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.

Ottawa Valley business owners navigate evacuation orders, thick smoke at outset of tourist season

Eastern Ontario Business Journal

Businesses in the Ottawa Valley are doing what they can as a wildfire continues to burn about 150 km west of Ottawa at Centennial Lake,

Am I earning what others are earning? Local CPA designs website to shed light on pay transparency

Insider Only Ottawa

It’s not only the ByWard Market that needs help with safety and security, business leaders say

Ottawa

While a new city report aimed at revitalizing the ByWard Market is in the works, local business officials argue that other areas of Ottawa are

Liquidation bin store Quick Pick expands rapidly across Eastern Ontario

Eastern Ontario Business Journal

Quick Pick, an overstock and liquidation store, opened a new location in Smiths Falls earlier this month and has plans to continue expanding across Eastern

Wicked Wanda's Bank Street homelessness addiction

Sex shop owner sounds the alarm over homelessness crisis, addiction on Bank Street

Ottawa, Retail

In the time since a methadone clinic opened across the street, this shop owner has seen an increase in drug use and homelessness on her

Business is blooming: How one entrepreneur’s vision kept a well-known florist from closing up shop

Ottawa, Retail

When florist Elizabeth Young heard that well-known floral shop Tivoli was for sale, she immediately saw the advantages of merging it with her own nearby