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Kichesippi Beer Co. taps into new revenue stream by selling hard-to-find brands

Owner Paul Meek's new venture, Bottles and Cans Beverage Company, focuses on Ontario brews and ciders that aren't readily available at the LCBO.

Downtown Ottawa retailers waiting for the workers to return

The city’s central business district remains virtually empty more than a year into the pandemic, leaving a legion of forgotten retailers searching for answers, writes Ron Corbett

Bridgehead posts slight Q1 profit as wholesale, e-commerce sales surge

Coffee chain’s wholesale revenues are up 106 per cent so far in 2021 compared with a year ago, and company says it expects to quadruple its pre-pandemic online sales totals this year.

‘Staying true to our customers’: Giant Tiger still a ferocious retail force at age 60

Iconic Ottawa chain has never forgotten where it came from even as it's grown into a nationwide discount retail leader with 259 stores and more than 10,000 employees.

Teed off: Ottawa golf course operators say sport unfairly targeted in latest closures

Local clubs on track for record revenues in 2021 before provincially mandated shutdown, owners and managers say.

Delay of game: Ottawa Titans’ inaugural Frontier League season pushed back to 2022

New baseball franchise's planned 2021 debut scuttled due to uncertainty over when the Canada-U.S. border will reopen.

Bridgehead sales down 30% in 2020, parent company says

Ottawa-based coffee chain says it's still going ahead with its planned new location at Carleton University this fall.

Boom cycle: Ottawa bike shops can’t keep up with pandemic-fuelled sales surge

Cycling retailers are being run off their feet as cooped-up consumers look for healthy, safe activities to get them out of the house.

Business visionaries: Algonquin students’ ski goggle retail site gaining on competition

Startup has already landed a deal with one of the city’s best-known sports retailers as it seeks to cash in on a surge in outdoor activities during the pandemic.

Long Road Back concert postponed in wake of city’s move to red zone

All 100 available tickets for the show originally scheduled for March 27 sold out in less than an hour.
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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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