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- After six years at Nickelodeon’s studios in Burbank, Calif., Gerhard decided to leave sunny southern California for the Great White North
- Rocked by what its founder called a “perfect storm of circumstances,” Ottawa’s largest advertising agency has laid off more than half its workforce – including virtually its entire senior executive…
- OBOT's former leader is taking on a new advocacy role with an organization that lobbies on behalf of more than a quarter of a million businesses across Canada
- Canadian Business Growth Fund CEO and Ottawa native George Rossolatos says a lack of patient capital is condemning too many of this country’s startups to quick deaths
- Buoyed by new tenants and other attractions, regional shopping centres like Bayshore and Rideau Centre predict strong finish to 2019
- Ottawa-based online rental marketplace Ruckify is joining forces with a Calgary company that touts itself as 'the Airbnb of RV rentals'
- “We’re pretty disappointed with what they’ve come to the table with,” said the co-founder of a 40-person company that specializes in managing Airbnb rental properties
- Operators of Airbnb units and other short-term rental accommodations would be required to register with the city under the proposed rules.
- Ottawa needs to do better at telling the world about its unique attractions if it wants to be a contender in the escalating “war between cities” for the best and brightest workers
- In recognition of her myriad of contributions to Calian’s success, Gauthier is OBJ and the Ottawa Board of Trade’s 2019 CFO of the Year
- With many Kanata office buildings practically bursting at the seams thanks to a red-hot tech sector, two of the city’s biggest property owners are laying the groundwork for major new builds in the…
- Shares in Kinaxis got a healthy bump on Friday after the rapidly growing Kanata-based software firm announced it was raising its full-year guidance following a strong third quarter
- Ottawa-based Welch’s partnership with T.O. investment firm a sign of the times as mid-size firms expand offerings to compete with Big Four
- Kanata residents are stepping up with offers to donate funds to save the Kanata Golf and Country Club from being razed for a new residential development, the local councillor says
- Mark Goudie said the idea is to drive more traffic to Lansdowne on non-game days in the hope that people attending events will stick around to shop and eat, creating an economic “spinoff effect”
- The owners of the CFL’s Ottawa Redblacks, pro soccer’s Fury FC and junior hockey’s Ottawa 67’s are proposing to take over the operation of key public spaces at Lansdowne Park
- As the manager of the most important commercial properties in Ottawa’s most popular tourist district, Ashley Hopkins feels a certain responsibility to revitalize a neighbourhood she believes has lost…
- In her new role as Seaspan’s VP of corporate affairs and external communications, MacLeod will act as a liaison between the shipbuilder and its various federal government customers
- As we kick off small business week, OBJ sits down with a former IT executive who's finding a second career in coffee beans, specialty soap and family business
- Fengate Asset Management said this week it’s joining the latest phase of Regional Group’s Greystone Village development as a 'joint decision-maker' and investor
- A group of local businessmen said Wednesday it’s reached an agreement in principle to buy the struggling Ottawa Champions baseball club, though new league issues could put the team's next season in…
- 'Canada is breeding herbivores for United States carnivores,' David Ross told the crowd at the Mayor's Breakfast Series on Tuesday morning
- For all his contributions to health care in a career spanning nearly 40 years as a doctor and administrator, Kitts has been named the recipient of the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award
- With his firm developing new satellite technology that could revolutionize the way the internet is delivered, Telesat chief executive Dan Goldberg is finally getting the recognition he deserves
- Local business leaders told an aviation industry panel on Thursday they want faster, more direct travel to other parts of the world
- A cutting-edge radar system that can detect drones small enough to fit in the palm of a hand will be tested at Ottawa’s airport starting this fall
- Nearby residents vowed Tuesday to 'vigorously' fight the proposal to build up to 1,500 housing units on the site
- Mohammad Dourou has spent the past nine months renovating an old German church in Little Italy, crafting a new co-working space he hopes will be home to a bustling community of entrepreneurs
- A Toronto-based developer is looking to add to the growing wave of intensification near the new Confederation Line with a proposal to build a 30-storey mixed-use highrise next to Blair Station
- If re-elected, the federal Liberals will fund space for dozens of new startups to set up shop in Invest Ottawa’s facilities at Bayview Yards, Ottawa Centre MP Catherine McKenna pledged Wednesday
- He might no longer be in charge of the country’s largest cannabis firm, but Bruce Linton made one thing abundantly clear during a humorous and insightful keynote address to a business cro
- In a sport that’s traditionally been slow to embrace change, Joyel Singfield’s new job as general manager of the Royal Ottawa Golf Club is another sign of a game in transition
- A new generation of entrepreneurs is launching markets, mazes and other attractions catering to visitors looking to get away from it all
- A prime piece of downtown real estate a block from a new light-rail station is now in the hands of a Toronto-based developer that plans to construct three highrises containing nearly 900 residential…
- The man who helped spearhead the drive to merge Ottawa’s three chambers of commerce into one organization is leaving his post after more than six years as head of the city’s largest business group
- A local real estate brokerage has added an office building at a prominent intersection in the city’s south end to its growing portfolio as it continues to expand its footprint in Eastern Ontario
- With $750 million in holdings across the country, Bonnefield reaps benefits for both farmers and investors
- Shopify Inc. says it will buy fulfilment solutions company 6 River Systems Inc. in a US$450 million cash and share deal as it looks to push further into the warehousing and shipping side of online…
- Clothing reseller supplying recycled denim for global footwear giant's new line of Chuck Taylor All Stars
- IT firm sold to New York private equity firm in deal to help finance launch of new enterprise aimed at providing "virtual office space" to remote workers.
