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Bright Side of Business: uOttawa social enterprise turns plastic waste into everyday items
In partnership with local industry, students have created a small-scale recycling system that can be used to create everything from phone cases to jewelry to

Mark your calendars for Feb. 8 launch party of downtown’s new name: SoPa
These restaurant owners have come up with their own way of breathing new life into a downtown that has yet to fully recover from the

Cannabis company Hexo regains compliance with Nasdaq’s minimum bid price requirement
Hexo Corp. says the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC has informed the cannabis company that it has regained compliance with minimum bid price requirements.

NCC ‘optimistic’ LeBreton lease deal with Senators will be done by this fall
NCC’s board of directors heard Thursday that talks aimed at hammering out a long-term lease on the land west of downtown are progressing even as


Ottawa council eyes future of Wellington Street nearly a year after ‘Freedom Convoy’
Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe says the city’s transportation committee will vote on whether to extend the closure of Wellington Street next week.


Zellers returning to Ottawa, but chain will have ‘tough time’ winning market share, biz prof says
Three of the 25 new Zellers stores will be in the National Capital Region – at HBC’s Rideau Street location, the St. Laurent Shopping Centre

Ottawa’s first automated restaurant provides answers to industry’s woes
One local restaurateur is stepping out of the pandemic and into the future with a new restaurant concept that he believes will solve some of
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