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A business love story now on the map thanks to Digital Main Street

Local entrepreneurs work to bring in-person experience to online store and help customers feel a personal connection with its products.

Hexo to issue up to $150M in new stock to fund U.S. expansion plans

Ottawa-based pot producer says it also wants to upgrade its plant in Belleville, where it bottles cannabis-infused drinks in a joint venture with brewing giant Molson Coors.

Wealth of influence: Investment broker to Ottawa’s tech stars takes control of boutique firm PWL Capital

Cameron Passmore is now majority shareholder of PWL, whose high-powered client roster includes local tech glitterati such as Shopify’s Tobi Lütke and Harley Finkelstein.

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

Bridgehead posts slight Q1 profit as wholesale, e-commerce sales surge

Coffee chain’s wholesale revenues are up 106 per cent so far in 2021 compared with a year ago, and company says it expects to quadruple its pre-pandemic online sales totals this year.

‘Staying true to our customers’: Giant Tiger still a ferocious retail force at age 60

Iconic Ottawa chain has never forgotten where it came from even as it's grown into a nationwide discount retail leader with 259 stores and more than 10,000 employees.