Ottawa Fact Sheet - January 2007

Unemployment Rates December 2006
StatsCan) Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted

Local Employment Outlook
(Manpower Inc. Survey 4th Quarter 2006)

Overall New Home Starts in Ottawa (CMHC)

1999: $274M
2000: $1.3B
2001: $921M
2002: $734M
2003: $241.71M
2004: $189.58M
2005: $359.40M
2006: $246.65M

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U of O Heart Institute receives $10M grant (Ottawa Business Journal, 12/14/06)
The Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has awarded more than $10 million to two national cardiac research centres at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) to identify and treat the causes of coronary artery disease.

Les Suites hotel general manager named Hotelier of the Year (Ottawa Business Journal, 12/04/06)
Steve Georgopoulous, the general manager of Les Suites hotel, has been honoured as Hotelier of the Year by the Ottawa Gatineau Hotel Association.

Telesat sold for $3.42B (Ottawa Business Journal, 12/18/06)
Canada’s largest telecommunications services provider has sold Ottawa-based Telesat for $3.42 billion to Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board and U.S. satellite firm Loral space & Communications Inc..

March signs up Giant Tiger (Ottawa Business Journal, 12/18/06)
March Networks, the specialist in digital video surveillance and data technology, has signed up Ottawa-based retail chain Giant Tiger Stores Ltd..

Enablence gets early order for transceiver, receives third patent (Ottawa Business Journal, 12/14/06)
Ottawa-based Enablence Technologies, which develops fibre-to-the-home transceivers for optical modems, has announced that it has received its first purchase order for its new diplexer transceiver earlier than expected.

Calian signs more than $8M in new contracts (Ottawa Business Journal, 12/14/06)
Kanata-based Calian Technologies Ltd. has signed several new contracts in both Canada and the U.S. for its business and technology services, totaling more than $8 million.

Wi-LAN shares jump 64% on $49M Nokia deal (Ottawa Business Journal, 12/05/06)
Shares of Ottawa-based Wi-LAN soared more than 64 per cent as it announced that Nokia Corporation has paid almost $50 million for its patent portfolio.

Allen-Vanguard wins $3.5M contract to provide bomb detection equipment (Ottawa Business Journal, 12/01/06)
Allen-Vanguard has won a $3.75-million contract to provide its advanced digital electronic counter measures (ECM) equipment to another NATO country.

Carleton team finds room for award (Ottawa Sun, 12/29/06)
The Acuity Adaptable Patient Room Prototype Project, developed by Carleton University in collaboration with Clemson University in South Carolina for U.S.-based Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, has won in the professional conceptual design category of the Healthcare Environment Awards competition sponsored by Contract magazine.