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Ottawa man designs website to help consumers find Canadian alternatives for many products

Ottawa designer Alistair Lane needed to buy a dehumidifier over the weekend, after the freeze and thaw of the last week flooded his basement. But as Canada deals with the fallout of a trade war with the U.S., he didn’t want to buy from an American company.

AI now an ‘expectation’ at Shopify, will factor into performance reviews, hiring: CEO

Shopify Inc. is doubling down on artificial intelligence with a series of new policies that make the technology a "fundamental expectation" for everyone working there.

Techopia Live: From Russia with love: The CapitalTek story

It’s a familiar story in Ottawa’s tech sector. An immigrant entrepreneur, brimming with technical prowess, settles in the city, scales a startup and achieves business success.

Ottawa robotics firm Mechatronic DS helping manufacturers cope with tariff fallout

A machine that makes omelettes? Picks scraps out of piles of lettuce? Etienne Poisson’s Ottawa startup Mechatronic DS has done it all before.

Don’t know what you’re doing with AI? Tell employees just that, one local consultant advises

“Am I going to lose my job to AI?” That’s the question on the minds of many workers, according to Ottawa consultant Andrea Greenhous, as companies adopt and refine their artificial intelligence strategies.

More than three-quarters of startups say tariffs will impact their business: survey

More than three-quarters of Canadian startups believe tariffs will impact their business, a new report found. The survey...

Telesat CEO remains ‘bullish’ on company’s future despite revenue slide in 2024

Telesat’s revenues fell 20 per cent in 2024 compared with the previous year, the Ottawa-based company reported...

Canadian startups focus on homegrown funding with U.S. relations strained

Tatiana Estevez was celebrating her fog water collection company Permalution  securing money in a fundraising round and...

Two Ottawa entrepreneurs develop entertainment scene app with support of nightlife commish

With the support of Ottawa’s nightlife commissioner, two local entrepreneurs have launched an app that not only...

Techopia Live @ Tech Tuesdays: Women Leading Tech as Angels and Founders

Techopia Live was on location for the special International Women's Day 2025 edition of TechTuesday, hosted by...

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