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Chinatown community watches nervously as Yangtze property draws interest from developers

With interest increasing in a “landmark” Chinatown restaurant Yangtze that was recently put up for sale, the local business community is holding out hope that the familiar eatery will carry on, even as potential buyers consider redeveloping the property.

‘It’s time to take a break’: Luc Levesque on leaving Shopify’s C-suite, his love for Ottawa and more

After stints as a senior executive at two of the tech industry’s biggest global players, Luc Levesque is pausing to take a well-deserved break for a bit of play himself.

When startup Friendlier came calling, Ottawa angel investor Nadine Martel saw it as a perfect fit

When Nadine Martel received a LinkedIn message from Kayli Dale and Jacquie Hutchings, the co-founders of Friendlier, a startup that aims to eliminate single-use packaging thereby reducing waste and emissions, she was intrigued. 

Business leaders divided on feds’ plan to modernize Parliamentary Precinct

The federal government’s proposal to turn a two-and-a-half-acre site across from Parliament Hill into an office and retail complex is a “great start” toward revitalizing the Parliamentary Precinct, a prominent Ottawa real estate executive said Friday – but other business leaders say they’re not convinced the project will give struggling downtown merchants the boost they need.

$125M acquisition of Queen Street office tower a ‘sound investment,’ PSPC says

The federal public works department says its purchase of a prominent downtown office building whose occupants include...

Decade-long plan to modernize ‘key part’ of Parliamentary Precinct to start this fall, feds say

In an email to OBJ this week, PSPC called the Block 2 redevelopment project “a “key part” of the federal government’s efforts “to restore and modernize” the Parliamentary Precinct.

Software maker TrueContext acquired by U.S. private equity firm for $150M

Ottawa-based software maker TrueContext Corp. is being acquired by U.S. private equity firm Battery Ventures in an...

Survey success: Recollective’s market-research software making its mark

While the recent tech downturn sent shockwaves through boardrooms around the world, Recollective kept its bearings. The Ottawa-based...

Ottawa angel Marisa Fosco on why she backed women-led Afynia and its work diagnosing endometriosis

Lauren Foster has made it her mission to shed light on endometriosis, a consistently misunderstood and often ignored women’s health issue. Now, with the help of angel investors such as Marisa Fosco, she’s making progress.

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