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How Team Canada is connecting digitally with fans ahead of 2021 Tokyo Paralympics

As Canada’s Paralympic athletes prepare for the Summer Paralympic Games, the Canadian Paralympic Committee is busy finding creative new ways to bring the competition to Canada.

Next stop, Ottawa: Megabus to start serving capital next week

Company says it will start providing service on May 20 from a new stop at the St. Laurent transit station to Toronto, Scarborough and Kingston.

Pumping concrete: With gyms closed, Ottawa entrepreneurs see opportunity manufacturing custom exercise gear

With many shops sold out of home exercise equipment, Garage Gym Guys is seeing rapid uptick of its custom-made concrete weights.

Three firms to roll out 1,200 e-scooters in Ottawa in expanded pilot project

Bird Canada, Lime and Neuron have won bids to deliver the two-wheeled electric vehicles in the second year of the scooter pilot.

Greyhound Canada to cut all routes, end operations

Ottawa to lose intercity bus connections to several cities

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.
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