenance.

Website design, app development, graphic design, custom development, marketing, Website app& development, graphic design, branding. strategy,design, branding creative branding.

Website design, custom development, Enterprise web software development,marketing, custom Website design, custom development, marketing, strategy, branding & creative application development, WCMS (Drupal). strategy, branding & creative

Web design, e-commerce,of digital media, local apps SEO, and Design and development websites, mobile Web design,software. e-commerce, digitalapplication media, local SEO, hosting/support/maintenance, enterprise hosting/support/maintenance, application development. development.

Specialty areas

Enterprise web software development, custom Enterprise software development, custom applicationweb development, WCMS (Drupal). application development, WCMS (Drupal).

Sophisticated network of area control centres, air traffic control towers, flight service stations, maintenance centres, flight info centres and navigation aids.

Design and development of websites, mobile apps and Design andsoftware. development of websites, mobile apps and enterprise enterprise software.

AEROSPACE AEROSPACE COMPANIES COMPANIES Year est. in Ottawa 1947 Year est. traded?/ in Ottawa Publicly Publicly traded?/ Exchange Exchange

151 SlaterON St.K1P Ottawa, 1A4 Ottawa, ON K1P5H3 Ottawa, ON K1P5H3 613-688-0698 613-563-5588 613-563-5588 lockheedmartin.ca navcanada.ca navcanada.ca

350 1,450 1,450

Raymond G. Raymond G. Lorraine Bohn, Bohn, Ben President President and CEO and CEO

200-350 Legget Dr. Kanata, K2V 1A6 Ottawa, ON ON K2K 2W7 Ottawa, ON K2K 2W7 613-599-9199 613-223-6797 613-223-6797 curtisswrightds.com cae.com cae.com

1 305 755 755

870-45 St. Ottawa, ON 2P7 Ottawa, O'Connor ON K2P K1P 1A4 Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4 613-748-0123 613-688-0698 613-688-0698 telesat.com lockheedmartin.ca lockheedmartin.ca

WND Major clients Major clients

Civil aviation, defence and security, healthcare.

Specialty areas Specialty areas

1996 1995 1996 No No

Defence, systems integration Airlines using Canadian airspace Airlines using Canadian airspace

Sophisticated area control centres, traffic control towers, Naval combat network systems,of C4ISR, data fusion, ISS,air radar systems, Sophisticated network of area control centres, air traffic controland towers, flight service stations, maintenance centres, flight info centres manufacturing, aerospace engineering, training and logistics flight service stations, maintenance centres, flight info centresservices. and navigation aids. navigation aids.

Charles France France Falardeau Hebert Hebert

1981 1947 1947

Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, BAE WND WND Systems, General Dynamics

Ottawa office specializes in engineering embedded computing modules that ruggedized forand usesecurity, by commercial airplanes, helicopters, fighter Civil are aviation, defence healthcare.

Civil UAVs, aviation, defence and security, jets, ground vehicles and navalhealthcare. platforms.

283 350 350

Michele Lorraine Lorraine Beck Ben Ben

1969 1995 Yes 1995 TSAT

Broadcast, telecom, corporate and Defence, systems integration government Defence, systems integration

Global satellitesystems, operatorC4ISR, providing Naval combat datasecure fusion,satellite-delivered ISS, radar systems, Naval combat systems, C4ISR, data fusion, ISS, radar systems,services. communications solutions worldwide. manufacturing, aerospace engineering, training and logistics manufacturing, aerospace engineering, training and logistics services.

333 Palladium Ottawa, ON K2V K1JDr. 9J3 Kanata, ON 1A6 Kanata, ON K2V 1A6 613-744-3530 613-599-9199 613-599-9199 gastops.com curtisswrightds.com curtisswrightds.com

210 1 305 305 1

Shaun Charles Horning, Charles Falardeau CEO Falardeau

1979 1981 No 1981

Pratt & Whitney, Collins Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, Boeing,Bell GE Aviation, IMP Aerospac, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, BAE Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Helicopte, Airbus Helicopters, Avio LockheedGeneral Martin, Dynamics Raytheon, BAE Systems, Aero, DND, USAF Dynamics Systems, General

Online monitoring sensors, analysis, complexcomputing modeling/simulation, Ottawa office specializes in at-line engineering embedded modules Ottawa specializes in engineering embedded computing modules lab testing, engineering, design, and MRO services for Breeze Eastern that areoffice ruggedized for use by commercial airplanes, helicopters, fighter that are ruggedized for useand by commercial airplanes, helicopters, fighter products & ground FLIR systems. jets, UAVs, vehicles naval platforms. jets, UAVs, ground vehicles and naval platforms.

2100-160 Elgin St.2P7Rd. 200-1220 Old Innes Ottawa, ON K2P Ottawa, ON K2P 2P7 K1B 3V3 613-748-0123 613-748-0123 613-744-7257 telesat.com telesat.com mdsaero.com

283 200 283

John Michele Jastremski, Michele Beck President Beck and CEO

1969 1969 1985 Yes Yes TSAT TSAT

Rolls-Royce,telecom, Pratt & Whitney, Broadcast, corporateAir and Broadcast, telecom, corporate and France, Solar Turbines, NPO Saturn, government government Siemens, MTU

Global satellite provideroperator of turnkey test facilities, test equipment and test Global providing securespecial satellite-delivered Global operator providing securecomponents satellite-delivered servicesatellite solutions for engines and engine in the aerospace, communications solutions worldwide. communications solutions worldwide. industrial and marine markets.

1011 Polytek St. 9J3 302 Legget Dr. Ottawa, ON K1J Ottawa, K1J 9J3 Kanata, ON K2K 1Y5 613-744-3530 613-744-3530 613-599-7602 gastops.com gastops.com mda.space

210 210 150

Shaun Shaun Horning, Horning, John CEO Fisher CEO

1979 1979 1969 No No Yes TSX:MDA

Pratt & Whitney, Collins Aerospace, Canadian Space Agency, DND, Pratt & Whitney, Aerospace, GE Aviation, IMP Collins Aerospac, Bell Lockheed Martin, Airbus, Boeing, GE Aviation, IMP Aerospac, BellAvio Helicopte, Maritime Airbus Helicopters, European Safety Agency, Helicopte, Airbus Helicopters, Avio Aero, DND, USAF Sierra Nevada Corp., OneWeb, Aero, DND, USAF Northrop Grumman, MELCO

Online monitoring sensors, at-line analysis, complex modeling/simulation, Online monitoring sensors, at-line analysis, complexfor modeling/simulation, lab testing, engineering, design, and MRO services Breeze Eastern lab testing, engineering, andoperations, MRO services for Breeze Eastern Geointelligence, robotics and space satellite systems. products & FLIR systems.design, products & FLIR systems.

200-1220 Old Innes Rd. Renfrew, ON K7V 4E7 Ottawa, ON K1B 3V3 Ottawa, ON K1B 3V3 613-432-6136 613-744-7257 613-744-7257 etmindustries.on.ca mdsaero.com mdsaero.com

200 115 1 200

John John Jastremski, Jastremski, Robertson, President President and CEO and CEO

1985 1977 1985

Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney, Air Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Aerospace, Whitney, Air Dynamics, Arnprior France, Solar Turbines, NPO Saturn, France, Solar Turbines, NPO Saturn, Honeywell, Heroux-Devtek, L3, Siemens, MTU Siemens, MTU Gastops, NAV Canada, Parker, PCC

GlobalCNC provider of turnkey test facilities, special testcapabilities; equipment tool and room test Metal machining and plastic injection molding Global offor turnkey test facilities, special test equipment and test serviceprovider solutions engines and components the aerospace, (in-house made jigs, fixtures, dies engine and plastic injectionin molds); all aspects service solutions for engines and engine components in the aerospace, industrial andfrom marine of inventory raw markets. stock and castings to bought-out finished goods. industrial and marine markets.

Canadian Space Agency, DND, Airbus, Bombardier, IMP/Cascade, Canadian Space Agency, Lockheed Martin, Airbus,DND, Boeing, CAE, Longview Aviation/Viking Air, Lockheed Martin, Airbus, Boeing, European Maritime Safety Agency, Department of National Defence, European Maritime Safety Agency, Sierra Corp., OneWeb, GDMS Nevada Sierra Nevada Corp., MELCO OneWeb, Northrop Grumman, Northrop Grumman, MELCO Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Boeing, Lockheed General Dynamics, ArnpriorMartin, Aerospace, Dynamics, Aerospace, Honeywell,Arnprior Heroux-Devtek, L3, Honeywell, Heroux-Devtek, L3,PCC Gastops, NAV Canada, Parker, Gastops, NAV Canada, Parker, PCC

Communications, navigation, simulation and training systems, avionic systems, flight management systems, data fusion and networking, Geointelligence, robotics and solutions, space operations, satellite systems. interiors, connected aviation landing systems, electrified Geointelligence, robotics and space operations, satellite systems. aircraft, autonomous operations

5 3 6 4

Telesat Lockheed Martin Canada Lockheed Martin 2100-160 Elgin St. St.Canada 870-45 O'Connor

Curtiss-Wright CAE Defense & Defense Security,Solutions Canada CAE Defense &Dr.Security, Canada 333 Palladium Dr. 200-350 Legget

Gastops Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions Curtiss-Wright 1011 Polytek St.Dr. Defense Solutions 333 Palladium

MDS Gas Turbine Engine Telesat Telesat Solutions 2100-160 Elgin St.

Gastops Gastops MDA 1011 Polytek St.

MDS Gas Turbine Engine MDS Gas Turbine Engine ETM Industries Solutions Solutions 310-266 200-1220Hall OldAve. Innes Rd.

Collins MDA Aerospace

MDA Steve Mills 2006 104-30 Edgewater St 1969 302 Legget Dr. 1969 302 Legget Dr. 1V8 70 Louis Yes Kanata, ON 150 John Fisher Yes Kanata, ON K2L K2K 1Y5 150 John Fisher Yes Kanata, ON K2K 1Y5 Brunet RTX 613-595-2200 TSX:MDA 613-599-7602 TSX:MDA 613-599-7602 collinsaerospace.com mda.space mda.space 1 ETM Industries WND = Would not disclose Did not respond to this year's survey in time for publication. This information is from previous years.

ETM Industries John 310-266 Hall Ave. 1977 John 310-266 Hall Robertson, 115 11 Renfrew, ON Ave. K7Vobj.ca 4E7 OTTAWA BUSINESS JOURNAL 1977 Robertson, 115 Renfrew, ON K7V 4E7 President 613-432-6136 President 613-432-6136 etmindustries.on.ca etmindustries.on.ca

9

Caterpillar, Autodesk, Nortac Defence, Shutterstock

AEROSPACE COMPANIES

France Key Ottawa Hebert Key Ottawa executive executive

31 4 2

7 9 10 8

5 5

Notable current clients

DIGITAL STRATEGY AND WEB DEVELOPMENT FIRMS (RANKED BY NUMBER OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES)

No. 755 of local No. of local employees employees

Lockheed Martin Canada NAV CANADA NAV CANADA 870-45 O'Connor St. 151 Slater St.

5 7 6 8

1,450

Key local executive

Metal CNC machining and plastic injection molding capabilities; tool room Metal CNCmade machining and plastic molding tool room BOOKcapabilities; OFmolds); LISTSall 2024 45 (in-house jigs, fixtures, diesinjection and plastic injection aspects (in-house made jigs, diescastings and plastic injection molds); allgoods. aspects of inventory from rawfixtures, stock and to bought-out finished of inventory from raw stock and castings to bought-out finished goods.

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OUTSIDE THE COMFORT ZONE: OUR TOP 10 REVEAL HOW THEY’VE PUSHED BOUNDARIES

BY ANNE HOWLAND

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comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.”

Loved this quote from one of our fastestgrowing company top 10 recipients, Aydin CPA. From reading the profiles of our top 10, it’s obvious that all of our recipients have pushed themselves beyond their comfort zones to pursue their dreams — and they’re seeing their businesses grow as a result.

At the same time, it seems to me that they are well within their comfort zone when it comes to working hard and having a passion for what they do.

Still, running a fast-growing business takes more than passion. And this is where I was interested to see a couple of common themes among our top 10.

One was all around finding the staff needed to support growth and retaining those staff in today’s market. As Sampford Advisors says, “Being able to staff up with the right team members that fit the existing culture has always been our biggest challenge, but it OTTAWA BUSINESS JOURNAL obj.ca

was even more prevalent during COVID because of a lack of talent and how quickly we had to scale compared to previous years when we had time to anticipate staffing needs.” And this from Aydin, “Despite our excellent clientele growth, we didn’t have enough team members to meet the needs of our clients.”

Many of our top 10 recipients have shared great lessons learned on this topic.

Another theme was around culture. Food Cycle Science comments, “Maintaining our company culture is a crucial part of our growth strategy. We recognize that, as we scale, it becomes increasingly difficult to preserve the unique values and culture that helped to propel us to success in the first place.” Knak says, “We have a people first culture and have worked extremely hard to maintain this as we grow. We don’t want to lose what makes Knak such a special place to work.”

The importance of culture and its obvious ties to attraction and retention make for fascinating reading in these top 10 profiles.

Finally, there was the need for pivoting. The fast

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Bushbalm

1,026% LAST YEAR’S RANK: 1

Noibu Technologies Inc.

954%

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 2

Sampford Advisors

817%

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 8

Fellow

729%

LAST YEAR’S RANK: NEW IN 2023

Food Cycle Science Corporation

426%

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 6

Sidi.io

426%

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 7

Aydin CPA Professional Corp.

317%

LAST YEAR’S RANK: NEW IN 2023

TryCycle Data Systems Inc.

315%

LAST YEAR’S RANK: NEW IN 2023

Purecolo

234%

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 10

Knak

212%

LAST YEAR’S RANK: NEW IN 2023

growth experienced by this year’s top 10 happened during one of the most tumultuous times in recent history: the COVID pandemic. Business models were changed on the fly and, as we emerge post-pandemic, must continue to evolve in fundamental ways. Purecolo says that, “As many companies are uncertain about the future in these market conditions, it has made it hard to grow, as we also need to grow responsibly and not just spend whatever it takes to grow.” Bushbalm adds that, “During COVID, the growth in e-commerce was rapid, but has reverted to the average in 2022. Our business was primarily focused on e-commerce, but we had to pivot to other channels.”

All these factors add up to a delicate balance.

Hire fast, but maintain culture. Grow rapidly, but be prepared to change direction.

For our top 10, the comfort zone of hard work and passion is a beautiful place. But to truly grow at these exponential rates, they’ve had to step outside that zone and learn to manage whatever challenges come their way.

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TECHNOLOGY

Startup Canada’s CEO Kayla Isabelle on what’s missing in the local tech scene How do you make sure there's that competitiveness within the industry in a local area?

BY MIA JENSEN

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ttawa’s tech industry is, once again, at a crossroads.

In a conversation with OBJ, Kayla Isabelle, CEO of the Ottawa-based entrepreneurship organization Startup Canada, weighed in on the health of Canada's tech sector post-pandemic.

According to Isabelle, the tech industry in Ottawa must contend with a multitude of challenges, including a lack of brand identity to attract companies and talent, and a need for leadership and a coherent growth strategy.

Here is part of that conversation. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.

What can you tell me about the health of the Canadian tech industry as we’re coming out of the pandemic?

There has been a lot of turbulence in the last couple of years. We've seen tremendous growth and then we've also seen major dips: losing staff, retention, losing talent to different countries even. Folks aren’t even looking at Canada the same way that they may have been, even a year ago. But I will say that there's been a lot of movement, to collaborate, to reinspire, to find additional leadership and really seize this moment that Canada has to be a leader in the tech and innovation space. There's so much buy-in from governments, from the private sector, from incubators, accelerators and all the folks in the ecosystem. They see this as a great moment for entrepreneurs. But I think we're coming from a position of a lot of uncertainty and a lot of exhaustion.

What are some of the things the industry might be able to leverage going forward to help growth?

There's so much that we can learn from Waterloo, because they have a very similar structure and story to Ottawa. They had this brand that was an incredible startup turned behemoth and, when it fell apart, the consequence of that was this huge entrepreneurial movement. Folks started new businesses, taking all of that incredible talent and recycling it back into new ideas with brilliant focus behind these businesses. We saw the ecosystem really show up with new incubators and accelerators, really being that soft landing. Waterloo became this huge pool for talent and still to this day is one of the highest-ranked Canadian cities when it comes to tech.

In Ottawa, we see a similar pattern with, for example, Shopify moving the headquarters and laying off workers.

All of the talent that was pulled to Ottawa, to shape that moment, could be recycled back into incredible entrepreneurs. We’re already seeing people laid off from these massive corporations that were doing so much hiring in the last couple of years.

Ottawa could have this moment of really providing support to those entrepreneurs with great early stage incubators and formal programs that get started on the right foot. That could really create ripple effects of more entrepreneurial thinking, bringing more talent and bringing more investments.

