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The Kichesippi Beer Company closes tomorrow. What’s the outlook for other local brewers?

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Graham Richardson returns to CTV News, and Erin Benjamin joins the board of trade

Erin Benjamin will be applying her advocacy skills to a new role with the Ottawa Board of Trade starting next month, OBOT announced Thursday.

Ottawa office investment market will ‘see some trades in 2026,’ Colliers exec says

After a down year that saw no “investment-grade” properties change hands in 2025, the Ottawa office sales market is beginning to rebound, Colliers executive vice-president OIiver Tighe told an audience of commercial real estate brokers and other industry insiders Wednesday morning.
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The narrative surrounding the Canadian tech sector often focuses on boom-and-bust cycles, brain drain, or the historical demise of past giants. But the numbers tell a different story. Driven by evolutionary waves from telecommunications to software-as-a-service, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence, the national technology ecosystem has quietly produced remarkable long-term enterprise value. New research shows that Ottawa tech unicorns have produced at least one billion-dollar firm every single decade, making it the highest per-capita producer of unicorns in the country. Moreso, local tech ventures account for a staggering three-quarters of all-time wealth creation in Canadian tech history, driving $1.4 trillion in wealth over the past 36 years. In this episode of Techopia Live, OBJ publisher Michael Curran celebrates Ottawa Innovation Week by speaking with tech veteran Sasha Gera, chief operating officer of HealWell AI. Gera shares his research and insights from his newly launched ledger, Unicorn North, highlighting how Ottawa stacks up against other major Canadian cities and why it remains the most productive, distraction-free destination for building sustainable, hundred-year companies. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:22 Introducing Sasha Gera 14:45 Sponsor Segment 17:57 Innovation Week 25:15 Closing and What’s Ahead at OBJ For more on Ottawa’s tech and innovation scene, visit https://obj.ca/techopia Subscribe to Techopia’s weekly newsletter here: https://obj121.activehosted.com/f/5
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