- Gowlings lawyer Lorraine Mastersmith and outgoing Quarterhill CFO Shaun McEwan announced this week they’ve purchased a majority stake in Carp-based winery Kin Vineyards
- In his well-established Ottawa firm's 50th year, Dan Goldberg is raising the bar for Telesat with an ambitious new satellite project
- National Capital Region embracing desk-for-hire trend as new wave of firms looks to cash in on growing number of itinerant workers
- Kanata’s Hazeldean Mall has been sold to new owners who are pledging to revitalize a property that’s still searching for a dominant anchor tenant more than four years after Target pulled
- Ottawa and other major Ontario cities outside the Greater Toronto Area are failing to draw their fair share of immigrants and need to attract more newcomers if they want to maintain their quality of…
- Jens-Michael Schaal is on a mission to sell companies from around the world on the merits of doing business in the capital – a sales pitch he's personally prepped to give
- In a bid to find new revenue streams, agricultural vendors turn to items such as ciders, preserves and other premade products
- Nearly 15 months after the Confederation Line was originally slated to be carrying passengers, Mayor Jim Watson made it official Friday: the east-west LRT route will be ready to roll on Saturday,…
- E-commerce powerhouse’s employees ‘improve themselves constantly’ by getting a crash course in retail at local stores
- Chief executive David Ross says the company will put the fresh funding towards its next generation of products, highlighting his excitement about 4K TV and cloud technologies
- A Toronto-based real estate investment firm has purchased a trio of prime Class-A office buildings in Westboro in a push to expand its footprint beyond the southern Ontario market
- With Lincoln Fields Shopping Centre set to be totally rebuilt, OBJ looks at whether community retail plazas still have staying power in a world of e-commerce and changing consumer buying habits
- Telesat expects its advanced satellite program to generate $1.2 billion over the next decade as part of a new partnership with the federal government
- The former military man has been a driving force in pushing for new approaches to learning at the 52-year-old post-secondary institution
- Westfest, the long-running and always-free neighbourhood music festival, will end its run due to a lack of sponsorship dollars
- Taggart Realty Management, which beat out five other bidders for the contract to build the new headquarters, expects to break ground on the project next spring
- RioCan and Killam open development aimed to capitalizing on new generation of transit-using tenants
- Vanessa Kanu's path to the C-suite of one of Ottawa's biggest companies has been filled with tough decisions, but she's today pretty certain about her choices
- A Montreal-based developer is launching its bid to expand beyond Quebec’s borders with ambitious plans to spend more than $300M on a trio of local rental apartment and mixed-use projects
- With major projects such as light rail on the go, the outlook for Ottawa’s heavy construction industry looks bright – but experts warn a labour shortage looms
- The Anglican Diocese wants to tear down a rectory in Bells Corners and replace it with a four-level mixed-use building as part of a plan to construct affordable housing units at church properties…
- An Ottawa councillor is calling for the city’s planning committee to be split into two bodies that deal with urban and suburban planning issues separately
- Fraser says he expects Killam to continue expanding its footprint in the capital region, praising its stable, government-driven economy and steady influx of new residents
- Researchers at a little-known Ottawa tech firm believe particles that are too small to be seen with the naked eye could be the next big thing in thwarting counterfeiters
- Just over a week after it announced it was closing its doors for good, an iconic Ottawa business has found a “white knight” to revive its venerable brand
- The ByWard Market BIA’s safety and security committee endorsed the pilot project at its latest meeting on Tuesday afternoon
- Buoyed by platforms such as Airbnb Experiences, a new wave of local entrepreneurs is catering to tourists who want to stray from the beaten path and see a different side of the capital
- The City of Ottawa is renegotiating its lease deal with pro baseball’s Ottawa Champions after the club fell more than $400,000 behind in rent payments at the city-owned 10,000-seat park on Coventry…
- Shopify jumped six spots to No. 15 on the Branham300 list of Canada’s top 250 ICT companies for 2019, the highest ranking for an Ottawa firm and the e-commerce juggernaut’s first appearance in the…
- Passing of pioneering Ottawa-based advocate leaves nation’s tech sector without ‘its voice’
- Canada Lands Co. is teaming up with an Aboriginal group on a plan that would see private developers build three mixed-use towers on a prime parcel of real estate just west of the Glebe
- Official say the Ottawa business community is “clamouring” for better transportation connections to Toronto, Montreal and the U.S.
- A major bike-share service’s sudden decision to pull out of the Ottawa-Gatineau market is “unfortunate” but won’t have a significant impact on the city’s tourism industry, a local official said Monday
- Zibi announces separate deal to supply office space to federal government
- A pair of Ottawa researchers are putting a spotlight on the barriers female business owners encounter when trying to grow their sales beyond Canada’s borders
- Mayor says he doesn't expect Sens owner Eugene Melnyk to be part of renewed development process
- The future of LeBreton Flats, major infrastructure projects such as a potential new interprovincial bridge and the revitalization of the ByWard Market are just some of the items on the ag
- 'Dedication, discipline, professionalism – all these things that you need to succeed in professional hockey you need in the business world as well.'
- An Ottawa entrepreneur is putting her acting chops to use bringing interactive experiences museums around the world
- A Quebec-based restaurant chain has bought the Ottawa region’s second-largest craft brewery in a bid to tap into the Ontario food and beer market
- Almonte-based cannabis transport firm set to challenge industry heavyweights Brink’s and GardaWorld after major acquisition
- With the available supply of industrial space in Ottawa at an all-time low and rents steadily rising, one of the region’s largest property owners has significantly boosted its portfolio with a major…
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- An Ottawa-based organization that aims to help grow Canada’s next generation of entrepreneurs has tapped a well-known local tech executive to be its new leader.
- The organization that runs the historic ByWard Market building says a $50,000 pilot project to convert a stretch of William Street into a pedestrian-only plaza is the latest step in its l
- Already under new ownership, Ottawa-based Espial Group is now preparing to make way for new leadership.
- Ottawa’s economy risks running out of room to grow – literally – if developers don’t step up soon to address a critical shortage of office space in the downtown core and Kanata, a promi
- Nick Noreau is on a mission to make Spartan Bioscience a household name in DNA testing.
- A local startup’s technology that helps soldiers zero in on suspected targets appears to be hitting its mark with potential military customers.
- It seems only fitting that Decisive Technologies and its sister firm, BriteSky Technologies, finished back-to-back on this year’s list of Ottawa’s fastest-growing companies.
- Saleh Taebi isn’t about to take his foot off the gas pedal in his quest to dominate the auto accessories online retail market.
- One of a multitude of Ottawa tech companies that have sprung up in the wake of Shopify’s rise to e-commerce superstardom, Arctic Leaf believes it’s ready to graduate from supporting playe
- A growing U.S. customer base helped propel Ottawa software firm Intouch Insight to record revenues in the first quarter of 2019, the company reported Friday.
- Despite enjoying revenue growth most other companies can only dream of, the founders of the Keynote Group took a good, long look in the mirror last year and determined big changes were in
- Less than a year after it launched a downtown accelerator aimed at taking local startups to “the next level,” Toronto-based OneEleven is closing its Ottawa office.
- Calian Group set another new record for revenues in the second quarter of fiscal 2019 while stretching its consecutive streak of quarterly profits to 70, the Kanata-based company announce
- Days after the City of Ottawa said it would go to court if necessary to prevent the Kanata Golf and Country Club from being redeveloped, the club’s owners say they have no update on what
- While all 13 stations on the Confederation Line have occupancy permits, more work still needs to be done on the vehicles themselves before light rail is ready to roll, OC Transpo boss Joh
- A Montreal developer is proposing a new highrise apartment complex in the heart of Ottawa’s burgeoning downtown “urban tech” district.
- The province’s decision to eliminate its funding to Ottawa Tourism is a “significant hit” that will force the local marketing organization to make tough spending choices, its leader said
- The irony in Lightship Security’s back story is not lost on Jason Lawlor.
- After racking up tens of millions of dollars in losses while it struggled to find a market niche, Ottawa cleantech firm Clearford Water Systems believes it’s finally tapped into the right formula t
- Ottawa video software provider Espial’s shift to a subscription-based model continued to pay off in the first quarter of 2019, with the company’s SaaS revenues doubling year-over-year as
- Fuelled by a strong local economy, passenger volumes and revenues at Ottawa’s airport soared to new heights in 2018 – but travellers hoping a spike in traffic to the United States will t
- Telesat’s revenues dipped slightly in the first quarter of fiscal 2019, a decline the Ottawa-based satellite communications company blamed on less demand for its short-term services to ot
- The Mandarin Oriental hotel in Kuala Lumpur is offering Martello Technologies’ potential clients the ultimate try-before-you-buy experience this week.
- An Ottawa company that makes a simulator that teaches workers how to repair and maintain factory equipment is bringing a whole new dimension to its products.
- Shopify touted the “encouraging” growth of its e-commerce platform in international markets Tuesday, after announcing its first-quarter 2019 revenues rose 50 per cent year-over-year to $3
- Three years ago, Joe Hickey was in the midst of an impressive career in engineering and sales that had included a stint as Nortel’s youngest vice-president.
- Ottawa-based unified communications service provider Mitel’s reported bid to acquire U.S.
- One of Ottawa’s largest class-A office complexes is revamping its lobby and meeting spaces and redesigning some of its suites in an effort to respond to changing tenant tastes and modernize the bui
- Patrick Houston knows all too well how quickly fate can deliver a knockout punch to a promising public company.
- The Bronson Centre is teaming up with the owners of a Toronto concert hall in a bid to turn the non-profit Ottawa corporation’s downtown theatre space into a must-visit venue for touring
- Ottawa entrepreneur Brad Campeau’s bid to jump on the cannabis tourism bandwagon is no longer just an April Fool’s joke.