Then, on the back of that, probably the biggest

Kayla Isabelle, CEO, Startup Canada. PHOTO SUPPLIED challenge for Ottawa is that nobody’s thinking about Ottawa. If you look at the amount of talent and the number of companies we have, we should be punching so much more above our weight. But we’re not perceived as a competitive player in Canada when it comes to housing tech startups. So how do we really shift that brand perception to demonstrate the great success stories, to showcase more than just the Shopifys and put Ottawa on the map?

Shopify moving the headquarters and laying off workers. All of the talent that was pulled to Ottawa, to shape that moment, could be recycled back into incredible entrepreneurs.

What are the challenges and potential directions that we can take to maintain the presence of mature companies in Ottawa?

Ottawa has so many perceived and real barriers for entrepreneurship, but there’s also a hierarchy of needs: housing, transit, vibrancy in a city and feeling connected with people around you, all those essential ingredients.

If we don't have those elements, people will not come.

So I think investing in all of those scaffolding elements around Ottawa. We can look to so many other incredible cities that have been able to demonstrate the impact of that in creating entrepreneurial thinking and creativity.

Ottawa still has a long way to go in that space.

That’s where you attract larger companies, as well.

But we also need to think about the entire ecosystem as a continuum and not spending too much on larger players. If you have a really competitive early stage startup ecosystem and you invest early into it, those will become the Shopifys of tomorrow.

I think it's a balance of investing in spaces where people can connect and share their entrepreneurial ideas. We need more of that in Ottawa and less of the bureaucracy and perceived risk aversion.

What you see in places like Whitehorse, Halifax and Calgary is radical collaboration. Every stakeholder in entrepreneurship — that’s the investors, incubators, accelerators, government players at the municipal, provincial and federal level — all of these folks are sitting in the same room and advocating for the same sentiment and growth and looking to a positive future.

What I see in Ottawa right now is too many conversations running in circles and a lack of leadership saying, “Hey, here's the concrete direction that we're all rallying towards. Here are our specific roles and responsibilities in that ecosystem.” There's really a missing accountability. In other cities, we see these champions who are relentlessly pushing that agenda forward and it's paid off.

In Ottawa, we often get stuck needing the answer to every single detail and planning meticulously.

Yes, we need that basic collaboration, but we need a commitment to action and that’s what is holding us back at this moment. People want to see this leadership, but nobody’s really seizing it.

How have other cities gone about formalizing that process to make that happen?

It’s formal and informal, with a lot of government support, bringing in all of the players that want to see a healthy city. A healthy city benefits the large corporates, the early stage startups, local governments and citizens that have nothing to do with the tech ecosystem. We need to think of it as a true ecosystem and what makes the health of that is a collective responsibility, not just making it one person’s problem.

A perfect example is Calgary. They had a sort of blank slate space, a parking garage, and decided they could create a really cool coworking space for incubators, for new entrepreneurs, different office spaces, and that has symbolically become this area of collaboration in the tech ecosystem.

What is the equivalent in Ottawa? Who is creatively trying to create spaces where ideas and people are naturally bumping into each other? We have a fragmented city. Ultimately, it’s almost spiritual, practical in some ways, rallying around an idea and an energy; Ottawa doesn’t have that energy right now.

How optimistic are you about what the industry in Ottawa can do moving forward?

Ottawa has all the ingredients: so many great companies and great leaders. We have the appetite and interest in making it very competitive across Canada and across the world. The disconnect between that and where we can go shouldn't be too far. We just need the commitment to action and really moving that dial.

That's really a shift that needs to happen, which is arguably one of the easiest things to do. And that's also what it is to be an entrepreneur. People don't want to sit around and wait five years for something to happen.

Startups, their natural, competitive advantage is speed.

If we want to be competitive, we also need to move quickly.

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Ottawa is ‘off to the races,’ hotel association boss says, and higher hotel room tax won’t hurt

BY SARAH MACFARLANE

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hile hotel guests spending a night in Ottawa will face a tax increase in 2024, at least one local industry expert says Ottawa’s “unique” situation will ensure the tax revenues are put to good use.

The City of Ottawa's 2024 budget proposes increasing the Municipal Accommodation Tax rate from four per cent to five per cent, effective Jan. 1, 2024. The tax is collected by hotels on all rooms in the city, with proceeds supporting marketing Ottawa as a tourist destination.

While hotel guests and tourists might not welcome the increase, Steve Ball, president of the Ottawa-Gatineau Hotel Association, said, with the help of the city, the taxes

will bolster local tourism.

“Nobody likes taxes. But we went from four to five per cent, whereas cities like Toronto went from four to six,” he explained. Ball said the city recognizes “that the value tourism brings to the Ottawa economy offsets additional property taxes that residents would have to pay without this influx.”

In fact, Ottawa’s system for collecting and managing the funds is the “envy of the country,” Ball argued, explaining that all of the tax revenues collected flow through Ottawa Tourism and the Tourism Development Council, which is comprised of stakeholders such as the Ottawa Board of Trade, the Ottawa International Airport Authority, Invest Ottawa, the Shaw Centre, the National

Capital Commission and the City of Ottawa.

“It ensures that we’ve got community input as we develop and evolve the tourism industry in Canada and in Ottawa,” Ball said. “That’s what’s unique and special.

I really do thank the mayor, council and city manager Wendy Stephanson for their foresight to recognize it’s best to let the tourism industry decide where the best growth in tourism could come from.”

Although increased cost could deter some visitors, Ball said he doesn’t think the rate hike alone would be to blame. Between increases in costs for airline tickets, hotels and restaurants, “inflation has impacted everything,” he said. “(The tax) is one of many concerns around pricing …

From a leisure perspective, there’s concern everywhere,” he continued. “So I’m not going to point to this increase specifically.”

Ball said Ottawa has “good value” compared to places like Toronto, Vancouver and Quebec City. Ottawa is uniquely positioned, he said, with the tourism industry poised to invest in the local economy and focus the funds from the tax on things such as festivals and local projects.

“That’s unique. That’s not what's going on in other markets,” said Ball. “Nobody likes taxes, but that’s the reality of the situation. At least we’re managing it in a very, very effective way. We’re quite excited about 2024 – Ottawa is off to the races.”

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Tourism may not recover for another two years, foot traffic ‘still missing' While tourism officials in Ottawa point to some positives for the 2023 summer season, they say the industry may not fully recover to pre-pandemic levels until 2024 or 2025.

At the same time, some businesses are feeling the pinch of lagging foot traffic.

Often considered the No. 1 tourist destination in the city, the Byward Market is struggling with crime and homelessness, as well as the shuttering of some wellknown businesses.

Nicolas Bonnet, social media and marketing manager for Le Moulin de Provence, said the bakery, a popular tourist destination, has yet to see a full return to prepandemic traffic.

“There’s been a lot of attention to other neighbourhoods and tourists are moving towards Lansdowne and other parts of the city,” said Bonnet. “A lot of events that used to take place in the Market aren’t happening here as much anymore and there are a lot of things missing, something is still missing.”

The neighbourhood might be less appealing to tourists since the pandemic, Bonnet said, with the closure of many familiar businesses.

“Ottawa is popular … But based on my point of view, I think there’s been more attention to other neighbourhoods and other districts,” he said.

“There are so many closed doors in the Market and companies and businesses haven’t been seen to be totally coming out of it.”

Although business at Le Moulin is going well and the staff feel “very fortunate,” Bonnet said the foot traffic is “nothing compared to before” the pandemic.

“Just seeing people walking around, going to the Rideau Centre … It’s not just our store, but in general, there’s less of a presence.”

Tourism officials welcome Air France flight direct to Paris In a decision local tourism and economic development officials hailed as an “amazing development,” Air France announced early in 2023 that it would launch direct flights between Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and Ottawa International Airport in June – the first direct route between Canada’s capital and Europe since 2020.

The announcement came as welcome news to officials at YOW, where passenger traffic plummeted from 5.1 million in 2019 to just 1.2 million two years later as COVID-19 wreaked havoc with the tourism industry.

Overseas visitors stay an average of 12 days in the region and spend $1,000 per person, Ottawa Tourism says, compared with an average of 3.5 days and $500 in spending for visitors from the U.S. and 2.5 days and an average spend of $250 for Canadian visitors.

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to Ottawa, they stay longer and they also spend more,” Ottawa Tourism president and CEO Michael Crockatt said. “They’re very beneficial for Ottawa’s economy.

This is money that they’re choosing to (spend) here and support our businesses. It’s fantastic.”

Crockatt said the new flights will help “reduce friction” for European travellers looking to visit Ottawa who previously had to connect through other Canadian hubs like Toronto or Montreal.

“We know that any time a new flight like this is put into a market, it really does stimulate travel between the two cities and any connecting market,” he said.

“It’s a smaller proportion of our (visitors), but this is an opportunity to help that grow.”

Crockatt said the flights put Ottawa back on the map with European tour operators, convention-goers and other big-ticket customers such as international sports organizations.

“It’s a tool in our belt to convince convention planners that Ottawa is a great place,” he said. “It really does give us some new opportunities to grow that international market, to grow those longer-stay travellers.”

Crockatt said he sees the new routes as another indication that Ottawa’s star is on the rise as a tourist destination.

“We think that there are lots of opportunities to continue to build on our key markets, and a flight like this helps,” he said.

“It helps bring a whole lot of people one flight closer to Ottawa than they were yesterday. We should be cautious with our optimism, but boy, I’m still pretty optimistic.”

SS Keewatin brings multiple tourism options to Kingston, officials say One of the last remaining passenger steamships of the Edwardian era has docked in its new home at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in what Tourism Kingston CEO Megan Knott calls an “incredibly exciting legacy project.”

The SS Keewatin launched in 1907, just five years before the RMS Titanic, and boasts a grand staircase, tea

lounge, ballroom, scrolled balustrade and 100-plus state rooms, many of which will be staged with donated period costumes and decor as the ship enters a new phase of its life as a museum attraction.

At 116 years old, the ship represents Kingston’s “juxtaposition of old and new,” Knott said, and brings a multitude of tourism opportunities to the city.

The Keewatin, which is expected to open for visitors in the spring, brings opportunity “for every sector we work in,” Knott said, from leisure and business tourism, to film, culinary, music and the travel trade.

Knott said visitors to Kingston can tour and explore the “iconic” ship and learn about the Great Lakes at the marine museum.

“It’s also an exciting opportunity to be able to have a year-round product, which is challenging in some locations, but this is something that can be done all year,” she added. “It’s ideal.”

As well, the Keewatin could serve as a filming location and an attraction for Kingston’s entertainment industry, she added. With interior decor that appears frozen in time, Knott said there’s a “huge opportunity” to film and host events in the space.

“There’s also potential as an event space or venue. We work in business events and there’s always opportunity for culinary events, small meeting spaces and the possibility of that small, unique space.”

At its new home, the ship could potentially influence travel trade from the cruise ships that use the St. Lawrence River, she continued, adding to the contrast between history and modernity.

“We’re a community that represents that juxtaposition really well. We’re historical in architecture and we often share those stories, but we’re also a city of innovation and growth,” said Knott.

“It’s important to see that it’s something the Keewatin represents as well.

“As large ships come in, if you’re coming from the Ottawa and Montreal corridor or through the Windsor and Toronto corridor, you’re going to go right past (the Keewatin). It shows that juxtaposition between new and old,” she said.

“There’s discussion of the city looking at potentially facilitating a larger deep-water dock because it would be great in the future to see a large ship parked beside this Titanic-era old ship.”

The ship will go on display in 2024 as the museum’s main attraction and the only ship in its 350-foot drydock.

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The Westin Ottawa

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Marriott Ottawa

3

11 Colonel By Dr. Ottawa, ON K1N 9H4 613-560-7000 marriott.com/yowwi 100 Kent St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5R7 613-238-1122 ottawamarriott.com

101 Lyon St. N Ottawa, ON K1R 5T9 613-237-3600 marriott.com/yowdm

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Hilton Lac-Leamy

100 Elgin St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5K8 613-235-3333 lordelgin.ca 3 Casino Blvd.

Gatineau, QC J8Y 6X4 819-790-6444 hiltonlacleamy.com 361 Queen St. Ottawa, ON K1R 0C7 613-234-6363 hilton.com

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Brookstreet

2400 Alert Road Ottawa, ON K1V 1S1 613-288-9001 ottawaairport.hgi.com 525 Legget Dr. Ottawa, ON K2K 2W2 613-271-1800 brookstreet.com

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Les Suites Hotel, Ottawa

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Sheraton Ottawa Hotel

14 14

Free internet?/ Parking/ CAA rating

325

Y Y Y Y

Y $48 3

Marriott International Ross Meredith

WestinWORKOUT Fitness Studio, indoor saltwater pool, Peloton bikes, Westin Heavenly Bed & Bath, Marriott Bonvoy member benefits, express check-in and check-out, business centre, 50" TV, refrigerator, indoor access to Rideau Shopping Centre and LRT.

489

WND

Y Y Y Y

Y WND 4

Manga Hotels Cole Sheridan

Spin Kitchen & Bar, Starbucks, concierge floor/ lounge, HDTV, in-room safes, fridge, Marriott Bonvoy program, 24-hour fitness club, pool, kids club, laundry, 36,000 square feet of meeting space including revolving Summit room.

410

265

Y Y Y Y

Y $25 4

Marriott International Ross Meredith

Indoor saltwater pool, fitness studio, business centre, smart desk, free Wi-Fi, express check-in and check-out, Club Level, Marriott Bonvoy Member benefits, Prova | Bar & Kitchen, easy access to LRT.

355

WND

Y Y Y Y

Y $39 3

Gillin Engineering and Construction David Smythe

Complimentary in-room coffee/tea and local calls, free Wi-Fi, business centre access for all guests, restaurant, 24-hour fitness centre, sauna and lap pool, 13,000 square feet of meeting space.

349

WND

Y Y Y Y

Y WND 4

Casiloc (Resto-Casino) Patrick Lamy

Renovated guest rooms, room service, 47" HDTV, three two-line phones, in-room safe, business centre, fitness and spa, heated indoor and outdoor pools open all year, 51,000 square feet of conference space.

346

150

Y Y Y Y

Y $25 3.5

Morguard Investments Wayne Day

Microwaves, mini-fridges and 50" HDTVs in all rooms, on-site restaurant, lobby bar, evening room service, snack shop, indoor heated pool, 24-hour complimentary fitness center. see above for both hotels

325

150

Y Y Y Y

Y WND WND

Jeff Cameron

Non-smoking hotel; business center; fitness center; free Wi-Fi; free parking

276

250

Y Y Y Y

Y $15 3

Brookstreet Hotel Corp.

Nyle Kelly

The Marshes championship golf course, Perspectives Restaurant, daily live music in Options Jazz Lounge, Au Naturel Spa, Flex Fitness Center with indoor and outdoor pools, Blackbird Falls mini golf, Zone 525 games room, 30,000 sq ft of flexible event space.

261

60

Y Y Y Y

Y Complimentary WND

Crown Group of Hotels Jean Pierre Benjamin

7,100 square feet of meeting space (up to 200 people), three boardrooms, executive floor, internet kiosk, indoor pool, Reza's Restaurant & Bar, tuck shop, fitness centre.

250

WND

Y Y Y Y

Y $35 WND

Fidelitas Holding Ltd Heidi Webster Heidi Webster

Suites with kitchens, meeting and banquet rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows, indoor pool, hot tub, sauna, fitness room, children's play areas, private patio, pets welcome.

239

WND

Y Y Y Y

Y WND 3

Manga Hotels Chris Pierce

Condo-sized suites, full kitchen, separate living/dining area, private balcony, ensuite washer/dryer, complimentary 24-hour business centre and fitness centre, indoor pool, meeting rooms.

236

WND

Y Y Y Y

Y WND 3

Chateau Ottawa Hotel Yolaine Charette

Carleton Grill and Sasha's Bar, Sheraton Club level rooms with Sweet Sleeper beds, access to Sheraton Club Lounge, Marriott Bonvoy member benefits, HD TV, Sheraton Fitness Centre, indoor pool, business centre, large spacious guestrooms with safe and refrigerator.

201

WND

N Y Y Y

Y $17 4

12815371 Canada Inc Sheila Love

Breakfast, coffee, local beer, free bottled water, smoke-free, close to Canadian Museum of History, bright meeting rooms, A/V support.

182

WND

N Y Y Y

Y WND 3

Ocean Properties Nancy Champagne

Fully renovated, bistro featuring Starbucks coffee, in-room coffee maker, large working desk and chair, indoor pool, fitness centre, meeting rooms, Marriott Rewards

182

WND

N N Y Y

Y $18 3

Anu Sohal

Guest laundry, complimentary hot breakfast.

