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Rob Imbeault emerged from dark days to start every morning with a smile
Co-founder of Ottawa software powerhouse Assent Compliance has a new venture aimed at tackling the planet's growing food sustainability challenges.
After leading their ventures to new heights despite the pandemic, the founders of some of Ottawa’s top companies took time out to kick back, relax and celebrate their accomplishments on Monday night.
The 5,200-square-foot warehouse, located at 2764B Sheffield Rd., is positioned to serve not only Ottawa, but other nearby metropolitan areas, the company said in a news release.
The Happy Roots Foundation has dedicated $1 million to CHEO's work supporting infant and child mental health.
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From Roots to Canada Goose, Canadian retailers use collaborations to woo customers
"Collaborations let us leverage other people's creativity by allowing them to play around with our iconic outerwearpieces."- SPONSORED
A major project, with major impact: Ottawa’s new hospital to pump billions into city’s economy
Along with injecting nearly $2 billion into Ottawa’s economy, the new hospital will create more than 4,000 full-time jobs over the four-year project… Shopify launches Twitter partnership, tap to pay offering at product showcase
At a new, semi-annual showcase called Shopify Editions on Wednesday, the Ottawa e-commerce giant laid out more than 100 product updates made over the…
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Small business owners chat with Desjardins Group about opportunities and pain points.
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.
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WEBINAR Logging out: Demystifying an employee's right to disconnect
While workplace policies have been commonly described as “right to disconnect” policies, they do not create a freestanding “right to disconnect."
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Technology could help bring boat-loads of tourists to small communities along the St. Lawrence
Stephen Burnett thinks he has a strategy that will bring an influx of tourists to hard-hit communities along the St. Lawrence River by inviting cruise ships to send passengers ashore to engage with…
How The Perth Cheese Shop went from closing its doors, to expanding its space
For Meredith Salvian, owner and operator of The Perth Cheese Shop, it’s all about the customer experience: even if she has to close her shop doors to make that experience better.
$700 pie? It’s the country way
What is it with homemade pies of pretty much any flavour selling for hundreds of dollars at rural charity auctions?
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From here to there: Fast-growing Trexity lands $5M financing round
“For me, it’s global domination or nothing. I want it all. We can take this as far as we want to take it," said CEO Alok Ahuja.Cool relief: Hintonburg's Merry Dairy provides freezer space, generator to residents hit by storm
Popular ice cream parlour converted its truck into a mobile phone-charging unit and offered up space in its walk-in freezer for homeowners to store…
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Canada joins international agreement to help Indigenous businesses access new markets
Ng paid tribute to First Nations' businesses and said support would be offered by the government to help these companies, including those from Nunavut and remote communities, access international…
Inflation skyrockets to highest level in nearly 40 years as gas prices soar
The agency said its consumer price index in May rose 7.7 per cent compared with a year ago, its largest increase since January 1983 when it gained 8.2 per cent and up from a 6.8 per cent increase in…
Canadian employers willing to hire workers without direct experience, survey says
The research released today indicates that experience and education – once crucial to many positions – are becoming less important amid labour shortages.
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- This year marks the 25th edition of the awards, which have become widely recognized as the region’s most sought-after business accolade for people under the age of 40.
- "I think we're still embarrassed to admit how profoundly the pandemic has negatively affected mental health and driven people into addictions and other forms of crisis."
- How fitting that "Wabano" means "new beginnings" in Ojibwe during a time when the public is venturing back out into the world, knowing the pandemic is waning and life is returning to normal.
- SPONSOREDSmall business owners chat with Desjardins Group about opportunities and pain points.
- “It doesn’t end tonight; it starts tonight,” OBJ publisher Michael Curran told recipients. "If you’re a recipient here tonight, this is a cohort you belong to.