- Sitting in a brightly lit restaurant at Ottawa’s newest downtown hotel property on Monday afternoon, Morguard CEO K. Rai Sahi was beaming like the father of a newborn.
- With the thermometer already reading a balmy 15 degrees Celsius Wednesday at 9 a.m.
- More than 1,000 homes could be put back on Ottawa’s housing market if the city cracked down on owners who have converted their properties into “ghost hotels” on Airbnb, a new report sugge
- When Katie Hession first started posting photos related to her “favourite F-words” – family, food, fashion, fitness and fun times – on her Instagram account a couple of years back, she n
- As the head of the region’s main hotel industry association, Steve Ball sees plenty of room for growth in a local hospitality industry that enjoyed its best year ever in 2017 and followed
- A rapidly growing eastern Ontario security firm that specializes in serving the cannabis sector has acquired a Toronto-based armoured transport company in a move it hopes will set the sta
- Ottawa’s aggregate home price surpassed Calgary’s for the first time ever in the first quarter of 2019 – making the capital the fourth-most-expensive housing market in the country, Royal
- After shelling out tens of millions of dollars more than it originally anticipated to get the football stadium and hockey arena at Lansdowne Park back in game shape, the Ottawa Sports and
- After buying three Canadian companies last year, Calian Group decided to venture a little farther afield for its first acquisition of 2019.
- Riding a wave of 27 consecutive years of revenue growth, Ross Video just keeps findi
- An Ottawa-based biotech firm that makes a line of natural health products designed to replace antibiotics in livestock feed has announced a multimillion-dollar funding round it says will
- During a brief break from the frenzy of activity that always surrounds a new restaurant opening, OCCO Kitchen owner and head chef Mark Steele flashes the grin of an entrepreneur who’s found the ide
- A southern Ontario enterprise software firm has agreed to acquire Ottawa’s Espial Group in an all-cash deal valued at $56.5 million, the two companies announced Monday.
- What a lot of winter-weary Ottawa residents might consider to be the city’s biggest curse – its weather – is a godsend for the organizations behind a cutting-edge new facility for testing autonomou
- Apps that do things such as alerting drivers when a parking spot opens up nearby make life easier for urban dwellers, proponents say – but some critics wonder what will happen to individ
- A Toronto-based developer has announced plans to build an 18-storey retirement residence on a prime piece of downtown real estate owned by the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa.
- On a plot of land that once served as a stark reminder of how quickly a promising tech sector can go bust, a new facility is paving the way for cutting-edge products that could fundamentally change
- Growing up in Newfoundland, Anne Robinson had a passion for music – but the practical side of her brain convinced her that numbers, not notes, would be a more likely route to prosperity.
- Last summer, Instant Pot creator Robert Wang told OBJ his goal was to “build a brand that will last more than 50-plus years.”
- Ottawa’s Kinaxis cracked the $150-million mark in annual revenues for the first time in its history in fiscal 2018, but its bottom line took a hit as the company continued to ramp up its
- The volatile nature of its patent licensing business helped drive Ottawa-based Quarterhill back into the red in fiscal 2018, but the firm said Thursday that new growth opportunities combi
- Rising demand for resources and workers helped push the price tag for Stage 2 of Ottawa’s light-rail project to a stunning $4.66 billion, city officials told a special council meeting on
- Martello Technologies’ “build-and-buy” growth strategy is bearing fruit, company officials said Tuesday after the Kanata software firm reported a 136 per cent year-over-year increase in t
- While snow fell among the barricades outside his Elgin Street bookstore in late January, Jim Sherman’s disposition couldn’t have been sunnier.
- Already preparing to move into a swanky new home, Carleton University’s business school is set to install a new leader with a glittering resumé.
- Stittsville entrepreneur Tim Maxwell’s business is all about giving customers an edge over their competition. Or, more precisely, two edges.
- Ottawa’s Calian Group stretched its streak of profitable quarters to 69 in the first earnings period of fiscal 2019, the company reported Wednesday – though its bottom line took a hit du
- An old sports adage says lessons learned in defeat pave the way for future victories.
- Michael Hapke has a perfect vantage point from which to witness a dramatic shift in the way Canadians are borrowing money to buy homes.
- When Scott MacFabe joined BluMetric as CEO last March, he said his job was to accelerate the Ottawa cleantech firm’s ascent in the marketplace.
- The organization that owns the Ottawa Redblacks, Fury and 67’s is teaming up with the Ottawa Champions baseball club in an effort to boost the minor-league ball team’s ticket sales and co
- Group Germain Hotels has landed on what it thinks is the perfect location to make its 20-20 business vision a reality: the Ottawa airport.
- Buoyed by the pending arrival of light rail and more direct flights from the United States, Ottawa is expected to welcome 2.4 per cent more overnight visitors this year than it did in 201
- By her own admission, Heidi Hauver gets bored easily. But she doesn’t see that becoming an issue at her new gig any time soon.
- John Nelligan’s genius in a courtroom was such that his one of his longtime colleagues looked to a completely different arena for an appropriate analogy to describe his prodigious talent.
- Almost exactly a decade after Nortel Networks filed for bankruptcy protection, Jonathan Calof still can’t help but wonder what might have been.
- During a stopover in Ottawa in late summer, Toronto-based condo developer Brad Lamb made it clear he believed condos were a com
- A Toronto-based company has scooped up a pair of residential complexes near the University of Ottawa in a bid to establish a local foothold in what it considers one of the last untapped n
- Already the owner of Ottawa’s fastest-growing accounting firm on OBJ’s 2018 list, David DiNardo isn’t taking his foot off the gas pedal in his pursuit of an even bigger share of the expan
- It’s opened its doors to the King of Rock and Roll, the Queen Mother and Winston Churchill over the past century, but practically no ordinary Canadian has been inside Ottawa’s former train station
- Ottawa software maker Corel got into the Christmas shopping spirit again this week, adding new products to its stable with an acquisition for the second December in a row.
- As real estate wins go, a one-million-square-foot warehouse for the world’s largest e-commerce retailer is headline-grabbing stuff.
- An Ottawa-based provider of managed IT services and senior care technology now has a presence from coast to coast after acquiring a Vancouver firm earlier this week.
- The managers of the Sun Life Financial Centre think they’ve found the perfect recipe to add a bit of spice to a block of office towers that has traditionally turned into a ghost town on w
- Ottawa city council should allow private cannabis retailers to set up shop in the capital once the stores become legal next April, municipal staff say in a new report released Wednesday.
- From his office in what used to be known as “Animation Alley,” Chris Wightman sees an industry drawing momentum from a world-class talent pool and state-of-the-art facilities.
- Even as it helps clients around the world break down technological barriers to the swift flow of information, Ottawa’s VideoShip faces its own share of hurdles that can bog down communica
- Less than a week after it announced it will delist from the TSX and start trading on the Canadia
- After more than eight years at its west-end location, local craft brewing pioneer Kichesippi Beer Co. will soon be on the move.
- As someone who likes to think of himself as a glass – make that cup – half-full kind of guy, Happy Goat Coffee co-owner Ahmet Oktar is trying to put a positive spin on the city’s plan t
- Despite landing $60 million in funding over the past five years, Ottawa tech firm Ranovus is anything but a household name in its home base.
- Liam Mooney’s efforts to become a leaner business owner – literally and figuratively – have prompte
- When the retail behemoth known as Walmart took Canada by storm in the mid-1990s, it sent shudders down the spines of countless homegrown store owners who feared they’d be trampled in its
- In a Q&A with OBJ, new Ottawa Senators chief operating officer Nicolas Ruszkowski and chief marketing officer Aimee Deziel discuss the NHL franchise’s efforts to attract a broader audience to t
- Concluding an interview about yet another headline-grabbing piece of positive news to come out of his company, Calian CEO Kevin Ford jokingly promised Monday that things would slow down a
- Rushing between meetings in Los Angeles on a late October morning, Ottawa’s CEO of the Year paused to reflect on an opportunity lost.
