Ottawa

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Who’s winning federal contracts in Ottawa-Gatineau?

Ottawa

EllisDon Corp. 2680 Queensview Dr. Banting building lab renovation Buyer: PWGSC $2,068,000 Emerion 200-368 Dalhousie St. TBIPS application support of the Grants and Contributions Digital

Ottawa hemp firm LiveWell secures US$3M financing to cover acquisition costs

Ottawa

A local hemp and CBD extraction firm has tapped institutional investors for US$3 million to cover costs related to a recent merger. LiveWell Canada announced

Pot shop proposed for York Street in ByWard Market

Ottawa

A proposed cannabis store could take over the site of the Smoque Shack in Ottawa’s ByWard Market. An application under the name “Byward Market Cannabis”

Elgin merchants told to ‘plan for the worst, hope for the best’ on traffic closure

Retail

While snow fell among the barricades outside his Elgin Street bookstore in late January, Jim Sherman’s disposition couldn’t have been sunnier. “A year without cars

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?”