Ottawa

Small businesses and tourism operators in Ottawa are seeing visitors cancel tours and avoid sightseeing around the city amid lingering clouds of smoke and poor air quality from wildfires burning in Ontario and Quebec. 

Rhodes & Williams Ltd., an Ottawa-based insurance broker established in 1935, has been acquired by global property and casualty broker NFP.

Ottawa biotech startup Spiderwort, which has raised more than US$15 million to develop technology that regrows spinal cord tissue and other body parts, has joined one of the largest innovation hubs in North America as it looks to scale the business.

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.