179

60

N N Y Y

Y WND 3

Bona Building and Management Co. Nuala Dinardo

Free breakfast buffet, free local calling and calling-card calls, movie channel, voicemail, 24-hour tea/coffee in lobby, non-smoking, access to 43,000 square feet of meeting space.

177

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Y Y N Y

Y WND 3

Peter Wilson Peter K. Wilson

Fully renovated, rebranded, and accessible hotel. Onsite restaurant, meeting rooms, 7 kitchen suites, fitness center, one block from LRT (light rail transit). Underground heated parking, guest laundry, offering IHG Business Rewards & IHG One Rewards.

152

WND

Y Y Y Y

Y Complimentary 3

InnVest Hospitality Alana Haining

Non-smoking guest rooms, 32" LCD TVs, mini fridge, microwave in all rooms, parking, fitness centre and pool, 5,000 square feet of meeting space, on-site Italian restaurant, pet friendly, offers IHG Rewards.

148

WND

N Y N Y

Y WND 3

Germain Hotels Dino Gurusamy

Complimentary Wi-Fi, 24-hour fitness centre, 24-hour Altcetera Caf?, seven meeting rooms, in-room Nespresso coffeemaker, pet-friendly, flexible check-out time when guests book direct.

No. of employees

492

Holiday Inn Ottawa East

1199 Joseph Cyr St. Ottawa, ON K1J 7T4 613-744-1060 hiottawaeast.com

Cartier Place Suite Hotel

13

Room service?/ Restaurant?/ Pool?/ Fitness centre?

No. of guest rooms

Hilton Garden Inn Ottawa Downtown & Homewood Suites Ottawa Downtown

Hilton Garden Inn Ottawa Airport

9

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Delta Hotels by Marriott Ottawa City Centre

Lord Elgin Hotel

6

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180 Cooper St. Ottawa, ON K2P 2L5 613-236-5000 suitedreams.com

130 Besserer St. Ottawa, ON K1N 9M9 613-232-2000 les-suites.com 150 Albert St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5G2 613-238-1500 sheratonottawa.com

Four Points by Sheraton Hotel & Conference Centre Gatineau-Ottawa 35 Laurier St. Gatineau, QC J8X 4E9 819-778-6111 marriott.com/yowfp

Courtyard by Marriott Ottawa Downtown 350 Dalhousie St. Ottawa, ON K1N 7E9 613-241-1000 / 613-241-4804 marriott.com/yowcy

Holiday Inn Express Ottawa Downtown East 235 King Edward Ave. Ottawa, ON K1N 7L8 613-680-8006 hiexpress.com

16

Hampton by Hilton Ottawa

17

Holiday Inn Ottawa Dwtn Parliament Hill

18

Holiday Inn & Suites Ottawa Kanata

19

Alt Hotel Ottawa

100 Coventry Rd. Ottawa, ON K1K 4S3 613-741-2300 / 613-741-8689 hamptoninn3.hilton.com

402 Queen St. Ottawa, ON K1R 5A7 613-236-1133 / 613-271-2317 www.holidayinn.com/OttawaDwtnON 101 Kanata Ave. Kanata, ON K2T 1E6 613-271-3057 / 613-271-3060 hisottawa.ca 185 Slater St. Ottawa, ON K1P 0C8 613-691-6882 althotels.ca/en/ottawa

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No. of employees / Year founded

Owner / General manager

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185 Lyon Street N., Ottawa, ON K1R 7Y4 613-702-6710 mintoapartments.com

417

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400

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Daily rates starting at $149 per night

120

WND 2003

GWL Realty Advisors WND

120

10 2007

Rick Aubry

111

WND 2020

Andreas Spove

63

WND 2007

Morguard Investments Pam McHale

1

WND 2009

Vladimir De Suarez Paulina Avellaneda

60

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LIV Extended Stay (InterRent REIT) Dominique Quinn

Flex Property Developments | Short & Suite BNB 484 Gladstone Ave Ottawa, ON K1N 5N8 613-712-6844 flexproperty.ca

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20 & 24 York St. Ottawa, ON K1N 1K2 613-482-3344 / 613-860-8702 clarendonlanes.ca

Description and amenities

$265 per 30 days Y N Weekly service

Downtown Ottawa, Westboro, Kanata, Ottawa South, Ottawa East, Orléans

Our suites are spacious, and newly renovated, with 24/7 concierge and premium amenities like a full fitness centre, saltwater lap pool, sauna, and more.

Y (Included in quotes) Y N WND

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Wifi, self check in, parking, hot tubs, saunas, fenced in backyards, downtown and suburb properties, fully equipped kitchens

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Clarendon Lanes (ByWard Market)

Rooftop patio with stainless steel BBQs, 24-hour fitness room, on-site laundry, storage, self-controlled heating and cooling, large private balconies in select units, fully equipped kitchen, linens and towel provided.

$12/day Y Y Bi-weekly

Downtown Ottawa, Westboro, Kanata, Ottawa South, Ottawa East, Orléans

Fully furnished one, two, three and four-bedroom condos and town homes. Fully equipped kitchens, in-suite laundry, fitness centre/pool, pet friendly, 24/7 guest assistance.

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101 Queen St.

Fully furnished suites with in-suite laundry, fully equipped kitchens, coffee machine and queen sized beds. State-ofthe-art gym, saunas, business centre, private lounge, games room, theatre room and iconic Skylounge.

Six months $1,700-$2,300

$150/month Y N N

160 Chapel

24-hour security, gym, spa, heated salt-water pool, sauna, laundry, private terrace with barbecues, cable TV.

30 Nights

$300/month Y N Upon request

50 Laurier Ave. E., 169 Lisgar St., 170 Metcalfe St., 199 Slater St., 1140 Wellington St. W., 40 Kirkland Dr. (Kanata)

Fully furnished studio, one, and two-bedroom condos. Fully equipped kitchens, in-suite laundry, fitness centre/pool, pet friendly, 24/7 guest assistance.

Monthly rates starting at $105/night

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Complimentary in-house restaurant, theatre room, business centre, pet spa, 24-hour fitness facility, rooftop terrace with hot tubs, fire pits, commercial BBQs, service bar, lounge seating and outdoor dog run.

30 days from $120/ night

Y - $200/month for stays over 30 days; $12 a day for shorter stays Y N Weekly

SR Lisgar - 300 Lisgar St. SR Champagne - 111 Champagne Ave.

Fully furnished one and two-bedroom suites, luxury designed interiors, spacious living areas, floor-to-ceiling window, in-suite laundry, fully-equipped designer kitchens, gym, coffee lounge, pet-friendly, BBQ patio, hot tub, lap pool.

126 Sparks

24-hour security, utilities included, self-controlled heating and air-conditioning, Smart TV with sound bar, DVD player, private terraces available in some suites, in-suite laundry, fully equipped kitchens, towels and linens included, unlimited high-speed Wi-Fi.

75 Y Y Weekly

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HD TV with digital Rogers cable, spacious one and twobedroom suites, fully-equipped eat-in kitchen with utilities, air conditioning.

Complimentary Y Y Fee-based, at tenant's request

Beechwood Village

Fully serviced, flat-screen TV with basic cable, DVD player, in-suite laundry, fireplace, individually controlled airconditioning, gas stove, fully equipped kitchen, host available by text and phone, coded locks.

1 Year

Premiere Suites

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5 6

160 Chapel

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Corporate Stays

8

LIV Extended Stay

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SoHo Residences Apartment Hotels 300 Lisgar St. Ottawa, ON K2P 0E2 613-558-8747 sohoresidences.ca

10

126 Sparks

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12

Village Suites

126 Sparks St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5B6 613-237-6373 126sparks.com

1983 Carling Ave. Ottawa, ON K2A 1E9 613-722-4273 mckellarparksuites.com

1866 Beattie Ave. Ottawa, ON K1H 5R8 613-620-3625 VillageSuites.ca

WND = Would not disclose

1

Seven nights $125-$225

One Night

56 1

WND 2009

Soho Residences (SR) Jane Kirchmann

35 1

WND 2006

Morguard Investments Tim Henry

Three months

35

WND 1958

Gomes family Diana Gomes Guzman

Three night minimum 35

41

WND WND

WND

Parking?

Free Wi-Fi? Landline phone?

Housekeeping?

Locations

Minto One80five

reStays Ottawa

9

EXTENDED STAY & FURNISHED SUITE PROVIDERS (RANKED BY NUMBER OF SUITES)

Two weeks

$150/month Y Y For a fee

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1 2 3 4

4899 Uplands Dr. Ottawa, ON K1V 2N6 613-822-8800 / 613-688-4824 eycentre.ca 55 Colonel By Dr. Ottawa, ON K1N 9J2 613-563-1984 / 613-563-7646 shaw-centre.com

85 University Pvt. Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 613-562-5771 / 613-562-5201 reservations.uottawa.ca

7

Palais des congres de Gatineau

801 Aviation Pky. Ottawa, ON K1K 4R3 613-742-2483 collegelacite.ca

1701 Woodroffe Ave. Nepean, ON K2G 1W2 613-580-2424 x41540 / 613-580-9607 ottawa.ca 50 Maisonneuve Blvd., 3rd floor Gatineau, QC J8X 4H4 819-595-8000 / 819-595-8012 congresgatineau.com

8

Hilton Lac-Leamy

9

The Westin Ottawa

3 Casino Blvd.

Gatineau, QC J8Y 6X4 819-790-6444 hiltonlacleamy.com 11 Colonel By Dr. Ottawa, ON K1N 9H4 613-560-7000 marriott.com/yowwi

200 Coventry Rd. Ottawa, ON K1K 4S3 613-288-3450 / 613-667-9888 ottawaconferenceandeventcentre.com

In-house catering? / Free parking?

12 90,000

6,000 10,000

0 4,700

WND

Y N

192,000

Nina Kressler Dan Young

28 57,740

5,000 4,000

3,000 3,000

WND

Y N

150,000

Kendra Reay

135 7,200

444 450

800 340

WND

Y N

90,000

Julie LoiselleMs.

200 16,000

420 500

700 240

WND

Y N

70,000

Annie Chartrand

212 12,000

1,000 500

400 500

WND

Y Y

70,000

Dale Johnson

13 8,640

900 1,000

0 480

WND

Y Y

60,000

Pierre Latour

12 26,668

2,800 4,000

1,750 1,750

$450—$19,500

Y N

51,000

Lise Sarazin Patrick Lamy

16 15,866

1,068 1,750

140 1,100

$750—$12,500

Y Y

48,700

Shaddy Shibley Ross Meredith

33 16,650

1,500 1,100

140 1,250

WND

Y N

43,000

Claudio Dinardo

37 11,000

1,000 1,000

100 800

$400—$10,500

Y Y

40,144

Claude Brulé

20 11,760

1,200 1,256

60 1,200

WND

Y N

38,596

Ross Meredith

22 9,840

1,080 1,025

140 900

WND

Y N

36,000

Ash Wilby

26 6,500

600 600

180 600

WND

Y N

30,000

Mark Nisbett Nyle Kelly

25 7,200

800 1,200

265 500

$475—$14,000

Y N

22,000

Sean Cochrane Romain Coquin Brittany Waitman

40 14,000

500 250

200 200

$30—$5,000

Y N

20,500

Nelson Borges

7 7,000

2,800 3,100

200 2,500

WND

Y N

20,000

Nathalie Boulet

8 3,100

220 300

75 130

$800—$3,300

Y N

17,160

Jahn Fawcett

4 6,458

500 350

0 0

WND

N Y

17,095

Lisa Leblanc

5 4,740

300 500

0 200

$650—$6,000

N N

17,000

Laura (Lee) Hebb

6 15,000

1,800 1,500

1,200 1,200

WND

Y Y

Algonquin College

1385 Woodroffe Ave. Ottawa, ON K2G 1V8 613-727-4723 x7481 algonquincollege.com/food-services/

Delta Hotels by Marriott Ottawa City Centre 101 Lyon St. N Ottawa, ON K1R 5T9 613-237-3600 marriott.com/yowdm

13 14

Brookstreet

15

TCC Canada

18 19 20

Neill Bales

219,000

Daily rental rate

Ottawa Conference and Event Centre

Marriott Ottawa

17

Restaurant capacity / Banquet capacity

University of Ottawa Conventions & Reservations

5

16

Theatre capacity Reception capacity

Key local executive

Carleton University, Conference Services

1125 Colonel By Dr., 172 Teraanga Commons Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6 613-520-5611 conferenceservices.carleton.ca/

Nepean Sportsplex

12

No. of meeting rooms / Largest meeting room (sq. ft.)

Total meeting space (sq. ft.)

Shaw Centre

5

11

(RANKED BY TOTAL MEETING SPACE)

EY Centre

La Cité Collégiale

10

MEETING AND CONVENTION SPACES

100 Kent St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5R7 613-238-1122 ottawamarriott.com 525 Legget Dr. Ottawa, ON K2K 2W2 613-271-1800 brookstreet.com 150 Elgin St, 800 Ottawa, ON K1P 5V8 613-566-7000 tcccanada.com

National Arts Centre - Meetings and Events 1 Elgin St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5W 613-232-5713 / 613-943-1403 nacmeetings.ca

Canadian Museum of Nature

240 McLeod St. Ottawa, ON K2P 2R1 613-566-4713 nature.ca

Shenkman Arts Centre

245 Centrum Blvd.

Ottawa, ON K1E 0A1 613-580-2787 / 613-580-2656 shenkmanarts.ca

Canada Science and Technology Museum 1867 St Laurent Blvd Ottawa, ON K1G 5A3

Infinity Convention Centre 2901 Gibford Drive Ottawa, ON K1V 2L9 613-696-1580 infinityconventioncentre.com

WND = Would not disclose

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2901 Gibford Drive Ottawa, ON K1V 2L9 613-696-1580 infinityconventioncentre.com 223 Main St. Ottawa, ON K1S 1C4 613-236-1393 x2311 ustpaul.ca

101 Centrepointe Dr. Ottawa, ON K2G 5K7 613-580-2424 x41216 / 613-580-2704 https://meridiancentrepointe.com/

24 24

Strathmere

26

Lord Elgin Hotel

392 Notre Dame St. Montebello, QC J0V 1L0 819-423-6341 / 819-423-5106 fairmont.com/montebello 2451 Riverside Dr. Ottawa, ON K1H 7X7 613-733-5100 racentre.com

1980 Phelan Rd W. North Gower, ON K0A 2T0 613-489-2409 / 613-489-2630 strathmere.com 100 Elgin St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5K8 613-235-3333 lordelgin.ca

No. of meeting rooms / Largest meeting room (sq. ft.)

Theatre capacity Reception capacity

Restaurant capacity / Banquet capacity

Daily rental rate

In-house catering? / Free parking?

17,000

Laura (Lee) Hebb

6 15,000

1,800 1,500

1,200 1,200

WND

Y Y

15,658

Alexandra Mongrain

8 4,600

180 300

90 150

$300—$2,000

Y N

15,564

Allan Sansom

5 10,000

954 250

0 0

WND

N Y

15,531

Cindy Gascon Steve Chang

20 4,200

425 500

350 350

WND

Y Y

15,000

Kelly ShawSwettenham

8 6,690

300 300

180 200

$195—$1,150

Y Y

15,000

Mary McGill

8 2,800

250 600

50 500

$550—$750

Y Y

13,000

David O. Smythe

15 2,200

200 225

160 160

$400—$6,000

Y N

12,000

Nadhem Adnani

7 6,302

720 800

150 400

$400—$4,000

Y Y

10,000

Earl Stanley

4 6,000

600 600

400 350

WND

Y Y

8,810

Kerry-Leigh Burchill

8 2,600

150 500

0 150

$650—$3,000

N N

8,410

Leanne Moussa

7 3,100

325 325

200 200

WND

Y N

8,000

Sheila Love

10 2,700

150 160

45 120

WND

Y N

7,648

Lucy Giampietro

8 2,600

225 225

77 180

$375—$950

Y Y

7,000

Louise Wyllie Sue Ellis

7 2,434

60 75

200 64

$300—$1,500

Y N

7,000

Mike Wallace

10 1,200

40 40

0 0

WND

Y N

6,994

WND

9 2,720

225 250

85 184

$450—$3,500

Y N

6,400

Ravinder Tumber

3 2,800

120 120

140 120

WND

Y Y

5,480

Martin Patterson

5 2,000

150 230

230 230

WND

Y Y

5,355

Amelie Neault

4 5,350

75 180

100 100

$240—$960

Y N

5,000

Fayez Thawer

7 2,000

180 200

90 170

WND

Y Y

Chateau Cartier Hotel & Resort Ascend Collection 1170 chemin d'Aylmer Gatineau, QC J9H 7L3 819-778-0000 / 819-777-7161 chateaucartierhotelresort.com

28

Stanley's Olde Maple Lane Farm

29

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

32

Key local executive

Meridian Theatres @ Centrepointe Theatres & Ben Franklin Place

RA Centre

31

Total meeting space (sq. ft.)

