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‘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.

City’s industrial availability rate to hit 4.4% in 2024 as new inventory floods market: CBRE

Ottawa’s industrial availability rate is expected to jump to 4.4 per cent by the end of 2024...

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