My Ottawa: Bruce Linton on where he gets his morning radio fix and more

Bruce Linton, founder of Canopy Growth and Ruckify
Bruce Linton is the co-founder and former CEO of Canopy Growth. File photo
Editor's Note

My Ottawa is an occasional column in which we ask local business personalities about their life in the nation’s capital and what they like most about the city.

As founder and former chief executive of Canopy Growth Corp., Bruce Linton is one of the region’s best-known entrepreneurs. 

But as much as his connection to Canada’s first publicly traded cannabis company has raised his profile, the Carleton University graduate’s ties to Ottawa and the surrounding area run much deeper. 

In the latest instalment of OBJ’s My Ottawa series, Linton fills us in on the local radio personality who makes him laugh in the morning, the Ottawa tech magnate he admires most and why throwing a “weird cut” of meat in his smoker is one of his favourite indulgences.

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Read on to find out more.   

What area of the city/region do you live in? Southwest

What type of home do you have (condo, house, etc.)? Same single-family home for 20-plus years.

What type of pet do you have? Too many. Senegal parrot, former barn cat and mini Aussiedoodle dog

What is your favourite place to eat in Ottawa? Home, Cyranos, Pita Bell Kabab

What is your favourite activity in Ottawa? Canada Day

What’s your hobby? Keeping our property trimmed of any dead trees, burning the resulting debris and generally being “productive” outside (yes, I have a burn permit).

What’s your favourite thing about Ottawa? CBC Radio One’s Ottawa Morning show because Doug (Hempstead) is hilarious; the underdog extra effort that businesses in this city show; and being in the nation’s capital.

What’s your favourite local charity or cause? In order: Big Brothers Big Sisters; The Ottawa Hospital; Queensway Carleton Hospital

What’s your favourite part of town? Old Ottawa South

What’s your favourite festival? Ottawa GreekFest

What’s your favourite Ottawa sports team? Redblacks

What type of music do you listen to? Whatever boom 99.7 plays

What’s your favourite retailer in Ottawa? Giant Tiger. They are local and they really do a great job to keep local produce and price match.

What Ottawa personality, past or present, do you admire? Sir Terence Matthews and Jim Durrell

If you took a staycation in Ottawa, what would you do? Set up at the Westin and walk miles in every direction with a list of restaurants to explore.

What’s your favourite business event or conference in Ottawa? The annual Lumière gala at the Brookstreet Hotel. It really is “the” event that draws so many people I should see more often.

What’s your favourite meeting or convention venue? Shaw Centre, in part because it is so awesome compared to how terrible the prior structure was.

Where do you get your hair cut? Hazem’s Barber Shop in Barrhaven

What’s your favourite thing to do in Ottawa to pamper yourself? Finding some weird cut of meat and putting it on my smoker for eight hours. It means I’m staying at home and not running around doing tasks.

What type of car do you drive? 2004 VW Passat

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