Saint Paul University

23

30

(RANKED BY TOTAL MEETING SPACE)

Infinity Convention Centre

Fairmont le Château Montebello

27

MEETING AND CONVENTION SPACES

2452 York's Corners Rd. Edwards, ON K0A 1V0 613-821-2751 / 613-821-5221 stanleysfarm.com

901 Prince of Wales Dr. Ottawa, ON K2C 3J9 613-327-4611 https://ingeniumcanada.org/

allsaints event space 317 Chapel Street Ottawa, ON K1N 7Z2 613-230-3336 allsaintsottawa.ca

Four Points by Sheraton Hotel & Conference Centre Gatineau-Ottawa 35 Laurier St. Gatineau, QC J8X 4E9 819-778-6111 marriott.com/yowfp

Holiday Inn Ottawa East

1199 Joseph Cyr St. Ottawa, ON K1J 7T4 613-744-1060 hiottawaeast.com

33

Dow's Lake Court Conference Centre

33

Innovative Professional Offices

35

Sheraton Ottawa Hotel

36

Host India Banquet Hall

37

Anderson Links Golf Club

38 39

The Atelier (Social Innovation Workshop)

865 Carling Ave., 2nd floor Ottawa, ON K1S 5S8 613-725-3855 / 613-725-3101 dowslakecourt.com

200-440 Laurier Ave. W. Ottawa, ON K1R 7X6 613-232-1110 / 613-782-2228 innovativeprofessionaloffices.com 150 Albert St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5G2 613-238-1500 sheratonottawa.com 622 Montreal Rd. Ottawa, ON K1K0T6 613-875-6724. hostindia.ca

4175 Anderson Rd. Ottawa, ON KOA 1K0 613-822-9477 / 613-822-9440 andersonlinks.com 95 Clegg St., Ottawa, ON K1S 1C4 613-782-3006 innovationsocialeusp.ca/en/workshop/space

Best Western Plus Ottawa Kanata Hotel and Conference Centre 1876 Robertson Rd. Ottawa, ON K2H 5B8

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BeaverTails’ sweet success lands Grant and Pam Hooker 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award

BY CAROLINE PHILLIPS

G

rant and Pam Hooker recently got a phone call they never would have expected. The founders of Canadian pastry chain BeaverTails learned that they’d been selected as the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award recipients by the Ottawa business community.

“I was really glad I was sitting down,” said Pam of her astonished reaction mixed with disbelief.

They were told the good news by Ottawa Board of Trade president and CEO Sueling Ching and the Ottawa Business Journal’s publisher, Michael Curran, and editorin-chief, Anne Howland.

Grant also found himself shocked and pleasantly surprised. “I kind of thought, ‘Why us?’ I look at all the other people who have done what I would consider the equivalent or more and there are certainly people who built bigger businesses than ours.

“Anyway, we’ll take what comes our way.”

The husband and wife, both of whom are 79 years old, were even more flattered and humbled when they heard the distinguished names of all those who’d won the award before them. “It’s such a privilege to be part of that list, that’s what I thought,” said Pam. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes the Hookers’ long-term business success, innovation and perseverance, strong leadership and remarkable community involvement.

Along with building the BeaverTails brand, the couple has been the heart and soul of the Canadian Tulip Festival, an annual multi-day celebration that takes place in Ottawa each spring.

As well, Grant played a key role in the 1980s in stopping the controversial proposal for a 17-storey hotel in the core of the ByWard Market, out of concern the tower would physically overshadow the Market and open the historic area to larger-scale development. The project ultimately got rejected and the ByWard Market went on to be designated a heritage conservation district.

The Hookers’ story is the stuff of dreams for the young and adventurous. Originally from the United States, they came to Canada with their young family in the early 1970s during the counterculture movement, settling in the Ottawa Valley village of Killaloe. They originally lived as homesteaders in a shack built from an abandoned horse stable with no running water or electricity.

They first introduced the BeaverTail to the public at the Killaloe fair in 1978, using a recipe from Grant’s GermanCanadian grandmother. They next brought the doughy delights to Ottawa’s ByWard Market, where they caught on in popularity once they were introduced to skaters on the frozen Rideau Canal.

BeaverTails remain as much a Canadian tradition as hockey, maple syrup and being nice.

Today, there are roughly 200 BeaverTails locations, including operations in Dubai, France, Japan, Mexico and the U.S. The Hookers sold their majority ownership in 2002 but retained 35 per cent ownership of the franchise company, carving out the National Capital Region, which they continue to control with partner and CEO Andy Cullen.

BeaverTails has employed a total of more than 10,000 young people over the years.

“You can’t live in Ottawa and be connected to the

Pam and Grant Hooker, founders of BeaverTails, recipients of the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award. PHOTO BY CAROLINE PHILLIPS

business, government and the not-for-profit community and not know Grant and Pam,” said Ottawa Board of Trade board chair Brendan McGuinty, who has fond memories of enjoying BeaverTails at the Ottawa SuperEx at Lansdowne Park when he was a kid.

“They built a fabulous, fabulous business and for me personally, they’re the kind of team, the kind of leaders, that really embody what success is. When you look at people like Grant and Pam, you think of the successful business they have built and the global brand that they have created and I really think they did it on some oldfashioned — and this may sound a bit corny to say — but on some old-fashioned values: hard work, honesty, integrity and humility.”

McGuinty also holds the Hookers in high esteem for staying true to their roots. “They really just have wonderful traits and they’re the kind of couple I want my kids to look up to. They built a business, they built a brand, but they’re really fundamentally honest, hard-working, decent people who give back to their community. What more can you ask for, and that’s what we really need to celebrate.”

The couple’s impact on Ottawa has been “profound,” said Jim Durrell, former mayor of Ottawa and a past recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award.

“The mere fact that the president of the United States would drop by to get a BeaverTail speaks volumes,” he said of the moment when then-president Barack Obama was served an “ObamaTail” at the George Street kiosk during his first state visit to Ottawa in 2009.

“I don’t think you could buy that publicity for all the money in the world,” said Durrell. “And that, probably, in my mind, is what they’re all about. They make people

happy. They serve good food. They’re good to their employees and they’re just an integral part of what I call our tourism and local fabric.

“I’ve always admired them and respected what they’ve been able to accomplish, particularly as a couple of radical kids coming up from California.”

Former Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and construction industry trailblazer Shirley Westeinde has seen how “totally dedicated” her friends are to their business and to the Canadian Tulip Festival, which “wouldn’t still be around if it wasn’t for them,” she said.

Westeinde also spoke to the strength of the Hookers as a couple. They’ve been married 57 years and work “solidly” as a team.

“They have a fantastic sense of humour and if you meet them you’d never have any comprehension of the fact that they’re successful business people,” said Westeinde. “They're just down to earth, very encouraging to their employees and really, really fun to be with. They really are.”

Westeinde joked about how some people raise an eyebrow when she mentions her visits with the Hookers in the ByWard Market. “And when I say ‘BeaverTails’ that just adds to the confusion of what I’m talking about,” she added with a laugh.

The Hookers and their fellow award recipients were celebrated at the 2023 Best Ottawa Business Awards at The Westin Ottawa.

No, the dessert wasn't BeaverTails. Among the reasons: it’s too logistically difficult to serve them piping hot to hundreds of guests and the pastries can be a tad messy to eat. “We don’t want anyone wearing cinnamon and sugar at this event,” said Pam playfully.

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Bold Woman award winner Jennifer Flanagan brings STEM to underrepresented youth

BY MIA JENSEN

I

n the last year alone, technology has changed at such a breathless pace, it can be hard to keep up.

But for Jennifer Flanagan, making sure educational materials for youth are keeping up with the times is just part of the job.

Flanagan is president and CEO of Ottawa-based Actua, which hosts a cross-Canada network that provides STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education to youth underrepresented in the workforce to prepare them for the jobs of tomorrow.

When it comes to STEM fields, she said that though it isn’t always easy to keep up with the pace of change, it’s a vital part of what her company does.

“We adapt the content every year and sometimes more frequently,” she said. “This time last year, we didn’t have ChatGPT content because it hadn’t even been launched yet. Now we have to ask ourselves immediately, ‘What does this mean for education and how are kids going to use it?’ We’re developing content to teach them how to use it as a tool.”

With over 25 years of experience as a leader in STEM education, Flanagan was recently recognized by Veuve Clicquot, receiving the 2023 Bold Woman Award. The award celebrates a woman who demonstrates entrepreneurial daring, reinventing tradition and maintaining an ethical approach to business.

"Winning the Bold Woman Award is a celebration not only of my journey, but also of the collective efforts of the Actua network in advancing women and underrepresented youth in STEM,” said Flanagan.

“Together, we have championed equity and diversity and I am proud to be a part of this community of bold women.”

Flanagan grew up in New Brunswick and earned a bachelor’s degree studying biochemistry and psychology at the University of New Brunswick. She later went on to earn an MBA from McGill University, but it was her time as an undergraduate that led her to a career in STEM education.

“One day I saw a poster — literally a handwritten poster on the wall — that said, ‘Want to start a science camp with me?’” she said. “That poster and the fact I responded to it changed the course of what I would do in the future.”

Flanagan said this initial foray into education combined all of her interests. She’d previously worked as a camp counsellor and already knew she loved working with kids. An avid volunteer, the camp program allowed her to use those skills to teach the subject she was so interested in.

“I spent that first summer starting this program,” she said. “We travelled all over the province, basically getting kids excited about science.”

It was a formative experience, and one that echoes in the work she does today.

“I grew up with a lot of opportunity and privilege in that I could pursue whatever I wanted,” she said. “I felt

encouraged and supported. That summer, we visited communities in New Brunswick that were facing huge barriers. That’s where I think the seeds of Actua really were planted.”

In its earliest iteration, the company relied on federal funding, but when that funding ran out, it needed a new, more sustainable business model. In 2000, Flanagan was brought on as the company’s first employee and was instrumental in creating the vision for Actua, which combined two separate organizations with different subject matter expertise to bring science, technology, engineering and math together.

A ton of kids " don't know they have a place in science and they have so much to offer.

"

Jennifer Flanagan, CEO, Actua.

Now, the company engages youth across the countries in STEM subjects through summer camps, classroom workshops, clubs, teacher training, and community outreach activities. Through its partner universities and colleges, Actua supports hands-on programs that allow students to learn key skills and explore STEM. “I’m in awe of how the organization has evolved, but also maintained its core focus, which has always been on removing barriers to engaging in STEM, building inclusivity in these fields and engaging youth that no other organization is engaging,” said Flanagan.

When it comes to STEM education, Flanagan said the barriers can vary widely from community to community.

Actua has created a national network, which includes 40 universities and colleges, that engages 350,000 youth each year who are underrepresented across STEM fields.

Those young students include girls and young women, Indigenous youth, Black youth, First Nations youth, and youth from rural and Arctic communities.

In many cases the barriers are systemic and socioeconomic. According to Flanagan, these students often lack access to opportunities that are available to their peers. Part of Actua’s goal is to put those opportunities in front of them and give them access to the tools they need to take advantage.

“A ton of kids don’t know that they have a place in science and they have so much to offer,” she said.

As president and CEO, Flanagan said it’s her job to be a champion, advocate, lobbyist and spokesperson on topics like “tech equity” and access to education.

According to her, addressing these issues isn’t just important for the kids themselves.

“Our vision is to contribute to Canada being one of the leaders globally in education, not just for the sake of being in the lead, but also for what comes from having strong STEM education,” she said. “It means socially that we are more inclusive; that we’re filling in workforce gaps with people who are underemployed or unemployed; that we have an economy that is strong, inclusive and that generates the kind of returns that benefit all of us.”

Just as Actua strives to keep pace with rapidly changing industries to prepare youth for the future, Flanagan said it will also continue to expand its reach to support even more kids.

“There are a ton of kids that still need to be reached and supported,” she said. “We’ll continue doing this work and we’re in 500 communities now, but kids keep coming and, as they get older, they have different needs. It’s really continuing to understand where they are meeting you and meeting them there.”

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Water resources engineer pens children’s book on ‘magic’ of Earth After decades of working in the “constellation” between science and public policy, one Ottawa scientist is ready to make waves in a new area — the world of children’s books.

Mary Trudeau began her career as a civil engineer specializing in water resources before pursuing a PhD and founding two consultancy companies. Now, she says, she “can turn any conversation into a conversation about water” — and it’s time to bring a younger audience into the discussion.

“It's easy, because 90 per cent of humans, depending on age and hydration level, is water. It’s us, it’s our environment, it’s what we look for when we look for life on other planets,” she said. “I love playing in it, I love working in it, I love its beauty, and it’s such an amazing thing … Really, it all comes from a passion for water.”

As a civil engineer, Trudeau managed municipal water infrastructure and provided science-informed policy consultations, where she got a “good sense” for working in “the constellation that is the space between science and policy.”

From there, Trudeau became a business owner and principal at Marbek Resource Consultants Ltd., which was acquired by ICF International in 2011. Due to a noncompete agreement as part of the acquisition, Trudeau pursued a PhD in urban hydrology before founding Envirings Inc., an Ottawa-based policy consultancy, in 2014, where she is now director.

Between consulting with various agencies and teaching at both the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, Trudeau says she’s decided to tap into “kids’ natural sense of wonder” to accomplish her mission.

“I’ve worked in policy, program development, blah, blah, blah, for 20 years,” she laughed. “And it just feels that the most important thing to do right now is that we really need to love our planet.”

And so, what began as absent-minded sketches and scribbles 10 years ago has now been realized in A Tale of Two Planets, a passion project that Trudeau rediscovered on a shelf and “dusted off.”

“I draw, I paint a little bit and I did a few little cartoons, thinking, ‘What if a planet didn’t work for us, what if it didn’t just recycle nutrients and water like ours does?’” she said. “I put it literally on a shelf and found it (when I was) dusting and last summer I thought, ‘I either have to do something with this or throw it out.’

“But I couldn’t throw it out.”

In the illustrated children’s book, Wooshidooz creatures – inspired by Trudeau’s son, who invented this name for aliens and imaginary beings as a child – live on the planet Retha, a “planet without magic,” and hear bedtime stories of “the Magic Planet”, Earth.

Retha is a planet “without a lot of magic,” where trees grow plastic leaves, pollen is Wooshidooz-made and water is collected and moved by hand, which the Wooshidooz do happily to take care of their home. When they hear stories about Earth and its “magical” selfsufficiency, they know it must be imaginary. But one little Wooshidooz named Anaag believes that Earth is more OTTAWA BUSINESS JOURNAL obj.ca

Author Mary Trudeau with her children's book A Tale of Two Planets. LAURIE ANNE KING PHOTOGRAPHY

than a bedtime story, and he sets off to learn about its magic for himself.

A Tale of Two Planets introduces readers to the magic of Earth’s water that Trudeau says has always inspired her.

“It’s about recognizing what (the planet) does for us, because we give more than we take, and it’s about wonder,” explained Trudeau. “If (kids) can keep that wonder and appreciate the planet, they can teach their parents. Parents learn a lot from their kids, speaking from experience, and it’s a two-way street.

“And if they take permission to be amazed, it’s a reminder that this is an amazing place, it’s really magic.”

The book encourages readers to think of caring for the planet the way they would an “ailing parent,” Trudeau continued, leading with “TLC” and “taking good care … We really need to start thinking of our planet in that way too.”

may not, but a book is like your mind.”

Shannon is feeling much less anxious these days; all the feedback she’s been getting from her peers in the industry has been “wonderful”.

“It was scary to push myself into a place that was uncomfortable and new, but I have just been received with so much love and support and encouragement, and it means so much,” she told dozens of friends and family who came out to celebrate during a launch party at Somewhere Dine Bar on Murray Street in the ByWard Market.

Shannon, who’s worked in Nashville, as well as Ottawa, said she wrote You and the Music Business with the goal of helping to empower other artists. She’s an expert in the area through Syndicut Music, her music coaching business and membership community for independent music creators looking for guidance and support.

Shannon and her business partners also run their own record label, Willow Sound Records.

“Really, the book is just an extension of the coaching I do every day,” said Shannon, who lives just outside of Ottawa in the small town of Russell. “I wanted people who don’t have access to a coach or a manager to have something in their back pocket, to feel less alone, because navigating this path can be challenging.”

The book has “one foot in self-help and one foot in the music business,” she explained. “It’s not like, ‘This is how you make it in the music business’ because I don’t subscribe to any of that. To be successful in the business of music, you first need to be successful in the business of you.”

Music technology and social media have made it easier for artists to produce, sell and promote their work and, ultimately, connect with their fans and a global audience. “You don’t need to slug it out until someone with power discovers you, determines you more special than everybody else, plucks you from the masses and elevates you to stardom,” said Shannon.

“That’s really disempowering. These days, you don’t need that.

“You need to build your own business. My book is very much about showing artists how they can take their power back and not let somebody else define how they can live the life they want for themselves.”

