
Following cannabis legalization, Canopy CEO Bruce Linton gets rock-star treatment at Ruckify launch
Crowd clamours for selfies and facetime with one of the pot industry’s most well-known executives.
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Following cannabis legalization, Canopy CEO Bruce Linton gets rock-star treatment at Ruckify launch
Crowd clamours for selfies and facetime with one of the pot industry’s most well-known executives.

Sheraton staffer leads Ottawa Tourism’s Stars of the City winners
Colette Latour wasn’t about to let a blackout keep her from being a shining example of customer service in the city’s tourism industry. The Sheraton

Watson faces legal challenge over blocking residents on Twitter
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson is the target of a test legal case that could prompt politicians all across the country to reconsider their use of

Who’s winning federal contracts in Ottawa and Gatineau?
Valcom Consulting Group Inc. 300-85 Albert St. ATESS Trenton / Technical engineering and maintenance services Buyer: DND $3,239,464 Randstad Interim Inc. 410-1600 Carling Ave. Informatics

Founder of iBIONICS among Ottawa entrepreneurs honoured for business leadership after age 50
After a diverse career that included stints as an engineering officer in the Canadian military and the owner of a communications agency, Suzanne Grant was

Canopy Growth buying U.S. hemp researcher in $425M deal
Canopy Growth Corp. has signed a deal to buy Ebbu Inc., a Colorado-based hemp researcher, in a stock-and-cash deal worth more than $425 million. Under the

Amazon favourite Instant Pot cooking up new inventions in Kanata
At a nondescript office in a Kanata North business park, Robert Wang is revolutionizing the way North Americans solve the nightly dilemma of what’s for

Ottawa Real Estate Show: LRT expected to raise demand for east-end office space
One of Ottawa’s largest developers and property managers says the launch of light rail has the potential to breathe new life into an often overlooked

Parliamentary bells will play on despite renos to Ottawa’s most famous landmark
In less than three months, the centrepiece on Parliament Hill will go dark for at least a decade. But thanks in part to the lobbying

Watson pledges to cap tax increases at 3%
With one week to go before Ottawa residents head to the polls, incumbent Mayor Jim Watson says he’ll limit property tax increases to three per
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