- San Francisco-based ride-hailing service Lyft has enlisted a big-name local entrepreneur in its drive to challenge Uber for supremacy in the Ottawa market.
- A major redevelopment project that will see $25 million in renovations to the Ottawa international airport terminal and a new hotel next door is yet another sign that the capital’s tourism sector k
- The co-founder of one of Ottawa’s leading tech companies is calling on the Ontario government to save the province’s basic income pilot, arguing the plan deserves a chance to show whether it can pu
- The pending arrival of light rail is fuelling a wave of new development applications and changing the way builders view future projects, speakers told a business crowd Wednesday at the Shaw Centre.
- The consortium of developers behind the trio of highrises proposed for 900 Albert St.
- During a speaking engagement at the Brookstreet Hotel last month, Calian boss Kevin Ford casually mentioned he’d taken a tour of Regina the week before.
- Global accounting giant Ernst & Young has acquired a leading Ottawa consulting firm in a bid to bolster the services it offers to clients in the government and non-profit sectors.
- As the co-founder of a company that delivers real-time business data to customers, Allan Wille puts a lot of stock in metrics.
- Ottawa-based Espial Group made only slight headway in its effort to grow revenues in the third quarter as the video software provider continued its drive to convert customers to a subscription-base
- Executives from a trio of local companies with global customers delivered a straightforward message on opening night at TiECon: Ottawa has the technology – and the talent – to take on the world.
- Allan Wille has stepped down as head of Klipfolio, handing the reins of the software firm he co-founded 17 years ago to a seasoned tech executive in a bid to speed up the company’s growth
- A prominent Ottawa architect has spent his own time and money to come up with a plan that he says will revitalize the ByWard Market in part by taking cars off several major streets and turning them
- A Quebec-based investor’s partnership with a leading commercial real estate company to buy a major downtown office complex marks the insurance firm’s first steps into what observers are calling Ott
- Ottawa’s McMillan has brought a local video production firm in-house, deepening its talent pool as it builds a global client base.
- Not even another delay in the launch of Ottawa’s $2.1-billion LRT system is enough to dampen the spirits of OC Transpo boss John Manconi when he talks about how the new line will benefit the local
- After initially turning down Terry Matthews’ offer to join Mitel as its chief financial officer in 2001, Steve Spooner just couldn’t say no the second time Matthews came calling.
- Delayed though it might be, the much-anticipated arrival of the Confederation Line is one more sign Ottawa is growing up – literally and figuratively – from a business perspective.
- Crowd clamours for selfies and facetime with one of the pot industry's most well-known executives.
- A marketer by trade, Spencer MacPherson was making extra money on the side as a real estate photographer when an idea for a bigger money-making venture became as vivid in his mind as a 3D
- An Ottawa company has joined forces with a major local health-care organization to offer technology that will alert caregivers when users suffer medical emergencies.
- 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 dinner.
- For most Ottawa tech companies, a multimillion-dollar acquisition would be their version of a Stanley Cup championship.
- When Roger Greenberg succeeded his uncle Irving as CEO of Minto Group in 1991, he knew running the family business was never going to be a one-person job.
- Kevin Ford has a theory for why more than seven in 10 mergers and acquisitions fail, and it has little to do with profit margins or revenue projections.
- Of the multitude of extra-curricular activities Bruce Linton engaged in as a student at Carleton University, smoking pot wasn’t one of them.
- Ottawa’s largest independent commercial real estate brokerage has been sold to a U.S.-based industry giant.
- Ottawa’s mayoral challengers clashed over how to boost public safety in the ByWard Market and the need to regulate online accommodation platforms such as Airbnb during an all-candidates debate Mond
- A Quebec-based developer is reviving plans for a 27-storey mixed-use highrise on Metcalfe Street that would incorporate elements of the Art Deco-style heritage building currently on the s
- An Ottawa tech firm that provides a cloud-based platform to quickly process insurance applications using artificial intelligence has landed US$20 million in venture capital financing.
- In nearly two decades as an executive with the Ottawa Senators, Erin Crowe got used to regularly being the only woman in the boardroom.
- The parent company of grocery giant Sobeys announced Monday it was acquiring homegrown Ottawa food retailer Farm Boy, leaving a bad taste in the mouths of some customers of the much-rever
- Buoyed by crowd-pleasing tourist attractions such as the Canada Science and Technology Museum’s Art of the Brick exhibit, some local hotels say they enjoyed a better summer season than th
- In many ways, fellow Ottawa firms Xactly Design & Advertising and Grade A consulting are two sides of the same coin.
- An April Fools’ Day prank made it crystal clear to Brad Campeau that Ottawa is ready to embrace cannabis-driven tourism with open arms.
- A group of Ottawa business and community leaders is calling for more “transparency” in the LeBreton Flats redevelopment process after six in 10 residents in a recent poll said they are sk
- With the specifics of the Ontario government’s plan to privatize the sale of cannabis still a little hazy, Joël Dubois knows he has his work cut out for him this winter.
- A man who always wears his heart on his sleeve, Kevin Ford couldn’t hide his emotions during an open house Wednesday evening at Calian Group’s new headquarters in Kanata South.
- A non-profit organization with a self-declared mission to “provide leadership in the responsible use of land” in urban areas is preparing to launch an Ottawa chapter.
- A U.S.-based software firm with deep roots in Ottawa has been acquired by Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson.
- Never afraid to express his opinions, Brad Lamb is characteristically blunt in his assessment of his latest condo-building exercise in Ottawa.
- Gatineau council’s decision to put a heritage designation on the downtown Museum District has effectively slammed the door on a controversial plan to build a $400-million mixed-use highrise complex
- After decades of false starts, failed proposals and plenty of plot twists, the push to build a facility where major movies and TV shows could be filmed in Ottawa moved a step closer to re
- In more than 30 years as an employee at Carleton University, Larry McCloskey has seen the percentage of students with disabilities steadily rise.
- Sabra Ripley is getting good vibes about Ottawa’s push to become more of a music city.
- On the heels of another acquisition, record revenues and a profit streak that stretches back almost to the beginning of the millennium, Kanata’s Calian Group is on the move.
- A tightening Class-A office market and the exodus of federal government departments from the core are pushing landlords of downtown properties to “get creative” with revamping Ottawa’s aging stock
- Few people have had a better vantage point from which to witness the maturation of Ottawa’s music industry than Mark Monahan.
- After spending the better part of the past five years exercising his entrepreneurial muscles, Pablo Srugo has decided it’s time to change up his business-building regimen.
- Another prominent hotel chain is planning to add to the ByWard Market’s stable of accommodations with a new lodging near the Andaz Hotel.
- An optimistic-sounding Eugene Melnyk said he’s “very confident” that the RendezVous LeBreton group’s ambitious plan to redevelop LeBreton Flats will go forward after a closed-door meeting
- The drive to bring Ottawa’s chambers of commerce together under one roof has finally succeeded.
- Fresh off another quarter that saw its revenues and profits continue to rise, Ottawa’s Calian Group has acquired a Calgary-based company with an e
- Big customer wins in the automotive vertical and continued expansion into European markets are revving up growth at Ottawa-based Kinaxis (
- After making a name for itself in an obscure field of networking technology, a Kanata firm is hoping a pivot to a higher-profile space and millions of dollars in new funding will help tak
- A bold plan to reshape Ottawa’s skyline with a trio of mixed-use towers
- An Ottawa company that makes equipment designed to boost the motor skills of patients suffering from brain and spinal cord injuries or diseases such as multiple sclerosis has been sold to
- The two main airlines that serve Canada’s North have announced a plan to merge into a single carrier based in Ottawa.
