Caroline Phillips

Caroline Phillips is the journalist, writer and social correspondent behind OBJsocial.

Tech founders make their pitch at L-Spark’s SaaS Showcase

, Ottawa, Techopia

An Ottawa-based Canadian startup accelerator designed to help entrepreneurs grow their great ideas into thriving tech companies celebrated the graduation of its ninth cohort Thursday.

Up Close: Carole Saad takes the business of fun seriously

Ottawa

A word of advice: Never tell a professional event planner how lucky they are to have a job that pays them to party. Not only

At ease, soldiers – it’s the 2023 Army Ball

The special evening offered a level of formal elegance our region’s social scene hasn’t witnessed much since before the pandemic.

Mayor’s Breakfast: Business leader Kathryn Tremblay supports increased flexibility in the workplace

Ottawa,

Forget the coffee and eggs, the best way to wake up this morning was by feeding off the positive vibes that Ottawa business leader Kathryn

From upscale residences to busy underpasses, local artist makes his mark

Ottawa

For such a popular and prolific artist, Christopher Griffin is surprisingly quiet and understated. But don’t let his soft-spoken nature fool you; he cares an

Up Close: The story of Grant and Pam Hooker is truly a ‘tail’ of giving and taking

Ottawa

There are few things as Canadian as BeaverTails pastries except, maybe, for a tongue stuck to a frozen flagpole. But here’s what many might not

Invest Ottawa hosts epic grad party at Bayview Yards

The city’s innovation hub was party central as some 400 people from the business community celebrated and cheered on our local entrepreneurs during Invest Ottawa’s

People on the Move: Ali Shafaee joins Live Nation Canada to grow local concert, festival scene

Ottawa, People on the Move

Live Nation Canada has expanded its team with new senior leadership in its Ottawa office, announcing award-winning music festival promoter Ali Shafaee as its regional

Lawrence Greenspon gets ’em jazzed up at arts benefit for Ottawa Jazz Festival

Ottawa,

Lawrence Greenspon really does deserve a hand (might as well make it the jazz-hand kind) for helping out at the Ottawa Jazz Festival’s annual live

Queensway Carleton Hospital honours the late Hank Mews at Visionaries Breakfast

Ottawa,

The makers, the doers, the dreamers and the builders of our community, raised more than $323,000 for the Queensway Carleton Hospital Foundation at its Visionaries