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Op-ed: Ottawa’s strength as a ‘Bootstrap City’ is one of its superpowers

"Recently," writes Invest Ottawa's Nick Quain, "I recognized something unique about Ottawa’s tech ecosystem: the lack of early-stage capital hadn’t held us back at all. In fact, being “Bootstrap City” may have helped."

Top of Mind in Tech: Aydin Mirzaee talks about how AI is transforming the way marketing teams work

In this instalment of Top of Mind in Tech, Mirzaee breaks down what the mainstreaming of AI has meant for client priorities and how it’s changing the marketing landscape as we know it. 

Nightlife council members ready ‘to fight the perspective that Ottawa is boring’

While some people still think of Ottawa as a sleepy government town, the members of the capital’s new nightlife council have been awake and dreaming for decades about how to get more people out to enjoy everything the city has to offer.

Ottawa commercial real estate execs ‘seeing the market come alive again’

Michael Pyman, Colliers’ Ottawa-based vice-president of national investment services, says there could be a significant uptick in local commercial transactions in 2025, especially if the Bank of Canada continues to reduce interest rates and it becomes cheaper for investors to borrow capital.

After a tough 2024, Ottawa-Gatineau’s economy likely to pick up speed next year, report says

Ottawa-Gatineau’s economy progressed sluggishly through the third quarter of this year, but economist Richard Forbes said things are expected to look up for 2025. 

Ericsson partners with feds to boost funding for Kanata R&D centre

Wireless networking technology company Ericsson Canada says it is expanding a previously announced partnership with the federal...

Where would we be without them: Celebrating 30 years of philanthropy at the Phils

Award recipients past and present gathered yesterday at the Rogers Centre Ottawa to mark the 30th anniversary...

Bubbling over: How Ottawa’s Bathorium is prepping for a $2.5M capital raise

For Gregory Macdonald, the founder and CEO of Ottawa-based Bathorium, his upcoming fundraising round is about one...

Two Ottawa ‘creatives’ not selected for the nightlife council plan their own ‘council-like’ project

Jessica Traina has been quite public when it comes to her views on Ottawa.  She has dedicated her...

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