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From laid off to new business launch, pair of ex-Canopy employees take ‘charge of our own destiny’

Seasoned copywriter and graphic designer team up as partners of new Ottawa-based creative service studio

OAX 2021: The road to recovery

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Philanthropy in Ottawa: Indigenous youth get assist from former NHL players

'We hope to inspire other local businesses to make a positive impact in whichever way they can.'

The Bright Side of Business: Africa World Market celebrates two decades of growth and expansions

Starting with a small downtown shop, the family-run enterprise now includes two thriving stores

Podcast: A fresh Forty Under 40 class, Bryden’s new waste-to-energy tech, Eastern Ontario tourism investments

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Ottawa SMEs to receive free rapid COVID-19 testing kits

Any local business with 150 or fewer employees will be eligible to receive the tests through the Ottawa Board of Trade.

Ottawa-Gatineau’s jobless rate ticks up to 6.7% in April

While the region's economy added 7,600 jobs, the labour force also jumped by an additional 10,200 as more people resumed their search for work, Statistics Canada says.

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From lawyers to landlords, Ottawa entrepreneurs continue to rush into increasingly crowded cannabis retail market

With more than 100 cannabis shops either operating or poised to open, business owners are looking further outside Ottawa's core to 'underserved' markets

50 years and counting for Ottawa’s largest independent law firm

A milestone that’s been built one relationship at a time
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The narrative surrounding the Canadian tech sector often focuses on boom-and-bust cycles, brain drain, or the historical demise of past giants. But the numbers tell a different story. Driven by evolutionary waves from telecommunications to software-as-a-service, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence, the national technology ecosystem has quietly produced remarkable long-term enterprise value. New research shows that Ottawa tech unicorns have produced at least one billion-dollar firm every single decade, making it the highest per-capita producer of unicorns in the country. Moreso, local tech ventures account for a staggering three-quarters of all-time wealth creation in Canadian tech history, driving $1.4 trillion in wealth over the past 36 years. In this episode of Techopia Live, OBJ publisher Michael Curran celebrates Ottawa Innovation Week by speaking with tech veteran Sasha Gera, chief operating officer of HealWell AI. Gera shares his research and insights from his newly launched ledger, Unicorn North, highlighting how Ottawa stacks up against other major Canadian cities and why it remains the most productive, distraction-free destination for building sustainable, hundred-year companies. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:22 Introducing Sasha Gera 14:45 Sponsor Segment 17:57 Innovation Week 25:15 Closing and What’s Ahead at OBJ 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
Techopia: Is Ottawa the country’s biggest tech wealth generator? | Episode 298

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