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Encore performance: The Drive-In Experience Ottawa is back – this time at RCGT Park

Organizers say they hope the popular movie nights will also return to Wesley Clover Parks in the near future.

Dramatic comeback: ByTowne Cinema to reopen under new ownership

"There’s light in the darkness,” the cherished Ottawa institution said Thursday, adding the beloved theatre will be back in business "when pandemic conditions permit."

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.
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Generative AI is a superpower for tech entrepreneurs creating new products. AI can help analyse problems, explore options and define solutions at a pace never before possible. Here’s the question: while AI is an inventor’s best friend, what role does it play in inventing new products from an intellectual property perspective? In this bonus episode of Techopia Live, OBJ publisher Michael Curran speaks with Kushal Shah, a registered Canadian patent agent and lawyer who recently joined Ottawa-based Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP. The discussion explores exactly how much heavy lifting an AI can do before it becomes difficult for a human to legally claim an invention. The conversation provides practical guidance on establishing a paper trail to prove a meaningful human contribution to the final product. Learn how to safely validate AI-generated suggestions and avoid the confidentiality traps of feeding unpatented ideas and proprietary data into generative AI systems in this latest episode. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:25 Introducing Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP 02:09 Introducing Kushal Shah 23:50 OBJ Updates and Closing 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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