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The Ottawa Festival Network announced last week that Tara Shannon, who helped establish the Ottawa Music Industry Coalition, has joined the organization as its new executive director.

The excitement of starting a new job can quickly subside once signs emerge that the workplace culture is toxic. 

High-profile ad agency McMillan has merged with a U.S. firm as the Ottawa-based company continues to rebuild...

A report written by an Ottawa business professor together with Restaurants Canada and the Canadian Federation for Independent Business (CFIB) is calling on the federal government to temporarily freeze EI premiums as small businesses across the country continue to grapple with rising costs.

At least one Ottawa business owner says he’d like to see the city offer tax breaks to small businesses during lengthy construction projects that impact a business’s ability to operate. 

The co-founder and CEO of Ottawa-based last-mile delivery service Trexity admits his latest gambit raised more than a few eyebrows around the office for its boldness.

The co-founder and CEO of health-tech pioneer Fullscript has piloted the Ottawa-based company to a position of dominance in North America’s burgeoning wellness industry.

Kroon Electric Corp. announced last week it has received a “significant growth capital investment” from BDC Capital, the investment arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada, and a group of investors led by U.S.-based serial entrepreneur George Fechter.

Founded in 2011, Food Cycle Science sells a portable device about the size of a couple of large crock pots that grinds up food waste such as fruit and vegetable peelings, meat, bones, pits and shells and converts it into a dry, odourless fertilizer containing nitrogen, phosphate and potassium.