Sarah MacFarlane

Sarah MacFarlane is a reporter for the Ottawa Business Journal. She also works as a web coordinator for Great River Media. Sarah is a graduate of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and likes to write about interesting new businesses, inclusion and diversity, human resources, entrepreneurship, and business across Eastern Ontario for EOBJ.

Tourism may not recover for another two years, foot traffic ‘still missing,’ officials say

Ottawa, Tourism

While tourism officials in Ottawa point to some positives for the summer season, they say the industry may not fully recover to pre-pandemic levels until

Ottawa Tourism offers one-time ‘emergency’ funding for major festivals

Ottawa, Top Stories, Tourism

As festivals and events in the city continue to recover from the pandemic, Ottawa Tourism has announced it will provide one-time emergency financial support.

Old Ottawa South businesses say Bank St. bus plan would impact already limited parking

Ottawa

A city plan that would improve public transit but also limit on-street parking on Bank Street in Old Ottawa South is causing concern for local

As burglaries plague Chinatown businesses, one entrepreneur is making lemons into lemon meringue pie

Ottawa

The founder of 5:2:8 Creative Coffee Collective on Somerset Street West in Chinatown said he’s choosing to turn a recent burglary at his property “into

Feds giving little indication they will extend CEBA repayment deadline

Ottawa

As business owners struggle to pay back CEBA loans, local advocates aren’t giving up hope that the federal government will extend the upcoming deadline for

Vegetarian single mom not sheepish about her new life breeding rare Icelandic livestock

Eastern Ontario Business Journal

If you’d asked her six years ago, Kathryn Stuart would never have predicted where she would find herself today: working the land on her farm

Employees struggling with transit? Here’s what business owners can do to help

Human Resources, Ottawa

In the wake of a prolonged shutdown of Ottawa’s light-rail transit system and with winter weather conditions looming, unreliable public transit is creating uncertainty and

Businesses need ‘contingency plans’ to account for city’s troubled LRT system, advocate says

Ottawa

Ottawa’s LRT service resumed on the full length of Line 1 today after a month-long hiatus, but business owners are hesitant to celebrate as they

Breathe luxury vacation rentals acquires Sandbanks tour agency, fuelling expansion across Eastern Ontario

Ottawa, Tourism

Ottawa-based Breathe Vacation Rentals is continuing its expansion across Ontario and western Quebec with the acquisition of Sandbanks Vacations, a popular tour and rental agency