- A consortium of local developers made headlines this week with an ambitio
- One of Ottawa’s leading corporate advisory consulting firms has added a high-profile executive to its team with the aim of grabbing a bigger share of the business valuation market.
- A consortium of developers that wants to build three mixed-use towers at the intersection of the Trillium and Confederation LRT lines is setting its sights even higher, raising the height
- Jason Burggraaf is no stranger to the homebuilding industry.
- The city’s planning committee Tuesday gave the go-ahead for Claridge Homes to build five mixed-use towers ranging from 25 to 45 storeys on the eastern edge of LeBreton Flats, despite conc
- The leader of one of Ottawa’s best-known companies says the time has come for the iconic food retailer to step up its digital game.
- For the past four seasons, Bernie Ashe’s 24-7 responsibilities meant Redblacks game nights were work nights for the chief executive of the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group.
- An Ottawa company that provides cloud-based phone and internet services to businesses has acquired a Toronto-based competitor with the aim of expanding its footprint in the lucrative sout
- From his vantage point in the capital’s newest startup hub, Brad Forsyth has a bird’s-eye view of exactly the kind of opportunities he hopes lie ahead for the tenants under his roof.
- A local entrepreneur believes a powder made of fine aluminum particles is the raw material that will build Ottawa’s next billion-dollar company.
- Small manufacturers such as craft breweries, micro-distilleries and furniture makers will soon find it easier to set up shop in busy retail districts after city council adopted a staff pr
- Like many a gifted entrepreneur, Paul Taggart had an uncanny knack for seeing business opportunities in places most others never would have thought to look.
- Members of Ottawa’s two largest chambers of commerce have voted nearly unanimously to merge their operations into a single organization.
- A boutique Ottawa law firm that caters to small and medium-sized businesses is joining forces with a Calgary firm in a bid to broaden its expertise and raise its market profile.
- After seven years of exponential growth, Ottawa’s Fullscript says a merger with a U.S.-based competitor is just what the doctor ordered to ensure its future success.
- Kanata-based Calian Group is keeping its foot on the gas pedal in its aggressive drive to grow through acquisitions, announcing Monday it has snapped up local IT security firm Secure Technologies.
- With their sights clearly fixed on shoring up the business side of their operations, the Ottawa Senators have hired a veteran communications and marketing expert to be the club's chief operating of
- An Ottawa firm that makes diagnostic tools for commercial and military aircraft is part of a group of Canadian companies that will receive nearly $50 million in federal funding to develop new techn
- At an industrial park in south-end Ottawa, robot maker Icor Technology is giving new meaning to the phrase “the long arm of the law.”
- The momentum Ottawa’s tourism industry gained during a record-breaking Canada 150 year appears to be carrying over into the first few mo
- One of Ottawa’s largest real estate firms says it plans to spin off part of its residential portfolio into a new publicly traded real estate investment trust.
- An ever-expanding web of government red tape isn’t usually thought of as a strong catalyst for business growth.
- His firm’s cutting-edge video surveillance software has captured the attention of high-profile investors and an expanding base of customers, but Solink CEO Mike Matta is not about to rest
- When Darren Anthony, Kristian Firth and Caleb White met up for beers after work one day in the spring of 2015, it was more than just a casual get-together for the former colleagues in the
- When Sean Lundy’s dad, Michael, launched the construction firm that bears his name a half-century ago, he embraced a simple philosophy that had profound consequences for the company: Grea
- Calian Group continued an impressive financial streak and set a new standard for quarterly revenues in the second quarter of fiscal 2018, the company said this week.
- Claridge Homes is proposing a new 19-storey structure at its Andaz hotel property in the ByWard Market that would include 136 additional units and a 3,600-square-foot ballroom that would
- Like a young, expanding family, Ottawa HR and recruiting firm Keynote Group considers moving into a new home to be one of its defining
- While Lisgar Collegiate’s 175th anniversary reunion this weekend will showcase the talents of distinguished alumni such as impressionist Rich Little and musician Valdy, it’s a good bet that Adam Ne
- It’s only fitting that a businessman whose merchandise is played on turntables says his product line has come full circle after four decades.
- With an eye to reducing his role in the industry, veteran Ottawa restaurateur Ion Aimers has turned over one of his Centretown holdings to some familiar faces.
- A Gatineau startup that manufactures tempered and laminated glass has been given $2.5 million in loans from government agencies and the Business Development Bank of Canada to help fund it
- Music City, Canada? If Jeff Leiper has his way, that will be Ottawa one day – and the region’s economy, he says, will be stronger for it.
- In her former job at Health Canada, Renee Ellison had a front-row seat to witness the initial growth of Canada’s budding medical marijuana industry.
- A Toronto-based startup accelerator that has spawned success stories such as online investment management service Wealthsimple is expanding to Ottawa later this year.
- Nicki Bridgland still remembers the summer night in 2003 when her bold decision to leave the fast-paced corporate world and launch a new sports and fitness venture in Ottawa really hit ho
- Fresh off a spate of acquisitions and a $15-million financing round, Ottawa’s CannaRoyalty Wednesday announced a five-fold year-over-yea
- After spending decades living the nomadic lifestyle so typical of a top-level hotel manager, Denis Gilles feels like he’s finally where he’s meant to be.
- In three decades in the leasing business, Stan Humphreys has had a front-row seat to witness the evolution of Ottawa’s commercial real estate market.
- He’s a Grey Cup champion, a two-time CFL all-star and one of the most recognizable sports figures in the nation’s capital.
- After more than two decades as an executive in the environmental engineering sector south of the border, Scott MacFabe was looking for the right offer to lure him back home.
- Claridge Homes has unveiled plans to build five mixed-use towers ranging from 25 to 45 storeys in the next phase of its development at t
- A Gatineau firm that supplies raw material for the burgeoning jet biofuel market has landed a $12-million financing round with the aim of continuing its aggressive global expansion.
- An Ottawa tech firm that helps colleges and universities around the world deliver discounted software to students has been sold to a Calgary-led group of investors.
- As startup-in-ascent metaphors go, they don’t get more on-the-nose than Qantas Flight 96 from Los Angeles to Melbourne on Jan. 28.
- Owners of a pair of buzzworthy fashion boutiques, Katie Frappier and Regine Paquette epitomize the growing role of women in the Canadian economy.
- After nearly two decades of shuttling back and forth between Ottawa and Toronto building wireless communications firm CellWand into a national force, Nick Quain is turning his attention t
- Another familiar name is poised to enter the race for councillor in Kanata North, setting the stage for what could be one of the most fiercely contested campaigns in this fall’s municipal
- While saying the federal Liberals deserve credit for showing “some restraint on spending,” Parliament’s former budget watchdog told a business audience in Ottawa Wednesday the government
- A multimillion-dollar proposal to build a nine-storey mixed-use development next to the former All Saints Anglican Church in Sandy Hill is a big step closer to reality after the city’s pl
- After fighting an uphill battle with the weather for most of the season, a pair of Outaouais ski resorts got a ray of financial sunshine late last week.
- Perhaps better than anyone in the city of Ottawa, Jim Durrell can appreciate many residents’ reluctance to believe there will be an NHL
- Two of the capital’s brightest entrepreneurial stars are now business partners in a pair of ventures they project will each be generating millions of dollars in revenues before the year i
- Ottawans who were captivated last summer by the mechanical creatures of La Machine might not have to wait too long for a return visit i
- Already known for its branding and marketing work with global clients such as Microsoft and Siemens, Ottawa’s McMillan agency
- While Canadian athletes have shown plenty of dominance on the world stage at the Olympics, a homegrown company that’s playing a major role at the Games is having an Own the Podium moment
- Ottawa Tourism has unveiled a new series of promotional videos that’s as notable for what it doesn’t show as for what it does.