Tara Shannon’s new book helps artists in the music biz One might think musician and entrepreneur Tara Shannon would be totally comfortable authoring a book, given her background in writing songs and performing her material on the big stage.

Yet, she found herself feeling surprisingly anxious when she was preparing to release You and the Music Business, A Self-Care Guide to Finding Balance and Joy in Today’s Music Industry, by Lucky Book Publishing. She wasn’t used to sharing her thoughts and opinions in such an indelible way.

“I put music out all the time, I play in front of lots of people, but this was different,” she said in an interview to discuss her book. “People may like your music or they

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THE LIST Company/Address Phone/Fax/Web

CAR DEALERSHIP GROUPS (RANKED BY NUMBER OF DEALERSHIPS IN OTTAWA)

# of dealerships in Ottawa

Year founded in Ottawa

Dealerships

1

Myers Automotive Group 1200 Baseline Rd. Ottawa, ON, K2C 0A6 myers.ca

14

1942

Myers Barrhaven Hyundai, Myers Barrhaven Nissan, Myers Barrhaven Toyota, Myers Barrhaven Volkswagen, Myers Chevrolet Buick GMC Ottawa, Myers Hunt Club Volkswagen, Myers Infiniti, Myers Kanata Chevrolet Buick GMC Corvette, Myers Kanata Hyundai, Myers Kanata Nissan, Myers Kanata Volkswagen, Myers Orleans Jeep Dodge Chrysler, Myers Orléans Chevrolet Buick GM, Myers Orleans Nissan

2

S. Dilawri Auto Group 370 Hunt Club Rd. West Ottawa, ON K2E 1A2 nobodydealslike.com

10

1985

Orleans Mitsubishi, Bank Street Hyundai, Bank Street Mitsubishi, Bank Street Mazda, Bank Street Kia, Kia On Hunt Club, Dilawri Chrysler Jeep Dodge, Hyundai On Hunt Club, Barrhaven Chrysler, Barrhaven Mazda

3

Mark Motors Group 611 Montréal Rd Ottawa, ON K1K 0T8 markmotorsgroup.com

8

1959

Alfa Romeo Ottawa, Audi City Ottawa, Audi Ottawa, Audi West Ottawa, Jaguar Hunt Club, Land Rover Hunt Club, Maserati Ottawa, Mark Motors Porsche

4

Alpha Auto Group 1040 Ogilvie Rd. Ottawa, ON K1J 8G9 alpha-autogroup.com

7

N/A

Elite BMW, Mini Ottawa, Camco Acura, Bank Street Toyota, Civic Motors Honda, Orleans Honda, Ogilvie Subaru

5

Donnelly Automotive Group 2496 Bank St. Ottawa, ON K1V 8S2 donnellyford.com

4

N/A

Donnelly Ford, Donnelly Lincoln, Donnelly KIA, Donnelly Mitsubishi

5

Tony Graham Automotive Group 1855 Merivale Rd. Ottawa, ON K2G 1E3 tonygraham.com

4

1969

Tony Graham Toyota, Tony Graham Lexus, Kanata Toyota, Tony Graham Auto Edge

7

Bel-Air Team 440 & 450 McArthur Ave. Ottawa, ON K1K 1G6 belairteam.com

3

1971

Bel-Air Lexus Toyota, Orleans Toyota

7

Surgenor Automotive Group 939 St. Laurent Blvd.

Ottawa, ON K1K 3B1 surgenor.com

3

1973

Surgenor Barrhaven, Surgenor Hyundai, Surgenor Ottawa

9

Otto’s BMW 660 Hunt Club Rd. Ottawa, ON, K1V 1C1 bmwottos.ca

2

1969

Otto’s BMW Centre, Otto’s Subaru

10

Campbell Ford Sales 1500 Carling Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Z 0A3 613-725-3611 campbellford.com

1

1921

Campbell Ford

10

Civic Motors Honda 1171 St. Laurent Blvd.

Ottawa, ON K1K 3B7 613-741-6676 / 613-741-7709 civicmotors.com

1

1975

Honda

10

Southbank Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ltd. 1255 Johnston Rd. Ottawa K1V 8Z1 613-731-1970 southbank.ca

1

1974

Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram

10

Star Motors of Ottawa 400 W Hunt Club Rd. Ottawa, ON K2E 1B2 mercedes-benz-starmotors.ca

1

1957

Star Motor’s Mercedes-Benz

10

Sterling Ford 1425 Ogilvie Rd. Ottawa, ON K1J 7P3 sterlingford.ca

1

N/A

Ford

10

Jim Tubman Ottawa Chevrolet 1770 Bank St. S Ottawa, ON K1V 7Y6 tubmanchev.com

1

1964

Chevrolet

10

Jim Keay Ford 1438 Youville Dr. Ottawa, ON K1C 2X8 jimkeayford.com

1

1982

Jim Keay Ford, Jim Keay Lincoln

*WND= would not disclose. N/A= Not available.

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Know who you’re hiring

Protect your business.

Protect your people.

Choose Commissionaires for your fingerprinting and background screening needs. needfingerprints.com *These companies did not respond to this year’s survey in time for publication. This information is from previous years. WND = Would not disclose

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1 2

No. of local employees

SECURITY PERSONNEL FIRMS (RANKED BY NUMBER OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES)

No. of local contract staff

No. of local offices/ No. of national offices/ Year est. in Ottawa

Commissionaires Ottawa 24 Colonnade Rd. Ottawa, ON K2E 7J6 613-231-6462 commissionaires.ca

3

Securitas Canada

4

GardaWorld

5

TOERSA Security Inc.

6

Allied Universal

6

Signal 88 Security

500-1335 Carling Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Z 8N8 613-745-7554 securitas.ca 2250 Gladwin Cr. Ottawa, ON K1G 3V4 613-563-0685 garda.com B3-2212 Gladwin Cres.

Ottawa, ON K1B 5N1 613-695-9371 toersa.com 201-720 Belfast Rd. Ottawa, ON K1G 0Z5 888-717-4447 ausecurity.ca 501-1390 Prince of Wales Dr. Ottawa, ON K2A4E4 613-801-3466 signal88.com

Major clients

Services offered Background screening (criminal, credit, education, social media), fingerprinting, workplace investigations, contractor security escort, non-core policing, threat risk assessments, mobile alarm response, integrated security solutions

Michel Charron, CEO

CAF/DND, RCMP, Commercial, tech/IT, industrial, governments, embassies, construction, long-term care, healthcare, homeless/victim shelters, special events/ festivals, VIP security

3,650

0

3 1 1939

2,017

2017

1 3 1994

Robin St. Martin, President

WND

Security guards, concierge services, mobile patrols, alarm response, private investigations.

1,500 1

0

1 24 1979

Pierre Belair

Government, Crown corporations, retail, events, education, high tech, logistics

Specialized guarding, mobile security, alarm response, technology solutions, remote video monitoring, inspections, consulting, investigation services.

1,200

900

1 40 2002

Andrew Wilkinson, Regional Director

Health care, retail, educational, mining

Business solutions and security services.

1,080

850

1 0 2008

Chris Ibey, President and CEO

Canada Heritage, NCC, Ottawa Police Services, Parliamentary Protective Services, Bluesfest, Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival, Escapade Music Festival, Pomerleau Construction, PCL Construction, EQ Homes, TD Place, Canadian Tire.

Event security, mobile patrols, alarm response, construction/site security, parking enforcement, concierge security, close protection services.

600 1

WND

1 22 1997

Aaron Hazelwood

Banks, government organizations, commercial properties, manufacturing, energy

Full service: risk consulting, systems integration, security products, onsite and mobile security personnel, remote video monitoring.

Andrew Ralph

Property managers (condominiums, apartments, construction and commercial properties), healthcare, auto industry, insurance, armed and finacial security services

Mobile patrols, guard services, parking enforcement, armed transit, construction, condominium, apartments, hotels, dealerships, retail, emergency, events, security, audits, CCTV, alarm response, COVID screening

Iron Horse Security & Investigations 884 Churchill Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Z 5H2 613-228-2813 ironhorsesecurity.com

Key local executive(s)

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1 12 2015

20

Harris Security Agency

SECURITY TECHNOLOGY FIRMS

1140-2720 Queensview Dr. (RANKED BY NUMBER2OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES) James Harris, 75 15 2 WND Ottawa, ON K2B 1A5 President and CEO 2002 613-726-6713 harrissecurity.ca Company/Address No. of local No. of local No. of local offices/ Key local executive(s) WND = Would not disclose 1 Did not repond to this year's survey in time for publication. Thiscontract informationstaff is from previous years. offices Phone/Fax/Web employees national Year est. in Ottawa

THE LIST 2 1

240

FCi (Fleming Communications Inc.)

101-920 Belfast Rd. Ottawa, ON K1G 0Z6 613-244-6770 Company/Address fci.ca Phone/Fax/Web

31 4 2

ComNet Networks and Security Inc. 2191 Thurston Dr. Solink

4 3

Convergint Technologies Ltd. ComNet Networks and Security Inc.

Ottawa, K1GRd. 6C9 201-390 ON March 613-247-7778 Kanata, ON K2K 0G7 com-net.ca 1-844-635-7305 solink.com Armstrong Monitoring 215 Colonnade S. FCi (Fleming Rd. Communications Inc.) Ottawa, ON K2ERd. 7K3 101-920 Belfast 613-225-9531 Ottawa, ON K1G 0Z6 613-244-6770 armstrongmonitoring.com fci.ca 2170 Thurston Dr. Dr. 2191 Thurston Ottawa, ON K1G K1G 6C9 5A7 Ottawa, ON 613-526-4224 613-247-7778 convergint.com com-net.ca

4 6

Armstrong Monitoring 215 Rd.Security S. 360Colonnade Advanced Corp.

Ottawa, K2ERd. 7K3 106-720 ON Belfast 613-225-9531 Ottawa, ON K1G 0Z5 armstrongmonitoring.com 360asc.com

4 7

Convergint Technologies Ltd. Zodiac Light Dr. Waves Inc. 2170 Thurston 1000 OldON Montreal Rd. Ottawa, K1G 5A7 Orléans, ON K4A 3N3 613-526-4224 1-888-845-0107 convergint.com zlwinc.com Cimtel Inc. / Wireless RNA 360 Advanced Security Corp.

Technology Inc. 106-720 BelfastDr. Rd. 120-21 Antares Ottawa, ON K1G 0Z5 Ottawa, ON K2E 7T8 360asc.com 613-727-8340 cimtel-ottawa.com Zodiac Light Waves Inc. Henderson Security 1000 Old Montreal Rd. 356 Woodroffe Ave. Orléans, ON K4A 3N3 Ottawa, ON K2A 3V6 1-888-845-0107 613-728-6467 zlwinc.com hendersonsecurity.com Cimtel Inc. / Wireless RNA Raytec Systems Technology Inc. Inc. 800-300 Terry Dr. Fox Drive, 120-21 Antares Ottawa, ON ON K2E K2K 7T8 0E3 Ottawa, 613-270-9990 613-727-8340 rayteccctv.com cimtel-ottawa.com Red Flag Security Henderson Security 207 Bayswater 356 Woodroffe Ave. Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Y Ottawa, ON K2A2G5 3V6 613-799-1188 613-728-6467 redflagsecurity.ca hendersonsecurity.com

6 8 7 8 8 10

11 8

Major clients

Services offered

Mike Matta, CEO 2009

Tim Hortons, Moxie's Classic Grill, Five Guys, JYSK, Canadian Tire, Domino's Pizza

Solink's video surveillance software connects your security camera footage with your POS data and creates a dashboard of analytics and searchable moments.

Solink

201-390 March Rd. Kanata, ON K2K 0G7 1-844-635-7305 solink.com

SECURITY TECHNOLOGY FIRMS 10

1 1

(RANKED BY NUMBER OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES)

Red Flag Security

Commercial security integrator with electronic security solutions; access control; video surveillance; intercom; intrusion detection, 24hr ULC alarm monitoring.

Services offered Converged networks (IoT) and security systems integration (design, engineering, Solink's video surveillance software integration, project andcamera infrastructure connects your security footage management, with your POStraining, data andmaintenance, creates a technical dashboardsupport). of analytics and searchable moments.

145 No. of local employees

0 No. of local contract staff

1 1 No. of local offices/ national offices

John Saull Mike Fleming 1995 Key local executive(s) Year est. in Ottawa

Healthcare, government, technology, private sector, financial institutions Major clients

65 240

20 10

1 51 1

Kevin Wolfe, President 2000 Mike Matta, CEO 2009

Clients and partnerships rapidly Tim Hortons, scaling acrossMoxie's CanadaClassic Grill, Five Guys, JYSK, Canadian Tire, Domino's Pizza

60 145

0 0

1 41 1

Joanne Johnson John Saull 1981 Mike Fleming 1995

Military, commercial, industrial, Healthcare, government, municipal technology, private sector, financial institutions

1

0 20

11 14 5

James Ellingson Kevin Wolfe, President 2000

60 18 1

0 3

1 41 1

Joanne Johnson Steve Martin, Partner 1981

60 1 17

0 35

1 1 14 2

James Ellingson Hesam Mahdavi Mehdi Mahdavi 1997

3 WND

1 WND 1 WND

Joseph Norris,Partner Steve Martin, President

17 10

35 WND

1 WND 2 WND

Hesam Mahdavi Mehdi Mahdavi Troy Brake, President 1997

10 7

WND 0

WND 1 WND 2

Joseph Norris, Amanda Redway President Mike Jamieson 2009

Government of Canada, RCMP, Cannabis Industry, International Commercial and Healthcare Olympic business Committee, in Ontario Port of Vancouver, US Government, Oil Rigs, Mining, Distilleries

Advance Care Call Systems, Intelligent LEDNurse lighting for security,IP CCTV, Accesshazardous Control, Door Security & Wisurveillance, area, and Fi systems.applications. industrial

5 10

WND WND

WND WND WND

George Fahd, Director Troy Brake, President 2009

Residential; commercial; smallWND to-midsize businesses

Residential security; commercial security; Alarm surveillance; access control; medicaland emergency; video surveillance; wiring intercom systems; access control; fire monitoring.

Amanda Redway Mike Jamieson 2009

Government of Canada, RCMP, Cannabis Industry, International Olympic Committee, Port of Vancouver, US Government, Oil Rigs, Mining, Distilleries

Intelligent LED lighting for security, surveillance, hazardous and2024 BOOK OFarea, LISTS industrial applications.

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1

18 10

1 Raytec Inc.to this year's survey in time for publication. This information is from previous years.

WND = Would not disclose Systems Did not repond 800-300 Terry Fox Drive, 1 7 0 Ottawa, ON K2K 0E3 OTTAWA BUSINESS JOURNAL obj.ca 2 613-270-9990 rayteccctv.com

10

Security guard training including: Use of force, private investigations and first aid/CPR training

Military, federal, provincial, and municipal governments, data centre, financial, healthcare, Clients and partnerships rapidly education, oil and gas, scaling across Canada transportation, utilities, private enterprise.

Municipal, transit, federal and provincial governments, law Military, commercial, industrial, enforcement, museums, municipal healthcare and long-term care, colleges and universities, commercial facilities Military, federal, provincial, and municipal governments, data SNC Lavalin, Federal centre, financial, healthcare, Government, Riverstone, education, oil and gas, Claridge Homes, Lamarche transportation, utilities, private Electric Inc., Responsive Homes, enterprise.

Ashcraft, OMNI Health Care, Municipal, transit, federal and provincial governments, law enforcement,and museums, Commercial Healthcare healthcare long-term care, business in and Ontario colleges and universities, commercial facilities SNC Lavalin, Federal Government, Riverstone, Claridge Homes, Lamarche WND Inc., Responsive Homes, Electric Ashcraft, OMNI Health Care,

Commercial security integrator withand Gas detection systems, callibration electronic security solutions; access repair services. control; video surveillance; intercom; intrusion detection, 24hr ULC alarm monitoring.

Integrated security solutions for Converged networks (IoT) andclients, security government and commercial systemsdesign/audits, integration (design, engineering, system sales, installation, integration, project and infrastructure access control, CCTV, intrusion, management, training, maintenance, biometrics, visitor management, alarm technical support). monitoring.

Supply, installation, design and service, Gas systems, callibration and carddetection access, CCTV, turnstiles and barrier repair gates, services. intrusion detection systems and monitoring, cloud-based managed and hosted solutions Integrated security solutions for government and commercial clients, Cybersecurity, Network Security, wireless systemcall design/audits, installation, nurse system, Wi-Fisales, design, access control, CCTV, intrusion, deployment and troubleshooting, biometrics, visitor management, alarm managed services, camera and access monitoring. control, phone service.

