Ottawa

The 2023 Welch LLP Business Growth Survey launched Wednesday, providing insights into Ottawa's regional economy, business confidence and emerging trends.

Nearly a quarter-million small businesses across Canada risk permanent closure as the deadline to repay pandemic-era loans fast approaches, warns a report from the CFIB.

Shopify says it wants to push back against the trend of companies filing hundreds of patent infringement lawsuits against businesses every year, and is waging a court battle to make its point.

Home sales in the capital rose six per cent last month from May 2022, the Ottawa Real Estate Board reported this week – and realtors say the bidding wars that raged during the market’s peak in late 2021 and early 2022 are back as a lack of supply continues to limit buyers’ options.

Almost six years after plans were unveiled, construction has started on the future Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in south Ottawa. 

Troubled Ottawa-based life sciences firm Avivagen says it has received “numerous responses” from companies that are interested in potentially acquiring all or part of its operations.

Cannabis retailer Fire & Flower Holdings Corp. says it has received a court order for creditor protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act.

Ottawa software firm Intouch Insight has signed a letter of intent to acquire a North America-based customer experience measurement company in a deal that could be worth up to US$3.6 million.

A pair of high-profile Ottawa companies have been named to CIBC's 'narwhal' list of Canadian tech enterprises with the strongest potential for long-term growth.