- To those who think Canada’s capital is a graveyard for music venues and businesses that cater to them, Byron Pascoe has a message: the industry in Ottawa is alive and well.
- It might seem like a bit of a leap for a career banker to take on the task of revitalizing the ByWard Market, but Jeff Darwin has jumped in with both feet.
- Ottawa’s robust economy helped dramatically cut the number of unsold housing units in the region over the first three quarters of 2017, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.
- More than a decade after the closure of Chesterville’s Nestle plant rocked the Eastern Ontario town, a new group of investors is sowing the seeds of an economic revival inside the former chocolate
- Looking back, Mark Goudie can’t help but get the feeling he was destined to do big things at Lansdowne Park.
- The city’s first legalized marijuana grow operation could eventually create up to 800 jobs in rural south Ottawa if the proposal gets the go-ahead from city council and Health Canada, one of the ex
- Chris Knight hopes the new television studio he’s just built to serve his booming food network could set the table for a resurgence in O
- Ottawa now has a state-of-the-art TV production studio to call its own, but the man who built it says the city is still a long way from landing a sound stage that will attract big-budget Hollywood
- The benefit of pulling together a region-wide bid outweighs the disappointment, say those who sought to woo the Seattle-based tech giant.
- The original quarterback of the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group’s front office is calling it quits.
- A global leader in artificial intelligence software that aims to thwart financial crimes such as money-laundering says it is gaining “incredible” momentum in the fast-growing market niche thanks to
- Michael Crockatt calls the Canada 150 celebrations a “great gift” that made 2017 a r
- In a town where the federal government has been the dominant tenant in commercial real estate seemingly forever, Michael Church and his
- For 50 years, Locomotive 6400 has been an iconic symbol of a bygone era in Canadian transportation for visitors to the Canada Science and Technology Museum.
- As far as Ian Bingeman is concerned, it’s not a contradiction to believe charities should behave more like businesses.
- Selling African-made honey from an office in Ottawa might not seem like the most conventional path to business success.
- Bed-and-breakfasts will be able to avoid a new four per cent tax on guest accommodations, but Ottawans who rent out rooms on platforms such as
- For a small Ottawa software firm in a nascent industry, Solink is making quite a name for itself in the North American investment community.
- When Christina Tessier started her new job as head of the Canada Science and Technology Museum
- It turns out Rachel Homan and her teammates weren’t the only big local winners at the Roar of the Rings Olympic curling trials.
- Ottawa-based cybersecurity firm Titus has quietly built itself into a force to be reckoned with.
- Two well-known west-end Ottawa printing companies have inked a deal to join forces.
- After an outcry from bed and breakfast owners who say a mandatory four per cent hotel tax could drive them out of business, a city committee voted Tuesday to buy more time to look at exem
- A Gatineau-based developer is diving into the red-hot Ottawa rental market with a plan for a nine-storey apartment building in the heart of Chinatown.
- Even news that a major condo project near Edmonton’s new NHL rink is being scrapped isn’t enough to dampen the spirits of the arena’s point man at the city.
- An Ottawa company that finances and invests in marijuana enterprises is ramping up its presence in the world’s largest cannabis market, announcing this week it is acquiring a pair of Cali
- In its never-ending quest to breathe life into Sparks Street, the city is asking residents, business owners, community associations and gov
- When Jerry Tomberlin arrived at Carleton University’s
- Buoyed by a recent contract renewal that could be worth $1 billion over the next 12 years, Ottawa’s Calian Group called its financial po
- With thousands of visitors set to flock to Ottawa for this month's Grey Cup festivities, it was only fitting that the man who did more than anyone else to bring the championship game to t
- The man who did more than perhaps anyone else to bring CFL football in Ottawa back from the dead can’t remember a time when the game wasn’t part of his life.
- An upstart Ottawa software company is testing an app it says could one day make all those photo ID cards jamming up your wallet a thing of the past.
- A major U.S.
- The man dubbed “the Godfather of Canadian weed” figures he knows an up-and-coming medical marijuana venture when he sees one.
- If it’s possible to sum up a person’s essence in a single image, Sandra Cote just might have done it with her photo of Kevin Ford.
- Millennials demand more transparency from their employers than previous generations, a trend that’s changing how companies are managed, a group of thirtysomething CEOs told a business cro
- A local tech company that has developed a cutting-edge device aimed at thwarting terrorism and corporate espionage has landed $5 million in venture capital from one of the city’s top inve
- Thanks to a federal hiring spree, millions of tourists flocking to Canada 150 celebrations and an LRT-fuelled construction boom, Ottawa-Gatineau’s economy is set to enjoy its best two-year stretch
- As partners in one of Ottawa’s leading public relations firms, Caitlin Kealey and Allyson Chisnall are usually the ones asking other pe
- A self-driving car made its way down a public street in Kanata on Thursday afternoon – a Canadian first that puts Ottawa in the driver’s seat when it comes to being an autonomous vehicle
- After selling the chain of fitness boutiques he founded a decade ago, Jean-Luc Boissonneault spent most of this year travelling the worl
- Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business will be getting a state-of-the-art, 100,000-square-foot new home in the heart of campus
- It’s a rare entrepreneur whose name alone would be enough to convince some of Ottawa’s most astute businessmen to pour their hard-earned dollars into bringing CFL football back to the cap
- If Calian employees needed any more reason to celebrate during the firm’s fiscal year-end party last Friday night at the Hilton Lac-Leam
- A new program that will see local startups tap directly into the computing power of Big Blue to develop cutting-edge technologies in fields such as artificial intelligence and big-data analytics ma
- The head of Ottawa’s hotel association is renewing his call for tighter regulations on Airbnb and services like it after a new study revealed the vast majority of hosts are turning their entire pro
- The record-breaking $480-million sale of Constitution Square is “a harbinger of things to come” for Ottawa’s commercial real estate market as investors get ready to ride light rail’s momentum, a ne
- Jerry Popowich remembers the day he told his high school guidance counsellors in Thunder Bay he wanted to draw animated cartoons for a living.
- With the Equifax scandal and other high-profile corporate security breaches making headlines around the world, an Ottawa firm believes its “passwordless” digital authentication technology is an ide
- Porter Airlines is boosting its presence at Ottawa International Airport with non-stop flights to Florida.
- Elliott Simcoe is one of Ottawa’s busiest patent agents, though you’d never know it by looking at his office inbox.
- With a task force working on a bid to bring Amazon’s second headquarters to the capital, Ottawa’s top planning guru said Tuesday it’s time for the city to step up its game when it comes to going af
- In the midst of what’s looking like a banner year for Ottawa’s largest downtown convention facility, the Shaw Centre is already stepping
- Ottawa is not known as a hub for global air traffic, but that hasn’t stopped a south-end aerospace firm from becoming a household name in the aircraft industry.
- A consortium of investors closed the largest real estate transaction in Ottawa’s history Monday, buying the Constitution Square downtow
- Company's cutting-edge proposal-writing software earns company coveted spot in Silicon Valley’s 500 Startups accelerator
- Though his attention was focused on his firm’s newest store in Edmonton, Pet
- A Kanata firm that makes transistors that help electric and autonomous vehicles run more efficiently has landed millions in funding from one of the world’s leading automakers.
- Faced with the departure of its co-founder and CEO while in the midst of a product pivot, The Better Software Company has decided the bo
- One of Ottawa’s most prolific serial entrepreneurs is stepping away from the top leadership role at the software firm he launched three years ago.