Supply, installation, design and service, card access, CCTV, turnstiles and barrier Advance Care Nurse Call Systems, IP gates, Access intrusion detection systems and CCTV, Control, Door Security & Wimonitoring, cloud-based managed and Fi systems. hosted solutions Cybersecurity, Network Security, wireless nurse call system, Wi-Fi design, security; Residential security; commercial deployment and troubleshooting, medical emergency; video surveillance; managed services, access cameracontrol; and access intercom systems; fire control, phone service. monitoring.

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1

760 Belfast Rd, Ottawa, ON K1G 6M8 613-749-7557 carefor.ca/

2 3

GEM Health Care Services

4

VHA Health and Home Support

5

Spark Lifecare

6

ComForCare Home Care

8

1206-751 Parkdale Ave Ottawa, ON K1Z 1G3 613-369-5100 affinityhealth.ca

304-383 Parkdale Ave. Ottawa, ON K1Y 4R4 613-761-7474 / 613-761-7738 gemhealthcare.com

250 City Centre Ave Ottawa, ON K1R 6K7 613-238-8420 / 613-238-1306 vhaottawa.ca 10 Florence St Ottawa, ON K2P 0W7 613-290-9709 sparkcares.ca 202-1673 Carling Ave Ottawa, ON K2A 0Y2 613-792-3663

100-1701 Woodward Dr. Ottawa, ON K2C 0R4 613-236-3639 / 6132367302 cnro.ca

Ownership / franchisor / operator

Year established in Ottawa

Key local executive(s)

Services offered

1,400

WND WND

1897

Steve Perry

Home care, community support services, retirement residences

400

WND WND

1994

Enza Torchia

Homecare, housekeeping, nursing care, and grocery delivery. Other services can be managed on a case-by-case basis.

370

GEM Health Care Services WND

1994

Gavin Schnobb Gaye Moffett

Nursing & wound care, personal support, home support, client companionship/sitter.

300

WND WND

1955

Valerie Bishop de Young

Specializing in in-home care for frail seniors and adults with complex care needs. Services include personal care, attendant service, light housekeeping, in your home and in supportive housing with 24/7 supports.

180

WND WND

2012

Bradley Bezan

Care, case management, nursing, psychology, psychotherapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech therapy, massage therapy, behaviour therapy, horticulture therapy, social work.

130

WND WND

2016

Sadiq Alwani

PSW Staffing solutions, companionship at facility and home, personal care, dementia Care, respite care, meal prep, laundry, homemaking, 24 hour care, companion assistance to appointments

100

WND WND

1911

Heather Camrass

Personal support, nursing care for adult and paediatric clients, dementia care, companion care, shift nursing, facility relief staffing, footcare.

75 1

WND WND

2007

Jeannie Mathews

Seniors on Site is a non-medical home care agency providing assistance to seniors whether it be in their own home, retirement residence, or long-term care facility.

70

WND WND

2004

Carol Seaby

Palliative care, elder care, pediatric care, education provider, registered nurses & registered practical nurses, personal support workers.

40

WND WND

2005

Lillian LizdekCepalo

24 hour care, interactive care, Alzheimer's disease and dementia care, end of life and palliative care, personal care, respite care, senior body, senior mind, seniors care, transition, transportation services.

35 1

WND WND

2011

Kelly Dumas

Transportation, meals on wheels, adult day program, caregiver support, home care services, friendly visiting, respite, social programs, foot care.

32 1

WND WND

2020

Judith Nassuna

Personal care, companionship, meal plans and prep, home support, 24/7 live-in care, overnight care, post hospitalization, respite care.

30 1

WND WND

2016

Rose Caddy

Nursing services, personal support, home making, housekeeping, attendant care, foot care (podortho), staffing agency.

15 1

WND WND

2021

Love Sarfo

Dementia care, home health, personal care, transportation, surgery recovery care.

15

WND WND

2016

Kumar Saha

We provide in-home care for seniors and those with disabilities, aiding daily activities, meal prep, errands, companionship, palliative, and personalized dementia care.

11

WND WND

2020

Simon Anilouse

Personal Support worker / Nursing services.

5

WND WND

2007

Anne Côté, Manager

Staffing for in home care, private care, long term care, retirement and hospitals. sitters/ companions, escorts, home care workers, personal support workers, nursing staff.

5

WND WND

2007

Debbie Abfalter, Owner

Personal support, companionship, nursing care, transportation, cleaning, end of life care/ doulas on staff, therapy companionship/service dog available with handler.

1

WND WND

2011

Marianna Zurawski

Personal Support Care, Companion care, Palliative care and 24/7 care available, and much more.

Seniors on Site

304-1300 Carling Ave Ottawa, ON K1Z 7L2 613-422-7676

9 10

Comfort Keepers

217-1419 Carling Ave Ottawa, ON K1Z 7L6 613-792-1167 athomehospice.com

4019 Carling Ave Kanata, ON K2K 2A3 613-672-1888 comfortkeepers.ca/ottawa

Rural Ottawa South Support Services

1128 Mill St Manotick, ON K4M 1A4 613-692-4697.

12

Just Like Family Home Care - Ottawa

13

ROCAN Home and Healthcare Services

14

Love By Your Side

14

My Place Home Care

16

Beingcare Healthcare

17

Alternacare

17

Seniors Solution

19

No. of local employees

Community Nursing Registry of Ottawa

At-Home Hospice

11

(RANKED BY NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES)

Carefor Health & Community Services

Affinity Health - Ottawa

7

IN-HOME CARE PROVIDERS

555 Legget Dr Kanata, ON K2K 2X3 613-435-5558

105 - 2500 St. Laurent Blvd Ottawa, ON K1H 1B1 (613) 219-8833 29 Bearman St Ottawa, ON K2G 7B4 613-491-2460

129 Shepody Circle Ottawa, ON K1T 4H9 613-686-6366 myplacehomecare.ca 1386 Sault St Ottawa, ON K1E 1G9 613-714-6189 beingcare.ca

275 Slater St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5H9 613-866-0775 alternacare.ca 4435 Bank Street Ottawa, ON K1T 3W5 613-592-1250 seniors-solution.com

Living with Care - Companionship & Caregiver Services 29 Manchester St. Stittsville, ON K2S 0R9 613-293-4960 livingwithcareottawa.com

WND = Would not disclose

1

Did not repond to this year's survey in time for publication. This information is from previous years.

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THE LIST

2023 FORTY UNDER 40 (LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

Hani Al Anid, 38

Jacqueline Bonisteel, 38

SENIOR DIRECTOR, NUCLEAR AND ENVIRONMENT CALIAN

PARTNER CORPORATE IMMIGRATION LAW FIRM

ACHIEVEMENT Establishing the Calian nuclear team as a leader in the emerging small modular reactor industry, and supporting new nuclear build projects across Canada to meet net-zero 2050 emission targets.

INFLUENCE My parents (both high school teachers) gave me the resources to succeed and the space to allow me to figure out what success meant to me.

Elizabeth Audette-Bourdeau, 30

Jesse Card, 39

FOUNDER AND CEO WELBI

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR YOUTH OTTAWA

INFLUENCE My family. They have always been there for me, supporting me through the ups and downs and constantly encouraging me to push my limits.

INFLUENCE My late mother, Susan, taught me to show compassion and I observed her glide through life without stressing over the small stuff. My father lit my passion for business and is still a mentor.

My wife, Jessica, can always steer me back to a balanced approach.

Jessica Barrow, 36

Michèle Corriveau, 37

PARTNER PERLEY-ROBERTSON, HILL & MCDOUGALL LLP

CHIROPRACTOR AND TECHNICAL LEAD CURAVITA HEALTH GROUP

INFLUENCE My biggest influence has been the women in law who have mentored me, championed me, shaped the nature of my practice and demonstrated that anything is possible.

INFLUENCE I had a great chiropractor growing up. How he cared for others and his role in health care made a lot of sense to me. I continue to be inspired by my team and colleagues every day.

Ginger Bertrand, 39

Derick Cotnam, 36

PRESIDENT GAB GROUP INC.

CEO MY CATERING GROUP

ACHIEVEMENT Founded a boutique entertainment PR firm that transitioned into one of Canada's leading entertainment agencies and talent management firms. Accomplishing this with an all-female team.

ACHIEVEMENT Coming out of COVID in a staffing crisis, getting several contracts and growing the business to over $4 million in annual revenue within a six-month period, which was four times our annual revenue pre-pandemic.

Pavel Bogdanov, 38 CEO OTTAWA FLOWERS INC. ACHIEVEMENT Scaled to become the largest retail florist in Ontario.

INFLUENCE My parents, who came to Canada with zero and built the North American dream.

Bradley Crepeau, 35 CEO FOOD CYCLE SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENT Founded Food Cycle Science at $0 in revenue and grew the business to employ nearly 50 FTE with tens of millions of dollars in profitable revenue. We have innovated new products that hold international patents and are sold in over 20 countries.

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Brendan Du Vall, 39

Natasha Hope Morano, 37

SENIOR DIRECTOR TICKET SALES AND SERVICE OTTAWA SENATORS HOCKEY CLUB

PRESIDENT MHM CONNECT

ACHIEVEMENT Leading our team to the highest attendance increase in the NHL this past season and celebrating 15 sold-out games. Seeing the building packed again was electric.

Andre Fernandez, 37

Adel Jawhary, 30

CO-CEO INVERT

CEO RYDEL ROOFING & SIDING

ACHIEVEMENT Raised over $35 million in a poor macroeconomic environment, doubled revenue over the last year, and hired over 30 employees.

OBSTACLE Initially, launching the company with limited experience and financial backing. As we expanded, our challenges shifted to scalability, compounded by labour shortages and financial pressures. Our most significant challenge was the decision to franchise.

INFLUENCE My father taught me that anything is possible if you put your mind to it.

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OBSTACLE During the pandemic, I had to keep the lights on at NHM Connect but also care and advocate for my parents who were in a different city and undergoing treatment for cancer.

Dave Hale, 34

Victoria La Valle, 32

FOUNDER AND CEO CRAFT&CREW

VICE-PRESIDENT CITYSCAPE

ACHIEVEMENT In 2010, I took a school project from Algonquin College and turned it into a $12-million, 50-plus person global agency network with a near-perfect employee net promoter score.

ACHIEVEMENT Growing Cityscape with my family and evolving the industry.

Julia Heintzman, 39

Gregory Macdonald, 32

SENIOR ASSOCIATE LAWYER SOLOWAY WRIGHT LLP

FOUNDER AND CEO BATHORIUM

OBSTACLE To continue growing my practice while also being a mother of two young children, I have become more efficient and intentional with my time.

ACHIEVEMENT Created a movement in the industry highlighting the importance of clean ingredients and decadent bath rituals. Averaging $4 million in annual revenue, employing 30 team members and expanding to a national rollout.

Matthew Henley, 38

Jessie McAllister, 39

COO AI TALOS

DENTIST AND OWNER MCALLISTER DENTISTRY

ACHIEVEMENT Co-founded a passion project focused on identifying early-stage cancer and built a global sales pipeline.

INFLUENCE My grandfather was a surgeon at the Civic Hospital for almost 50 years. He inspired me to pursue my passion for health care and give back to my community.

INFLUENCE My late husband supported me through my education and encouraged my professional aspirations.

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Connor McGarry, 36

Ryan Peatt, 39

DIRECTOR WELCH CAPITAL PARTNERS INC.

CEO AND CO-FOUNDER PROXI.ID

INFLUENCE My dad showed me what it means to balance work and family. In addition, he has 100 per cent supported every life decision I have made. Knowing that I have that support behind me has given me the confidence to make difficult decisions.

OBSTACLE Founding and bootstrapping Proxi.id early in the pandemic with two young children at home (and doing online learning!), building the company and selling to some large brands without the product even being launched.

Nitin Mehra, 38

Devan Pennell, 37

CHEF AND CO-OWNER EAST INDIA COMPANY

PRINCIPAL LKC CONSULTING

ACHIEVEMENT Successfully launching a line of home cooking sauces across Canada.

ACHIEVEMENT Taking a company public on the TSX as CFO. Raising $99 million in equity financing to support operational growth and expansion as part of the go-public transaction.

INFLUENCE My brother, Anish, provided guidance and support tempered with understanding one’s own limitations and the strengths in working as a team.

Emma Mohns, 34 SENIOR LEGAL COUNSEL, CORPORATE KINAXIS

Kelly Rusk, 39 PRESIDENT KELLY RUSK CONSULTING INC.

INFLUENCE Growing up, I had no shortage of smart, driven, and hardworking women around me. My mom and aunts showed me what it was to love what you do and take pride in your career.

OBSTACLE Six months into starting my business, I learned I was pregnant — the day before a global pandemic was declared. My two largest clients went on hold. I was able to maintain my business and, days before my due date, I won a government contract.

Michael Nelson, 35

Marc Sauvé, 39

FOUNDER AND CEO TACTIQL INC.

MANAGING PARTNER DAVID | SAUVÉ LLP

INFLUENCE My dad, Rob Nelson, a veteran, led by example with his character, work ethic and passion for having an impact on his community.

INFLUENCE My father dropped out of high school at 16 to help his family financially. My mother couldn't afford to go to college. We came from a humble community but my parents showed me that anything is possible if you work hard, you're honest and you try your best every single day.

Joseph Pamic, 34

Todd Shannon, 38

VICE-PRESIDENT CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT POWER-TEK GROUP

PARTNER AND CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER HUMANCONTACT INC.

ACHIEVEMENT Grew the business threefold, organically and through three strategic acquisitions over the past three years.

OBSTACLE Being a company with a stake in the live event business during the COVID pandemic. Pivoted to virtual and 3D production, which led to an immersive content platform called Merjj.

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2023 FORTY UNDER 40 (LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

Mahima Sharma, 36

Rohan Thakar, 39

VICE-PRESIDENT INNOVATION, ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE POLICY FOREST PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

MANAGING PARTNER BRASH INC.

OBSTACLE As a female in a male-dominated industry, I have worked hard to gain the trust of senior-level executives and technical experts. I have to be assertive, confident and demonstrate a solid technical understanding.

Candice Shaw, 37 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THE OTTAWA RAPE CRISIS CENTRE (ORCC) INFLUENCE The women, elders, survivors and families who have pressed forward in pursuit of justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people and my parents who taught me the art of seeing challenges as untapped opportunity.

Tristan Smyth, 31 CHIEF IMPACT AND STRATEGY OFFICER WARSHIELD INFLUENCE My colleague Max FineDay and I have run several companies together. Our business partnership has helped me identify and hone my skills and created room for big hairy ideas to grow.

Kyle Soutar, 36 FOUNDER AND CFO BETTER GROUP INFLUENCE A combination of naysayers and my supportive family and friends. While the naysayers' doubts fuel my determination to excel, my family and friends provide unwavering support.

Thomas Triplet, 39 HEAD OF AI AND ENGINEERING BLUWAVE~AI ACHIEVEMENT Directed the development of the BluePlanet analytics and enterprise product lines at Ciena, leading a global team focused on delivering AI-based solutions for intelligent management telecommunication networks. Joined BluWave-ai as head of engineering, leveraging AI to accelerate the transition to renewable energies.

Adam Van Cleeff, 37 VICE-PRESIDENT CUSTOMER SUCCESS FULLSCRIPT ACHIEVEMENT Helped navigate Fullscript from 35 people and millions in revenue to now over 700 people and hundreds of millions in revenue.

OBSTACLE Taking a decades-old distribution company and merging it with a fast-growing tech company.

Mary Yazdani, 38 FOUNDER AND CEO GENESISLINK CONSULTING SERVICES OBSTACLE Balancing the demands of establishing and growing Genesislink Consulting with my family and personal responsibilities. In addition, navigating government regulations and delays in processing applications presented challenges.

Patrick Taillefer, 34

Piriya Yoganathan, 33

PRESIDENT TAILLEFER PLUMBING & HEATING INC.

HEAD, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL'S BIOTHERAPEUTICS MANUFACTURING CENTRE

ACHIEVEMENT The launch of a fabrication shop with modern technologies that permit us to extend our services.

OBSTACLE Managing through COVID and overcoming shortages of raw material and labour.

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OBSTACLE Helped over 60 different clients bootstrap their companies and bring their products and software to market while also developing our own in-house technologies.

ACHIEVEMENT Working alongside a team to support the first made-in-Canada CAR-T therapy trial.

OBSTACLE Innovative communication and supply chain approaches helped us overcome COVID-19 pandemic-related challenges.

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Businesswoman of the Year Lydia Di Francesco talks ‘echo-pandemic’ and workplace wellness

BY SARAH MACFARLANE

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ydia Di Francesco is a workplace wellness specialist and recipient of the Women’s Business Network’s Businesswoman of the Year award for 2023. The CEO of Fit + Healthy 365, Di Francesco supports workplaces and leaders in building wellness. OBJ’s Sarah MacFarlane sat down with Di Francesco to discuss the post-pandemic workplace and what wellness at work can mean. This is an edited transcript of that conversation.

