Nathan Drescher

Adam Wilk is the Ottawa-based founder of Zerowriter, which makes a distraction-free word processor that uses e-ink displays, the same low-glare technology found in e-readers. It connects to nothing. There’s no browser, no notifications and no video player.

A poster hanging on the wall at Hub350 has not changed in almost two decades. It maps the family tree of Ottawa’s technology companies in hundreds of tiny boxes and traces the lineage of local firms back to institutions such as Bell-Northern Research and the National Research Council.

Nathalie Trepanier spent years as a reporter, covering crime for a number of media outlets in Ottawa and elsewhere. As a journalist, what she saw online bothered her.

A few months before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, an Ottawa-based defence-tech company was already...

When Naleem Badurdeen arrived in Ottawa from Sri Lanka two decades ago, he ran into the same wall that greets thousands of skilled immigrants every year: either prove your experience or remain unemployed.

When Sara Fortier returns to Ottawa next month to launch her debut book, Design Research Mastery, she’ll...

Elizabeth and Allan Malcomson spent years working the floor of their family’s Canadian Tire store in Kanata,...

A corner office in the old IBM building on Riverside Drive used to be a music room,...

In the winter of 1994, Kevin Bailey was working at a Daimler-Benz research campus outside of Stuttgart,...