- It’s probably safe to say that few people, if any, know more about the inner workings of the Brookstreet Hotel than Nyle Kelly.
- A major Ottawa real estate investor has purchased a stake in a proposed three-tower mixed-use development at the intersection of the Trillium and Confederation light-rail lines, calling t
- Little did Andrew Waitman know that a casual conversation with a boxing buddy at the gym less than three years ago would change the cou
- While the capital’s new generation of technology companies focuses largely on software, Kanata startup Ranovus is making its mark in a
- A group led by Montreal developer Canderel is close to purchasing one of Ottawa’s marquee class-A office complexes, OBJ has learned – marking what would be among the biggest loca
- When Ottawa 2017 executive director Guy Laflamme was seeking a partner to help pull o
- Ottawa-based Ackroo posted record revenues in the second quarter, moving the firm closer to its goal of becoming cash-flow positive.
- As far as summer jobs that look good on a resume go, “CEO of a Fortune 500 company” has some pretty serious cachet.
- David Segal has a major beef with the fast food business.
- The latest addition to Ottawa’s innovation ecosystem is giving a whole new meaning to the term “cutting-edge technology.”
- Shares of Ottawa-based Mitel Networks rose more than seven per cent on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Thursday following the company's announcement that it was purchasing long-time acquisi
- 2002 CEO of the Year remembered for "incredible ability to get people onto his team"
- Ottawa’s Assent Compliance has made a habit of doing things a little differently than most software companies.
- An Ottawa builder’s revamped plan to build three mixed-use towers at a coveted downtown development site could include a supermarket, a consultant who worked on the proposal says.
- The Innovation Centre at Bayview Yards has received a $1.3-million boost to help fund services such as
- Attention, visitors: There is indeed still room at the inn this summer.
- A new study that shows fewer than one in 10 small and medium-sized Canadian enterprises does business with the federal government should be a wakeup call to companies looking for avenues
- Despite spending most of his life in the United States, Ed Kennedy feels a strong connection to his neighbours to the north.
- The federal government is set to expand its downtown footprint after subleasing long-vacant space in the head office of the Export Development Corp.
- With the federal Liberals promising to make their “innovation agenda” a key priority, Janice McDonald says it’s time to find out exactly how some of Canada’s most important, yet often ove
- A local commercial real estate firm specializing in tenant representation has brought one of the city’s more experienced brokers on board as a new partner.
- At an age when many Canadian kids are slinging burgers at fast-food joints to earn spending money, Adrien Lavoie was busy educating himself on the finer points of online retailing.
- The federal government took a lot of heat earlier this year for its decision to strip billions of dollars in near-term spending out of the national defence budget.
- Ottawa professional services firm says deal for smaller local competitor will shore up training offerings in nuclear sector and expand geographic reach
- For nearly four decades, engineers at a nondescript office in an east-end industrial park have been doing their part to serve their country in a unique way: by building cutting-edge diagn
- OBJ: Last year, you were calling for a revamped defence procurement strategy from the federal government to help make Canada a world leader in innovation.
- When Munich-based imaging technology firm FRAMOS was seeking the ideal base for its North American operations a few years ago, it looked seriously at a half-dozen locations.
- The way Solink CEO Mike Matta sees it, his Kanata-based firm is on the cutting edge of a technological revolution.
- After 16 years, one of Ottawa’s most buzzworthy tech firms is finally making its first appearance on OBJ’s list of fastest-growing companies.
- In a world where most fast-growing companies pride themselves on embracing the latest technology, Jason Bellefleur points to a decidedly old-school customer service initiative when asked what sets
- Quadruple-digit growth is becoming a habit for Kyle Braatz and his team at Fullscript, but don’t ever think the firm that is disrupting the way health-care products are delivered is takin
- With the number of appliances and electronic devices connected to the Internet growing every day, Ottawa entrepreneur Niraj Bhargava wonders why we’re still wearing out our fingers and th
- Strolling with her husband and newborn baby near their New Edinburgh home last summer, Lindsay Taub suddenly came up with a sweet business idea.
- Fast-growing Ottawa IT services firm Pythian has landed a new round of investment to help fund its ambitious expansion plans, announcing this week it closed a $15-million mezzanine financ
- Janice McDonald has just added another leadership role to her already impressive résumé.
- From his seat in a boardroom overlooking TD Place stadium, Byron Holland appears relaxed and confident, a CEO with a clear mandate and vision.
- Twelve years after he last headed up the Canadian Tulip Festival, Michel Gauthier is back at the helm – with what he say
- Farm boys at heart, pro hockey player-turned-entrepreneur Brennan Turner and business partner Alain Goubau surveyed the
- One of Invest Ottawa’s most recognizable faces is leaving the organization to join one of the city’s fastest-growing sof
- Marie Fiala believes she has a solution to Ottawa’s chronic shortage of tech talent that doesn’t require looking beyond
- Nancy-lee Glover still remembers her reaction when her mom told the family she was buying a business.
- Don’t count Gabe Batstone among those who believe automation is the enemy of the blue-collar worker.
- Ottawa’s main economic development agency is joining forces with the city’s largest BIA in an effort to lure tech workers from other North American hot spots such as Silicon Valley.
- If you suspect your “high-speed” Internet service is regularly stuck in a traffic jam, the City of Ottawa and the agency
- March 5-11 was National Procrastination Week, but if you never quite got around to celebrating it, don’t worry – you’re probably not alone.
- As product endorsements go, NASA’s seal of approval likely ranks right up there with the best of them.
- The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation’s drive to find a private operator for the Rideau Carleton Raceway casino is heading closer to the finish line, with the agency expected to announce this
- Bruce Lazenby didn’t waste time making his presence felt on Solacom Technologies’ board of directors.
- An Ottawa startup that says its battery system allows electric cars to be recharged almost as quickly as gas vehicles can be refuelled has landed $1.2 million in federal funding.
- Cole Miller might be majoring in cognitive science at Carleton University, but the 21-year-old entrepreneur has really been a student of business for most of his life.
- A spacious new headquarters in Hintonburg is just one more sign of bigger and better things to come from Ottawa startup Signority in 2017, the firm’s new CEO says.
- The final event in Mayor Jim Watson’s much-touted “hat trick” of marquee Canada 150 spectacles appears close to being a reality.
- One of the NHL’s most gifted offensive defencemen, Erik Karlsson is known to hockey aficionados everywhere as the engine that drives the Ottawa Senators’ attack.
- Much like the store they’re in, the Ottawa Lynx throwback hats on sale at Elgin Sports are a stark reminder of a bygone era.
- After a flurry of activity in 2016 that saw the Rideau Centre unveil a $360-million expansion and Costco open a new outlet in Barrhaven, the Ottawa retail sector is set to experience steady if unsp
- With employment surging and funding announcements already emerging, 2017 is shaping up to be another big year for Ottawa's tech sector.
- Although the city’s glut of unsold condos is easing and local realtors reported a sharp jump in November sales compared with a year earlier, Ottawa real estate experts don’t see a great condo comeb
- GaN Systems believes it’s on the verge of becoming a clean-tech industry powerhouse, and Larry Spaziani can barely contain his own energy when talking about it.
- An Ottawa-based company that uses groundbreaking laser technology to restore sight to people with impaired vision has been named the latest winner of the Startup Canada Innovation Award.
- Aviation software maker Mxi Technologies announced Tuesday it is being acquired by Swedish enterprise software firm IFS, calling the deal a springboard for growth that will allow the Kanata-based c
- Ottawa’s recently completed Innovation Centre at Bayview Yards will be receiving millions of dollars worth of advanced communications equipment that proponents say will help local startups break in
- When entrepreneur Wes Nicol addressed students at Carleton University’s convocation ceremony in 2006, he offered words of wisdom that couldn’t have been more appropriate coming from a man so humble
- One of Ottawa’s fastest-growing companies has acquired a Toronto firm in a bid to expand its cloud-based services.