As a workplace wellness specialist, how did you see the pandemic impacting the work you do?

I’ve been working in the wellness industry for 11 years and there's been a lot of change over the years. But the impact the pandemic had, in my view, is that it accelerated the conversation we have around wellness in the workplace.

I think, from my perspective and in my experience, the conversation was there in whispers and people were talking about it and a lot of businesses had been doing good things on the wellness front for years. It was slowly becoming more and more of a thing that businesses were paying attention to.

But really what I’ve seen is that the pandemic accelerated the conversation and brought it to the forefront, which I think is actually a good thing. As bad as the pandemic was, it brought about an opportunity for us to have these discussions. And to have them more seriously, with not just the fluffiness of what “wellness” used to be, but about the very serious impacts that people are having in their lives in terms of mental health challenges, stress and burnout.

There’s a lot of burnout happening these days. I think organizations and businesses have really woken up to the fact that wellness is a really important topic in any organization.

What is the current state of workplace wellness?

Unfortunately, a lot of people are not in a good place. I do like to put a positive lens on things, but let’s start before the pandemic.

In my view, we were in or heading towards a stress epidemic before the pandemic even happened. Stress levels were at an all-time high. Then, through the pandemic, they got even higher.

Unfortunately, what we’ve seen is that stress levels and the pace at which people are working have not decreased.

So, a lot of people are talking about, “we just want to go back to normal.”

Well, the “normal” wasn’t working. The “normal” was broken. I don’t know that we’ve gotten back to what it used to be and I don’t think it can or even should. But I think, in a lot of ways, people are still struggling.

The good piece of that is, from a mental health stigma perspective, some of the stigma has broken down. We are talking about mental health now in a way we didn’t before and a lot of people are being very open about their mental

health struggles, so that’s very positive. It’s not great that there are more people with struggles, but it is good that more people are talking about it.

In terms of organizations, the positive is that they’re acknowledging that people are stressed or burned out or heading toward that and they’re trying to do something about it.

The trajectory that we’re on isn’t great, but I do believe it can be slowed down and changed and shifted so that we’re not heading into this really bad place as a society in terms of our collective wellness.

What are the major issues coming out of the pandemic that are facing the modern workplace?

Well, the thing is, it's not even solely related to the pandemic anymore. But people have a lot going on in their personal lives, so there’s just a lot of general struggles people are having.

If we look at what’s happening in the economy these days, the dollar doesn’t go as far. People are struggling to make ends meet, grocery costs are higher, it’s harder for younger people to buy housing … People are having financial troubles and these are big, stressful issues in our lives.

Then we have workplaces that are trying to run at more than 100 per cent capacity with less than 100 per cent of bandwidth. People are being asked to do more with less in terms of energy, resources, time, finances, or they’re just understaffed.

The labour issues we’re seeing in certain industries are causing labour shortages where there’s too much work and not enough people. So, there are a lot of systemic issues happening within companies that are affecting people’s health and wellness That’s where I’m hoping to change the conversation, move the needle, and work with organizations that realize they have a role to play.

Within wellness, within burnout prevention, there is a shared responsibility. There’s a responsibility of individuals to help themselves and develop healthy habits, but there’s also a responsibility of leaders to make sure that they’re building a culture of wellness within their team. There’s also an organizational role to play from an organization’s wellness culture perspective to look at.

How wellness is integrated within all aspects of the organization is not just one-off initiatives and “Wellness Wednesdays” and things like that. Each of these entities has a role to play in building better wellness for individuals working in the organization.

I’m shifting to work more on the leadership and organizational side. The individual side is great and individuals absolutely have a role to play and that’s been a lot of the focus. But a lot of what I’m hearing is, “It’s hard to do the things I need to do to keep myself well when I have so much work,” or, “There are too many unrealistic expectations, I can’t do it all, there aren’t enough hours in the day,” or environments where people feel underappreciated or don't understand their value within the organization.

These are risk factors for burnout. So we need organizations to understand their role and then work with

me or with their team to address these concerns and the systemic issues that are there. Even in terms of creating boundaries for themselves and for their colleagues and their team, these are important things for them to be looking at.

With the rise of remote and hybrid workplaces, as well as more flexible work conditions, there have been debates about the use of sick days. What kind of issues can this raise for wellness?

I do think — and it’s something I mention often in workshops — that workplace flexibility doesn’t mean more working. It sounds obvious, and I always say it laughing.

But in practice, you see it happen where people are working more flexibly, so maybe they take time off during the day and work late. But if you were to look at the whole amount of time they’re working, it’s still overtime.

Or they could be working at 100 per cent when they might not be. It’s easy — the computer is right there and it’s easy to just log in. You don’t have to be dressed or commute.

So even with people working sick, and it does happen, that’s where it’s two-pronged. Individuals need to keep track of their own selves and try not to be working more than they should be. But if the workload is relentless, they feel they can’t stop. So leaders need to also be facilitating discussion about flexibility and workload, what it means, and what expectations there are around communication and response time.

In some cases, workplaces use the phrase that “we’re like a big, happy family.”

Can workplaces be too close or be unprofessional?

In those cases, that’s up to individuals about how they are behaving in a non-workplace environment with workplace colleagues. The kinds of companies that have “family” culture will likely attract the right people who are looking for that kind of culture and hopefully they’re clear in their hiring that that’s the culture.

Where I see potential problems would be if workplace fun activities outside of the office are mandatory or seen as part of work time. Conversations come up that, when it’s mandated fun, maybe people don’t really want to do that or they have other obligations. A lot of times, these activities revolve around alcohol and, since the pandemic, there are more people now that don’t drink for a whole variety of reasons. That can get uncomfortable and awkward and I think that’s where it gets dicey.

You need to be cautious of the going out, the fun activities. What are the activities? Are they focused on alcohol? Try to switch it up. If you’re using these interactions as employee engagement, consider having them during the work day as a work thing so people don’t feel obligated to be participating when they may have other obligations.

The issues are more around how mandatory it is.

Sometimes it’s unspoken mandatory where they say it isn’t, but the sense is that it kind of is. That’s where I see those issues coming into play.

If we can understand how important it is to maintain connection and a shared culture with each other in a postpandemic world, where is the line?

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TOP FEDERAL CONTRACTS

A selection of some of the largest government contracts, standing offers and supply arrangements awarded in 2022-23 to companies operating in Ottawa-Gatineau.

$106,288,431

Ship and Boat Propulsion Components Lockheed Martin Canada Inc. Department of National Defence

$98,010,564

Interior Fit-Up/Renovations EllisDon Corporation Public Works and Government Services Canada

$85,964,004

Marine Management BMT Fleet Technology Limited Department of National Defence

$46,502,629

Security Printing, Paper Documents (including bonds) Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited Foreign Affairs, Trade And Development (Department Of)

$40,638,512

Claims Administration/Processing (insurance plans) Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada Treasury Board of Canada

$38,508,517

Construction of Other Buildings TOFCON Construction Inc. Public Works and Government Services Canada

$29,999,999

Consulting Services Colliers Project Leaders Inc., Tiree Facility Solutions Inc. in joint venture Public Works and Government Services Canada

$29,999,999

Consulting Services Colliers Project Leaders Inc., Tiree Facility Solutions Inc. in joint venture Public Works and Government Services Canada

$29,999,999

$29,736,116

Architect/Engineer Services, Research and Development Facilities FRAMEWORK FSTII Design Partners JV Public Works and Government Services Canada

$28,000,000

Human Resource Services, Business Consulting/Change Management; Project Management Services Colliers Project Leaders Inc., Tiree Facility Solutions Inc. in joint venture Public Works and Government Services Canada

$25,030,113

Architect/Engineer Services Research and Development Facilities Architecture49 Inc., B+H ARCHITECTS CORP., in joint venture Public Works and Government Services Canada

$24,237,907

ADP Software Adobe Systems Canada Incorporated Employment and Social Development Canada

$22,600,000

Relocation Services Brookfield Global Relocation Services Limited Department of National Defence

$22,061,368

Educational Services, N.E.S. Calian Ltd. Department of National Defence

$21,385,350

$14,601,020

$20,005,149

$14,229,063

$19,516,579

$14,176,854

End-to-End Learning Services (Excludes COTS Training) Calian Ltd. Department of National Defence End-to-End Learning Services (Excludes COTS Training) Calian Ltd. Department of National Defence System Engineering Services Calian Ltd. Department of National Defence

$18,080,000

Security Printing, Paper Documents (including bonds) Canadian Bank Note Company, Ltd. Citizenship and Immigration Canada

$17,722,864

Construction of Other Buildings EBC inc.

Public Works and Government Services Canada

$17,608,790

Radar Equipment, Except Airborne DRS Technologies Canada Ltd. Department of National Defence

$16,500,000

Management advisory services Colliers Project Leaders Inc., Tiree Facility Solutions Inc. in joint venture Department of Public Works and Government Services (PSPC)

$16,500,000

Language Training Services Graybridge International Consulting Inc. Foreign Affairs, Trade And Development (Department Of)

Professional Services / Financial Analysis Colliers Project Leaders Inc., Tiree Facility Solutions Inc. in joint venture Public Works and Government Services Canada

$21,357,989

$14,918,740

Publications NAV CANADA Department of National Defence

Consulting Services Colliers Project Leaders Inc., Tiree Facility Solutions Inc. in joint venture Public Works and Government Services Canada

$21,252,375

$29,845,528

$20,250,731

Informatics Professional Services ADGA Group Consultants Inc. Department of National Defence

$20,204,771

Operation and Maintenance Services of a Technical/Scientific Facility Nasittuq Corporation Department of National Defence Translation Services Fox Translations Ltd. Ottawa Treasury Board of Canada

Budget Control Systems PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, ESIT Canada Enterprise Services Co. ESIT Canada Services aux Enterprises Cie., in joint venture Employment and Social Development Canada

$14,908,840

Cross-Cultural Training Graybridge International Consulting Inc. Foreign Affairs, Trade And Development (Department Of)

Communications Security Equipment and Components Raymond EMC Enclosures Ltd. Department of National Defence Informatics Professional Services S.I. SYSTEMS ULC Employment and Social Development Canada Informatics Professional Services PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Employment and Social Development Canada

$14,020,227

Informatics Professional Services Randstad Interim Inc Employment and Social Development Canada

$13,878,953

Informatics Professional Services T.E.S. Contract Services Inc. Employment and Social Development Canada

$13,800,000

Informatics Professional Services TPG Technology Consulting Ltd. Veterans Affairs Canada

$13,797,000

Information technology consultation services SYSTEMATIX SOLUTIONS TI INC/ SYSTEMATIX IT SOLUTIONS INC Department of Employment and Social Development (ESDC)

$13,626,640

Informatics Professional Services ADRM Technology Consulting Group Corp. and Randstad Interim Inc Employment and Social Development Canada

$13,585,710

Informatics Professional Services TEKSYSTEMS CANADA CORP./ SOCIÉTÉ TEKSYSTEMS CANADA Employment and Social Development Canada

$13,538,384

Informatics Professional Services S.I. SYSTEMS ULC Employment and Social Development Canada

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Top 48 federal vendors in the National Capital Region (net value of all contracts awarded in 2022-23)

Colliers Project Leaders Inc., Tiree Facility Solutions Inc.,

$188,914,386

2 Calian Ltd. 3 EllisDon Corporation 4 Lockheed Martin Canada Inc. 5 S.I. Systems ULC 6 BMT Fleet Technology Limited 7 Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited 8 IBM Canada Limited/IBM Canada LimiTée 9 MODIS Canada Inc. 10 Randstad Interim Inc 11 TPG Technology Consulting Ltd. 12 ADGA Group Consultants Inc. 13 Teksystems Canada Corp./Société Teksystems Canada 14 Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada 15 Veritaaq Technology House Inc. 16 Graybridge International Consulting Inc. 17 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 18 Tofcon Construction Inc. 19 Systematix Solutions TI Inc/Systematix Solutions TI Inc. 20 Framework FSTII Design Partners JV 21 Donna Cona Inc. 22 Babcock Canada Inc. 23 IBISKA Telecom Inc.

$114,612,454

1 in joint venture

$13,500,000

Professional Services / Financial Analysis CIMA CANADA INC., Comtech Group Inc., in joint venture Public Works and Government Services Canada

$13,474,380

Informatics Professional Services TPG Technology Consulting Ltd. Public Works and Government Services Canada

$13,428,607

Informatics Professional Services MODIS CANADA INC. Department of National Defence

$13,166,185

Fire Control Directors Twenty20 Insight Inc. Department of National Defence

$12,000,000

Telephone Services / Contact Centre Services Donna Cona Inc. Aboriginal Affairs & Northern Development Canada

$12,000,000

$11,149,700

Informatics Professional Services Calian Ltd. Department of National Defence

$11,142,927

Informatics Professional Services Randstad Interim Inc Citizenship and Immigration Canada

$11,007,574

Informatics Professional Services MINDWIRE SYSTEMS LTD. Department of National Defence

$10,979,961

Informatics Professional Services MODIS CANADA INC. Citizenship and Immigration Canada

$10,910,674

Construction of Other Buildings Pomerleau Inc. Public Works and Government Services Canada

$10,529,870

Informatics Professional Services Randstad Interim Inc Citizenship and Immigration Canada

$10,502,117

Informatics Professional Services MNP LLP Public Works and Government Services Canada

Informatics Professional Services IBM CANADA LIMITED/IBM CANADA LIMITÉE Department of National Defence

$11,976,793

$10,500,000

Informatics Professional Services Systematix Solutions TI Inc/ Systematix IT Solutions Inc Department of National Defence

$11,680,163

Informatics Professional Services IT/NET OTTAWA INC, KPMG LLP, in joint venture Department of National Defence

$11,500,000

Human Resource Services, Business Consulting/Change Management; Project Management Services Colliers Project Leaders Inc., Tiree Facility Solutions Inc. in joint venture Public Works and Government Services Canada

$11,299,743

Informatics Professional Services Cache Computer Consulting Corp.

Employment and Social Development Canada

Informatics Professional Services Xpera Risk Mitigation & Investigation LP Citizenship and Immigration Canada

$10,411,544

Informatics Professional Services Veritaaq Technology House Inc. Department of National Defence

$10,347,750

Miscellaneous Communications Services CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants Inc. Industry Canada

$10,130,737

Construction of Other Buildings EllisDon Corporation Public Works and Government Services Canada

$107,788,431 $86,474,494 $85,964,004 $65,456,846 $63,055,814 $61,424,412 $51,838,556 $49,843,881 $45,190,687 $43,026,070 $40,638,512 $40,411,972 $40,318,315 $38,583,050 $38,508,517 $36,239,879 $29,736,116 $29,527,832 $29,519,861 $28,219,506

24 in joint venture

Architecture49 Inc., Len Ward Architecture, INC.,

$25,938,452

25 IT/NET OTTAWA INC, KPMG LLP, in Joint Venture 26 NAV Canada 27 Adobe Systems Canada Incorporated 28 Brookfield Global Relocation Services Limited 29 Mindwire Systems Ltd. 30 CORADIX Technology Consulting Ltd. 31 Deloitte LLP

$24,346,349

32

CIMA Canada Inc., Dillon Consulting Limited/ Les Consultants Dillon Limitée, in joint venture

33 DRS Technologies Canada Ltd. 34 Promaxis Systems Inc. 35 Twenty20 Insight Inc. 36 ADRM Technology Consulting Group Corp 37 Dalian Enterprises Inc. 38 Raymond EMC Enclosures Ltd. PriceWaterHouseCoopers LLP, ESIT Canada Enterprise

$24,244,456 $24,237,907 $23,854,250 $23,642,739 $22,552,290 $22,312,798 $21,738,575 $18,457,775 $18,341,526 $18,119,002 $18,006,710 $16,412,295 $15,190,472

39 Services Co. ESIT Canada Services aux Entreprise CIE.,

$14,920,423

40 IPSS INC.

$14,313,088

41 Thales Canada, Defence and Security 42 T.E.S. Contract Services Inc. 43 PCL/ ED, a Joint Venture 44 Stantec 45 Cache Computer Consulting Corp.

46 MNP LLP 47 Cofomo Ottawa

$14,032,947

in joint venture

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$110,463,505

$13,978,953 $13,443,562 $12,740,880 $12,110,758 $12,000,000 $11,043,639 $10,500,000 BOOK OF LISTS 2024 77

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TOP CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

Source: City of Ottawa construction permits, January to November 2023. Note: City records do not name the contractor for all projects. Some contractor information and project descriptions are drawn from other publicly available sources.

