Category: Ottawa
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Building Savings and Wealth: A Saturday Morning Finance Workshop in Ottawa
Event date: Saturday, August 15, 2026, 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Woodward Drive. A free 90-minute session on saving and long-term wealth building — here is the agenda, the logistics and what to expect.
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Ottawa’s Best Networking Golf Tournament 2026: Sold Out, but the Waiting List Is Open
Event date: Tuesday, August 18, 2026, 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. at GreyHawk Golf Club. The Board of Trade’s annual tournament has sold out again — here is how the day runs, what it costs, and how students realistically get in.
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Business After 5 at St. Laurent Shopping Centre: Ottawa’s Easiest Networking Room
Event date: Thursday, September 17, 2026, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at St. Laurent Shopping Centre. A two-hour Board of Trade mixer with a live DJ, light bites and a very mixed crowd — what it costs and how to work the room.
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Carleton University Fall Career & Networking Fair 2026: What to Do Before October 7
Event date: Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Carleton University’s Ravens’ Nest. One of the city’s biggest on-campus recruiting days — who shows up, and how to make the five hours count.
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Budgeting on a Student Income Without Tracking Every Coffee
Half of Canadians keep a budget, and the ones who do are half as likely to fall behind on payments. A student budget built around the term, not around logging every purchase.
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OSAP, Explained: What Every Ottawa Student Should Know
OSAP is paid as a weekly maximum, $530 for a single student in 2026 to 2027. What the grants add, why the grace period has two different interest rules, and two ways to extend it.
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Your First Credit Card: What to Look for as a Student
A first credit card is free or expensive depending on the grace period rules, not the rewards. The 21 day minimum, why cash advances have no grace period, and a three rule operating plan.
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Day in the Life: A Junior Analyst at an Ottawa Wealth Firm
The first year of an analyst job is mostly maintaining other people models and defending numbers. An hour by hour view, plus what Job Bank says the role formally requires.
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Interview Prep 101: Breaking Into Ottawa’s Finance Scene
Interviewers are resolving one question, not scoring answers. What employers assess, how to build a story bank, and how to answer the pay question with Ottawa wage data.
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Tuition and Program Changes for the Coming Year, Decoded
Ontario now requires every syllabus to individually price mandatory and optional course materials and flag second hand restrictions. What else changed, and a five step cost audit.