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Ottawa firm that helps retirement and long-term care homes design recreation programs and other activities for seniors says its revenues have risen 1,800 per cent since the start of the pandemic.

Ottawa firm that's pioneering a process of regrowing spinal cord tissue and other body parts using plant-based materials has attracted big-name investors to boost its R&D efforts.

"The outage is illuminating the general lack of competition in telecommunications in Canada," said Vass Bednar, executive director of McMaster University's master of public policy program.

CADlink Technology Corp. – whose products include specialized software that helps print personalized T-shirts, caps and other items – says deal will help it expand its global footprint.

Founder of growing 40-employee Ottawa-based company says deal “allows us to really offer the depth and breadth of services that we’re being asked for.”

Software enterprise is the only Ottawa company on new list of 35 high-growth Canadian tech firms with the best chance of reaching $1 billion in annual revenues based on current growth trends.

Kanata-based software firm said late Tuesday it posted sales of $17.5 million for the fiscal year ending March 31, up just four per cent from the previous year’s revenues of $16.8 million.

With the application process for the third cohort of SheBoot now closed, co-founding partners in the program, Invest Ottawa and Capital Angel Network (CAN), have turned their attention to sifting through submissions from a crop of “extremely high-calibre” candidates.

A blind business date blossomed into a flourishing collaboration when local businessman Paul Hindo joined forces with a quantum physicist to break into the world of cybersecurity.

Firm says Shopify's plan to augment founder Tobi Lütke's power in the e-commerce company only passed because of the support from an early company investor and director.