Ottawa

Ottawa-specific coverage of local business news, including tourism, retail, transportation, city hall and more. Issues related to human resources and philanthropy are often featured.

Pro-pipeline protest convoy arrives in Ottawa after rolling across country

Ottawa

A convoy of angry Albertans and other westerners rolled into Ottawa Tuesday for a mass protest against federal energy and environmental policies that has also

Five Canadian business stories to watch this week

Ottawa

Poloz speaks Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz will give a speech to the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal on Thursday. Poloz kept his

Smiths Falls-based Canopy Growth to have hemp CBD in U.S. as early as Q4

Ottawa

Canopy Growth Corp. expects to have CBD products in the U.S. where permissible as early as the fourth-quarter, but says the related hemp-production facilities it

Gatineau pot firm Hexo takes on $65M loan facility to finance expansions

Ottawa

Hexo is entering a $65-million credit loan facility with two major Canadian banks, giving the local pot producer extra green to finance its expansions at

Legal pot sends Smiths Falls-based Canopy Growth’s Q3 revenues skyrocketing

Ottawa

Canopy Growth Corp.’s revenue soared in its latest quarter on its first sales of recreational cannabis, but the licensed producer’s loss from operations widened. The

Invest Ottawa, partners to host International Women’s Week events in March

Ottawa

With the growing popularity of International Women’s Day events around Ottawa, a few local business leaders recently started asking the question, “Why just one day?”

Proposed working guide for new Official Plan imagines Ottawa’s economic future

City Hall

A staff report imagining the shifts Ottawa’s economy might see in the coming century could help to guide upcoming creation of the city’s new Official

Who’s winning federal contracts in Ottawa-Gatineau?

Ottawa

Inter Outaouais Inc. 164 Jean-Proulx Rd. Heavy truck tractor Buyer: DND $1,878,995 Mishkumi Technologies Inc. 101-560 Localle Way Project planner (human resource services) Buyer: PWGSC