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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

Alexandra Suda named next CEO of National Gallery of Canada

Tourism

Alexandra Suda, a curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, has been named as the next director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada.

‘Devoted leader’: Queensway Carleton Hospital CEO Tom Schonberg passes away

Ottawa

Tom Schonberg, who led the Queensway Carleton Hospital through numerous expansions and renovations over 20 years at the helm, passed away this week

Ottawa airport traffic volume rises in January on strong international travel

Tourism

A record dumping of snow couldn’t keep planes on the ground in January as the Ottawa airport saw a slight increase in overall passenger volume

Sprott School of Business hires former Amazon exec, Oxford academic as new dean

Ottawa

Already preparing to move into a swanky new home, Carleton University’s business school is set to install a new leader with a glittering resumé. The

Can we shift that meeting? Oncoming storm forces cancellations across Ottawa

Ottawa

The anticipation of winter travel delays and disruptions is leading numerous Ottawa offices and post-secondary institutions to pre-emptively shut down Wednesday, with other employers advising