
Pretty (smart) in pink: New flower café and shop sells itself
With pink plates, pink chairs, pink cotton floss adorning drinks, and a wall of floor-to-ceiling powder-pink roses, marketing for the Luxe Blooms Flower Café often
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Pretty (smart) in pink: New flower café and shop sells itself
With pink plates, pink chairs, pink cotton floss adorning drinks, and a wall of floor-to-ceiling powder-pink roses, marketing for the Luxe Blooms Flower Café often

Heidi Hauver explains why she chooses remote work and how she brings it to life at Shinydocs
Ottawa-based HR leader Heidi Hauver never thought there’d come a day when her professional life didn’t revolve around the office.

Optimizing the benefits of OKRs
I’ve implemented OKRs and have now completed my first cycle through the framework – now what? With Q4 well under way and 2023 on the

Milestone moment for Ottawa Riverkeeper as it makes NCC River House its new home
Ottawa Riverkeeper announced today that it has signed a lease to become the first official tenant of the NCC’s newly renovated River House, a celebrated

Ottawa startup leaders talk resilience at TiECON Canada
Resilience was the theme that anchored the TiECON Canada 2022 conference for startups, entrepreneurs, investors and other members of the business community.

Business leaders react to Sutcliffe mayoralty win
Ottawa’s business community will have many points of intersection and discussion with the city’s new mayor-elect Mark Sutcliffe and his team.

Transforming any organization during volatile times requires a heightened level of flexibility, adaptability and strong leadership. If the way we respond to crises defines us,

Op-ed: Patience is what mayor-elect Sutcliffe needs from our business community
The best thing our dynamic business community can do is be patient and give him what no opposing hockey coach would ever tolerate: space and

Op-ed: Larry O’Brien offers some hard-earned lessons to Ottawa’s mayor-elect
Former mayor Larry O’Brien congratulates and offers advice to Mark Sutcliffe in this opinion column: “you have a very complex and demanding job in front

‘Leader of leaders’: Community housing exec keeps it real
Giguère is not ashamed of his modest roots and, in fact, believes they’ve helped to shape who he is. “Being humble is a key element
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