Institutional 111 Wellington St. Interior/exterior alterations in a 6 storey government building (Parliament Centre Block - deep excavation & anchoring) PCL/ED, a joint venture $116,512,273 1075 March Rd. Construct a 1 storey fire station [Fire Station #45] MORLEY HOPPNER INC. $2,926,216

Apartment 388 Albert St. Construct a 23 and 29 storey apartment building on 3 levels of underground parking MAIN AND MAIN STREET MANAGEMENT $70,760,727 400 Albert St. Construct a 23 and 29 storey apartment building on 3 levels of underground parking MAIN AND MAIN STREET MANAGEMENT $70,760,727 156 Lyon St. Construct a 23 and 29 storey apartment building on 3 levels of underground parking MAIN AND MAIN STREET MANAGEMENT $70,760,727 160 Lyon St. Construct a 23 and 29 storey apartment building on 3 levels of underground parking MAIN AND MAIN STREET MANAGEMENT $70,760,727 280 Montgomery St. Structure only: Construct a 22 storey apartment building with 1 level of underground parking JBPA DEVELOPMENTS INC. $33,273,210 2 Montreal Rd. Structure only: Construct a 22 storey apartment building with 1 level of underground parking JBPA Developments Inc. $33,273,210

216 Murray St. Construct an 8 storey apartment building with 48 dwelling units, community drop-in and soup kitchen PBC DEVELOPMENT & CONSTRUCTION MGMT GROUP INC. $4,789,047 505 Branch St. Construct a 3 storey apartment building with 22 units (Block A) BECC CONSTRUCTION LTD $3,273,232

640 Corporal Priv.

Construct a 3 storey block of 12 rowhouses EQ HOMES $12,850,004 642 Corporal Priv.

Construct a 3 storey block of 12 rowhouses EQ HOMES $12,850,004

Retail

1200 Flycatcher Priv.

Construct a 3 storey block of 12 rowhouses EQ HOMES $12,850,004

4837 Albion Rd. Foundation only: Construct a 6 storey hotel and casino ELLISDON $23,902,882

1202 Flycatcher Priv.

Construct a 3 storey block of 12 rowhouses EQ HOMES $12,850,004

930 Carling Ave Foundation only: Construct a 1 storey parking garage PCL CONSTRUCTION CANADA INC $17,126,350

1204 Flycatcher Priv.

Construct a 3 storey block of 12 rowhouses EQ HOMES $12,850,004

20 Dunbar Crt. Construct a 3 storey apartment building (31 Units) MCDONALD BROS. CONSTRUCTION INC. $4,453,146

Rowhouse 630 Corporal Priv.

Construct a 3 storey block of 12 rowhouses EQ HOMES $12,850,004 632 Corporal Priv.

Construct a 3 storey block of 12 rowhouses EQ HOMES $12,850,004 634 Corporal Priv.

Construct a 3 storey block of 12 rowhouses EQ HOMES $12,850,004 636 Corporal Priv.

Construct a 3 storey block of 12 rowhouses EQ HOMES $12,850,004

1206 Flycatcher Priv.

Construct a 3 storey block of 12 rowhouses EQ HOMES $12,850,004 1208 Flycatcher Priv.

Construct a 3 storey block of 12 rowhouses EQ HOMES $12,850,004 1210 Flycatcher Priv.

Construct a 3 storey block of 12 rowhouses EQ HOMES $7,110,311 712 Doneraile Walk Construct a 3 storey block of 14 unit back to back rowhouses MINTO COMMUNITIES INC. $2,926,216 714 Doneraile Walk Construct a 3 storey block of 14 unit back to back rowhouses MINTO COMMUNITIES INC. $2,926,216 716 Doneraile Walk Construct a 3 storey block of 14 unit back to back rowhouses MINTO COMMUNITIES INC. $2,926,216

718 Doneraile Walk Construct a 3 storey block of 14 unit back to back rowhouses MINTO COMMUNITIES INC. $2,926,216 720 Doneraile Walk Construct a 3 storey block of 14 unit back to back rowhouses MINTO COMMUNITIES INC. $2,926,216 722 Doneraile Walk Construct a 3 storey block of 14 unit back to back rowhouses MINTO COMMUNITIES INC. $2,926,216 724 Doneraile Walk Construct a 3 storey block of 14 unit back to back rowhouses MINTO COMMUNITIES INC. $2,926,216 313 Raheen Crt. Construct a 3 storey block of 14 unit back to back rowhouses MINTO COMMUNITIES INC. $2,926,216 315 Raheen Crt. Construct a 3 storey block of 14 unit back to back rowhouses MINTO COMMUNITIES INC. $2,926,216 317 Raheen Crt. Construct a 3 storey block of 14 unit back to back rowhouses MINTO COMMUNITIES INC. $2,926,216 319 Raheen Crt. Construct a 3 storey block of 14 unit back to back rowhouses MINTO COMMUNITIES INC. $2,926,216 321 Raheen Crt. Construct a 3 storey block of 14 unit back to back rowhouses MINTO COMMUNITIES INC. $2,926,216 323 Raheen Crt. Construct a 3 storey block of 14 unit back to back rowhouses MINTO COMMUNITIES INC. $2,926,216 325 Raheen Crt. Construct a 3 storey block of 14 unit back to back rowhouses MINTO COMMUNITIES INC. $2,756,275 1001 Silhouette, Prive Construct a 3 storey 16 unit dwelling (Building 10) DCR PHOENIX DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LIMITED $2,756,275

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1003 Silhouette, Prive Construct a 3 storey 16 unit dwelling (Building 10) DCR PHOENIX DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LIMITED $2,756,275 1005 Silhouette, Prive Construct a 3 storey 16 unit dwelling (Building 10) DCR PHOENIX DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LIMITED $2,756,275 1007 Silhouette, Prive Construct a 3 storey 16 unit dwelling (Building 10) DCR PHOENIX DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LIMITED $2,756,275 1009 Silhouette, Prive Construct a 3 storey 16 unit dwelling (Building 10) DCR PHOENIX DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LIMITED $2,756,275 1011 Silhouette, Prive Construct a 3 storey 16 unit dwelling (Building 10) DCR PHOENIX DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LIMITED $2,756,275 1013 Silhouette, Prive Construct a 3 storey 16 unit dwelling (Building 10) DCR PHOENIX DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LIMITED $2,756,275 1015 Silhouette, Prive Construct a 3 storey 16 unit dwelling (Building 10) DCR PHOENIX DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LIMITED $2,756,275

Office 395 Terminal Ave. Interior alterations to an 8 storey office building MCI - MICUCCI CONTRACTING INC. $3,995,462

Industrial 3811 North Bowsville Rd. Construct a 1 storey maintenance building 4 AND 5 ARGUE CONSTRUCTION LTD $3,166,759 4120 Russell Rd. First time fit-up to a 1 storey industrial building 13288404 CANADA INC O/A VCL CONSTURCTION 2,926,260 obj.ca OTTAWA BUSINESS JOURNAL

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WHO MAKES WHAT – PROVINCIALLY FUNDED ORGANIZATIONS

(HIGHEST-PAID EMPLOYEES AT PROVINCIALLY-FUNDED ORGANIZATIONS IN OTTAWA. SOURCE: ONTARIO MINISTRY OF FINANCE)

Name

Employer

Job title

Salary paid

Taxable benefits

1

Cameron Love

The Ottawa Hospital

President / Président

$647,124

$16,569

2

Duncan Stewart

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Executive Vice President / Vice-président exécutif

$522,502

$10,240

3

David O Toole

Canadian Institute For Health Info

President and Chief Executive Officer

$466,285

$570

4

Bernard Jasmin

University Of Ottawa

Doyen(ne) / Dean

$443,142

$121

5

Bernard Leduc

Hôpital Montfort

Président directeur-général/President and chief executive officer

$437,699

$3,825

6

Thierry Mesana

The University of Ottawa Heart Institute

President / Président

$430,213

$884

7

Harmanjatinder Sekhon

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$414,330

$29

8

Joanne Bezzubetz

Royal Ottawa Health Care Group

President and Chief Executive Officer / Présidente et cheffe de la direction

$406,285

$18,038

9

Jacques Frémont

University Of Ottawa

Recteur(rice) / President

$399,616

$14,400

10

Virginia Roth

The Ottawa Hospital

Chief of Staff/Médecin-chef

$396,002

$11,500

11

Benoit-Antoine Bacon

Carleton University

President and Vice-Chancellor

$394,490

$8,480

$383,473

$11,461

12

Guy Chartrand

Bruyère Continuing Care

Président- directeur général / President and Chief Executive Officer

13

Stéphane Brutus

University Of Ottawa

Doyen(ne) / Dean

$369,620

$0

14

Christopher Milroy

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist/Pathologiste

$366,209

$1,189

15

Andrew Falconer

Queensway Carleton Hospital

President and Chief Executive Officer

$362,880

$2,032

16

Alfredo Walker

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist/Pathologiste

$360,084

$1,303

17

Pranesh Chakraborty

Children’s Hospital Of Eastern Ontario – Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre

Executive Director/Directeur exécutif

$360,019

$607

18

Denis Gravel

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist/Pathologiste

$357,961

$1,189

$357,486

$1,303

19

Charis Kepron

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist/Pathologiste

20

Steve Kanellakos

City Of Ottawa

City Manager

$357,113

$8,594

21

Dr. Shaun Mcguire

Bruyère Continuing Care

Médecin-chef / Chief of Staff

$352,269

$1,231

22

Ginette Starkell

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$352,216

$1,189

23

Shahidul Islam

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$351,480

$1,189

24

Kathleen Gartke

The Ottawa Hospital

Senior Medical Officer / Médecin principale

$343,723

$0

25

Fawaz Halwani

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$340,357

$29

26

Terence Moyana

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$338,586

$29

27

Claude Brule

Algonquin College Of Applied Arts and Technology

President

$337,500

$8,737

28

Suzanne Madore

The Ottawa Hospital

Vice President/Vice-présidente

$337,386

$11,253

29

Michael Tremblay

Invest Ottawa (2013)

President and Chief Executive Officer

$336,617

$14,308

30

Brian Penney

Rideau Community Health Services

Physician

$334,036

$18,577

31

Philip Berardi

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Director/Directeur

$333,812

$1,303

$333,600

$9,770

32

Jeffrey Dale

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

President/Chief Executive Officer/Président / Directeur général

33

Steven Bell

City Of Ottawa - Police Services

Deputy Chief

$333,037

$19,339

34

Vera Etches

City Of Ottawa

Medical Officer Health, Public Health

$330,740

$1,063

35

Renée Amilcar

City Of Ottawa

General Manager, Transit Services Department

$330,665

$8,010

36

Rashmi Kothary

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Senior Research Scientist / Scientifique principal

$330,549

$762

37

Vincent Deslandes

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist/Pathologiste

$330,459

$1,110

38

Leslie Hamilton

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist/Pathologiste

$330,282

$1,135

39

Nadia Sant

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist/Pathologiste

$330,102

$1,189

40

Alex Munter

Children’s Hospital Of Eastern Ontario – Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre

President and Chief Executive Officer / Président et directeur général

$330,000

$1,214

41

Jacqueline Parai

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$329,727

$1,189

42

Nathalie Cadieux

The Ottawa Hospital

Vice President / Vice-présidente

$329,021

$11,135

43

Alexander Halil

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$328,486

$1,197

44

Lise Bourgeois

La Cité Collegiale

Présidente / President

$327,361

$17,050

45

Antonio Giulivi

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$325,908

$29

46

Stephanie Petkiewicz

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$325,297

$1,189

47

Cherif Ibrahim

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$325,076

$1,197

48

Dion Middleton

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$324,537

$1,189

49

Stephane Giguere

Ottawa Community Housing Corporation

Chief Executive Officer

$324,495

$1,033

50

Iris Yu Hung Teo

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$320,646

$1,189

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WHO MAKES WHAT – PROVINCIALLY FUNDED ORGANIZATIONS, CONT'D

(HIGHEST-PAID EMPLOYEES AT PROVINCIALLY-FUNDED ORGANIZATIONS IN OTTAWA. SOURCE: ONTARIO MINISTRY OF FINANCE)

Rank

Name

Employer

Job title

Salary paid

Taxable benefits

51

Brian Gannon

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$320,306

$1,197

52

Alan Forster

The Ottawa Hospital

Vice President / Vice-président

$317,743

$11,250

53

Younis Al-Khateeb

The Ottawa Hospital

Registered Nurse / Infirmière autorisée

$317,235

$358

54

Sarah Strickland

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$315,139

$1,189

55

Gerard Jansen

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$315,137

$1,189

56

John Woulfe

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$315,078

$1,189

57

Bryan Lo

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Director / Directeur

$315,062

$1,303

58

Susan Mcisaac

Right To Play International

Chief Executive Officer

$314,562

$30,441

59

Maryam Pourabdollah

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$313,279

$1,067

60

Elaine Leung

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$311,891

$1,520

61

John Veinot

Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)

Pathologist / Pathologiste

$311,015

$1,703

62

Sylvain Charbonneau

University Of Ottawa

Vice-recteur(rice) / Vice-President

$310,564

$249

63

Peter Jaskiewicz

University Of Ottawa

Professeur(e) titulaire / Full Professor

$308,028

$0

64

Jocelyn Côté

University Of Ottawa

Vice-doyen(ne) / Vice-Dean

$303,521

$121

65

Alain Stintzi

University Of Ottawa

Vice-doyen(ne) / Vice-Dean

$302,946

$121

66

Jill Scott

University Of Ottawa

Provost et Vice-recteur(rice) / Provost and Vice-President

$301,616

$249

67

Joanne Read

The Ottawa Hospital

Vice President / Vice-présidente

$300,712

$11,041

68

Jacline Nyman

University Of Ottawa

Vice-recteur(rice) / Vice-President

$300,000

$249

69

Daniel Chenier

City Of Ottawa

General Manager, Recreation, Cultural and Facility Services

$299,308

$6,939

70

Donna Gray

City Of Ottawa

General Manager, Community and Social Services

$298,279

$7,744

71

Wendy Stephanson

City Of Ottawa

City Manager

$293,921

$7,717

72

Dana Brown

Carleton University

Dean, Sprott School of Business

$292,032

$0

73

Dr. Rajiv Prihar

Queensway Carleton Hospital

Vice-President Medical Affairs

$290,997

$0

74

Jill Cotter

Sandy Hill Community Health Centre

Physician

$290,583

$1,274

75

Leonard Moore

Sandy Hill Community Health Centre

Physician

$290,583

$1,382

76

Cal Crocker

Royal Ottawa Health Care Group

Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer / Chef de l’exploitation et chef des finances

$287,968

$1,640

77

Jeremy Grimshaw

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Senior Research Scientist/Scientifique principal

$287,176

$762

78

Dean Fergusson

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Senior Research Scientist/Scientifique principal

$284,396

$762

79

Ron Amos

City Of Ottawa

Platoon Chief

$284,316

$1,001

80

Daniel Figeys

University Of Ottawa

Professeur(e) titulaire / Full Professor

$283,945

$121

81

Valerie Turner

City Of Ottawa

General Manager, Innovative Client Services

$283,319

$7,744

82

Michelle Foote

City Of Ottawa

Associate Medical Officer of Health

$282,876

$746

83

Roda Siraco

The Ottawa Hospital

Registered Nurse / Infirmière autorisée

$281,050

$358

84

Rick O’Connor

City Of Ottawa

City Clerk

$280,090

$7,744

85

Michael Rudnicki

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Senior Research Scientist / Scientifique principal

$279,772

$762

86

Sophia Leong

University Of Ottawa

Associé(e) exécutif(ve) / Executive Associate

$279,702

$0

87

Danielle Mcdonald

City Of Ottawa - Library Services

Chief Librarian / Chief Executive Officer

$278,261

$837

88

Kym Boycott

Children’s Hospital Of Eastern Ontario – Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre

Division Chief Genetics / Chef de la division génétique

$277,586

$504

89

Monir Taha

City Of Ottawa

Associate Medical Officer of Health

$277,365

$932

90

Renée Légaré

The Ottawa Hospital

Vice President / Vice-présidente

$275,000

$11,451

91

Michel Piche

Carleton University

Vice-President, Finance and Administration

$273,084

$0

92

Larry Kostiuk

Carleton University

Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Design

$272,875

$0

93

Robert Boyd

University Of Ottawa

Chaire de recherche du Canada / Canada Research Chair

$272,778

$0

94

Caroline Heick

Canadian Institute For Health Info

Vice President

$271,963

$529

95

Jennifer Doyle

University Of Ottawa

Vice-recteur(rice) / Vice-President

$270,000

$0

96

Sanni Yaya

University Of Ottawa

Professeur(e) titulaire / Full Professor

$270,000

$138

97

Melissa Brouwers

University Of Ottawa

Professeur(e) titulaire / Full Professor

$269,778

$53

98

Ruth Slack

University Of Ottawa

Professeur(e) titulaire / Full Professor

$269,778

$114

99

Stewart Elgie

University Of Ottawa

Professeur(e) titulaire / Full Professor

$268,817

$0

100

Edith Dumont

Conseil Des Écoles Publiques De L’est De L’ontario

Direction détachement Université Ontario Français

$268,090

$0

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