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Building Healthier Workplaces

It's not your imagination: Work is making you sick. As companies do more with less, stress and subsequent mental-health issues are on the rise, affecting 25% of workers and costing employers $80 billion a year. Catherine Thomas, ...READ»

New Affordable Housing Celebrated in Ottawa | Canadian Funding Corp

Canadian Funding Corporation, CMHC and the Canadian Government share common goals: affordable housing.READ»

Canadian Funding Corp: Affordable Housing at Pallister Court, Ottawa, Canada

A Nepean Housing Corporation (NHC) project shows that mixing affordable housing for people with severe or multiple disabilities with geared to-income and market-rent units can create a sustainable community that provides a range of affordable housing solutions. READ»

Ottawa Shell Station First to Deliver Gasoline Blended with Cellulosic Ethanol

In what is being described as the first commercial delivery of cellulosic ethanol, a Shell service station in Ottawa, Ontario is selling gasoline containing a 10% blend of biofuel made from wheat straw. The biofuel and gasoline ...READ»

Crash course

Right now, I am doing a crash course in Web 2, Web 3, social networking, blogging and citizen journalism so that I can do better work for a very exciting client here in Ottawa.  They have great technology, they have bootstrapped a ...READ»