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Former NCC, City of Ottawa planning boss Willis to lead Stantec’s federal infrastructure practice

Historic former department store building on Sparks Street up for sale

The six-storey building on Sparks Street is fully leased to Scotiabank, which purchased it in 1983 and sold it to a private ownership group a few years ago.

New businesses fill empty spots in the Glebe, with world juniors expected to be a boon

Darrell Cox is expecting another strong holiday season for businesses in the Glebe as consumers prioritize shopping local and the World Junior hockey championships bring a surge in traffic. 

Broccolini files plan to build Ottawa’s largest warehouse in Barrhaven east

Montreal-based Broccolini recently filed a proposal to construct a five-storey, 3.1-million-square-foot distribution facility about a kilometre southeast of the intersection of Woodroffe Avenue and Fallowfield Road.

Top of Mind in Tech: Easy, right? Alexandre Synnett helps the feds tackle AI, fix the Phoenix pay system

In this instalment of Top of Mind in Tech, Alexandre Synnett speaks with Techopia’s David Sali about CGI’s role in helping the government implement AI and fix Phoenix.

Ross Video CEO David Ross rethinking plan to take firm public in 2025

Ross Video CEO and majority shareholder David Ross says he is putting plans to take the company...

Three women-led Ottawa startups among SheBoot’s latest graduating cohort

Three Ottawa-based startups were among the 2024 cohort of SheBoot graduates after the organization’s grand finale took...

From ice fishing to snowmobiling, regional tourism businesses get creative in face of warmer winters

Winter tourism businesses in Eastern Ontario are bracing for uncertainty as increasingly unpredictable weather patterns disrupt the...

Minto Apartment REIT sells Ottawa apartment complex for $69M

Minto Apartment REIT has reached an agreement to sell an apartment complex in the city’s southeast end...

Vancouver-based chef looks to crack Ottawa market with brunch-focused eatery Yolks

When Vancouver-based chef Steve Ewing got a cold call from Happy Belly Food Group asking if he’d be interested in expanding his brunch-focused restaurant business, Yolks, to Ottawa, he initially declined.
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The narrative surrounding the Canadian tech sector often focuses on boom-and-bust cycles, brain drain, or the historical demise of past giants. But the numbers tell a different story. Driven by evolutionary waves from telecommunications to software-as-a-service, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence, the national technology ecosystem has quietly produced remarkable long-term enterprise value. New research shows that Ottawa tech unicorns have produced at least one billion-dollar firm every single decade, making it the highest per-capita producer of unicorns in the country. Moreso, local tech ventures account for a staggering three-quarters of all-time wealth creation in Canadian tech history, driving $1.4 trillion in wealth over the past 36 years. In this episode of Techopia Live, OBJ publisher Michael Curran celebrates Ottawa Innovation Week by speaking with tech veteran Sasha Gera, chief operating officer of HealWell AI. Gera shares his research and insights from his newly launched ledger, Unicorn North, highlighting how Ottawa stacks up against other major Canadian cities and why it remains the most productive, distraction-free destination for building sustainable, hundred-year companies. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:22 Introducing Sasha Gera 14:45 Sponsor Segment 17:57 Innovation Week 25:15 Closing and What’s Ahead at OBJ For more on Ottawa’s tech and innovation scene, visit https://obj.ca/techopia Subscribe to Techopia’s weekly newsletter here: https://obj121.activehosted.com/f/5
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