Ottawa makes list of top 100 cities in the world

Canada's capital placed 96th on the annual rankings by Resonance Consultancy which looks at the top 100 cities in the world.

Ottawa is one of five Canadian cities to make the list, along with Toronto (24th), Montreal (57th), Calgary (65th) and Vancouver (69th). 

The rankings are based on six basis for criteria including place, product, programming, people, prosperity and promotion. 

Here is the rundown on how Ottawa made the list, according to the study:

“Canada’s capital has long lived in the shadow of its exciting big-city siblings, Toronto and Montreal. But a national 150th birthday in 2017 brought attention to the citizens (ranking number 38 in people) of a city where one in four is an immigrant. Ottawans are uncommonly intelligent: the city ranks number 15 in educational attainment. All that brainpower has poured into some 1,800 knowledge-based businesses—every- thing from clean technology and life sciences to digital media, aerospace and software. Tens of thousands of new jobs are the result (even in this period of economic uncertainty)—along with a number 79 ranking in global GDP per capita. In a city with a relatively low cost of living (although house prices are ascending as insanely as anywhere else in Canada), that means there’s money to spend on plentiful things to do (with a number 56 ranking in Attractions), which increasingly, finally prioritize Indigenous reconciliation. The year-old Mādahòkì Farm (meaning “share the land” in Algonquin Anishinaabe) is a new agritourism venture out of the Canadian Museum of History where Indigenous communities can reconnect with the land through both healing and wellness programs and social enterprise opportunities.”

The full list can be viewed here.