- With health-care spending eating up nearly half of the provincial government’s annual budget, an Ottawa company says its software can help stop the bleeding when it comes to soaring medical costs.
- Of all the entrepreneurs who took the stage at this month’s Best Ottawa Business Awards, probably none had a bigger grin than FileFacets co-founder Chris Perram.
- In the aftermath of a U.S.
- Craig Fitzpatrick is on a mission to “fix the Internet” – one he hopes just got a little easier thanks to millions of dollars in new funding.
- A veteran entrepreneur and mentor to a host of successful startups, Leo Lax has no doubt that Canadian tech enterprises can thrive head-to-head against competitors from around the world.
- One of the true titans of Ottawa’s “golden generation” of high-tech leaders, Michael Potter took a small consulting company named Quasar Systems, renamed it Cognos and built it into the city’s pree
- Real estate developer Morguard has scrapped its original plan to build a new hotel and apartment complex at 361 Queen St.
- An Ottawa biotech startup has received a US$41-million injection of venture capital to further develop its groundbreaking treatments that use the body’s own immune system to battle cancer.
- Eight years ago, David Ross decided he needed to do something dramatic to shake his company out of the doldrums.
- In what’s been a roller-coaster year for Ottawa’s Better Software Company, founder Steve Cody and his team have received perhaps their
- When March Networks CEO Peter Strom tells people what he does for a living, the response is usually not what the head of the video-surveillance technology company is hoping for.
- Fifteen years ago this month, fall brought a blast of chilly news through the halls of what was then Ottawa’s largest technology company.
- Bolstered by a solid product and $1 million in fresh funding, it appeared that Ottawa startup Signority was set for a breakout year at the beginning of 2016.
- To celebrate Small Business Week, OBJ will publish stories of the successes and challenges faced by some of the
- The term “wearable technology” usually conjures up images of devices such as the Fitbit or Apple Watch, but organizers of this weekend’s Maker Faire Ottawa say the concept is about to go to a whole
- News that another acclaimed ByWard Market restaurant is closing its doors is a further indication of a shift in the city’s culinary landscape, industry observers say.
- While Canada’s major cable companies were taking heat over their $25 skinny basic TV packages at CRTC hearings this month, an Ottawa company was stepping up its efforts to promote a local product t
- The head of Canada’s largest medical marijuana producer had a message for Ottawa businesspeople Thursday morning at city hall: legalized weed is coming soon, and his company is ready to be No.
- In a bid to “further strengthen its market position and drive corporate growth,” local aviation software maker Mxi Technologies announced Tuesday it has tapped the former president of FedEx Canada
- When Greg Burwell and Tyler Eyamie were laid off as part of a purge at Ottawa tech firm Protus in 2010, they found themselves with plenty of time and a “little bit of a nest egg” to start the next
- Every entrepreneur knows there will inevitably be a few bumps on the road to success. But Lainie Towell is feeling them a little more tangibly than most.
- The way Kevin Bidner sees it, the hotel industry has been stuck in the ’60s for far too long.
- Jim Watson might not know everyone in the nation’s capital, but it often seems like it.
- In a 20-year business career that has seen him tackle a variety of roles at various tech firms – including guiding a company from a startup to a successful IPO – Hugh Chow figured he had crossed ju
- The Rideau Centre officially cut the ribbon on its $360-million expansion project on Thursday, a massive redevelopment designed to bring a more “sophisticated” shopping experience to the city’s dow
- From his vantage point overlooking the ByWard Market in what will soon be the Rideau Centre’s newest department store, Peter Simons sees a different Ottawa than the one he used to know.
- Half a dozen years ago, Chris Pointer was a website designer trying to make a name for himself like legions of others, working out of his condo and landing contracts where he could.
- Ottawa’s newest independent commercial leasing broker knows he has his work cut out for him, but he says he’s up for the challenge.
- The crowd at the opening of Morguard’s state-of-the-art Performance Court at 150 Elgin St.
- Ottawa rates high as an overall travel destination in a new survey, but the city lags behind other many major Canadian cities in air access and needs to better define its identity in mark
- After a globetrotting high-tech career, Les Rechan would seem to be just the right person to lead Halogen Software’s quest to become an international software powerhouse.
- Avivagen CEO Cameron Groome was sounding an upbeat tone Friday morning after his company announced it had secured $3.6 million in new funding in a private placement.
- Buying up companies is getting to be old hat for Mitel Networks CEO Rich McBee.
- Colliers International has turned to a veteran broker to fill the post of managing director at its Ottawa office.
- Canada is falling behind in the global innovation race because its tech sector too often fails to scale startups into sustainable companies, the head of one of Ontario’s leading business sc
- Fullscript CEO Kyle Braatz will never be accused of lacking ambition – a drive that is reflected in his vision for his company.
- When Natalie Baddour and her University of Ottawa colleague Edward Lemaire first began researching wearable devices nearly a decade ago, watches that tracked a user’s every step and smartph
- When tech veterans and longtime friends Paul Butcher and Jim Stechyson each found themselves looking for a new business challenge a few years ago, it didn’t take them long to hit upon the perfect b
- After nearly a year of speculation, it’s finally official: Costco is planning to move its Gloucester location to Shoppers City East.
- When Kevin Porsche kept getting requests from his company’s human resources department to find out what websites employees were visiting, he knew there had to be a better way than checking
- Trinity Development Group’s proposed mixed-use complex that would span the O-Train tracks near Bayview station could become the centrepiece of Ottawa’s next great urban gentrification project, real
- The Ontario government’s plan to allow municipalities to mandate affordable housing in new developments will hurt homebuyers by jacking up prices, a key local industry advocate says.
- When Kevin Loiselle needed a partner to help finance the installation of his company’s water management and sanitation systems, he had to jet across the Atlantic to find one.
- Fintech is “one of the most exciting categories in tech investing at the moment,” industry veteran Marwan Forzley says, and he believes his hometown could play a prominent role in its growt
- Even as a young computer science student at the University of Ottawa, Marwan Forzley was fascinated by the world of business – and in particular by enterprises that were turning established
- For nearly a decade, Pat Kelly tried to entice business to Ottawa’s downtown convention centre as its CEO. Now, he’s on the other side of the table.
- Before a gag order was imposed on the two groups vying to redevelop LeBreton Flats, Devcore president Jean-Pierre Poulin told OBJ the process was “fair” and he was confident the Senators wi
- From a modest office on Carling Avenue, Joe Gerard and his colleagues are running a global business helping companies around the world stop corporate corruption in its tracks.
- Companies in Kanata North generate $7.8 billion in economic activity each year and employ more than 30,000 people, according to a new study.
- Among the three local firms on Deloitte’s annual Canadian Companies to Watch list released in November is one that garners few headlines but is ready to make a big splash.
- Calling both plans to redevelop LeBreton Flats “very impressive,” the head of one of Ottawa’s most influential business organizations nonetheless didn’t hesitate to endorse the RendezVous L
- In a development that is sure to shake up the local real estate scene, one of Ottawa’s top office leasing teams announced this week it has left Colliers International to join rival brokerage Cushma
- Apple has leased space at a Kanata office complex in preparation for setting up a facility in the National Capital Region, several sources have confirmed to OBJ.
- Most analysts agree 2015 was a year of uncertainty in Ottawa’s commercial real estate sector, with a federal election and a topsy-turvy economy leaving everyone wondering where the market was heade
- Befitting a city that buzzes with energy 24 hours a day, You.i TV’s suite at the sprawling Encore casino resort complex in Las Vegas was a whirlwind of activity this week.
- With Star Wars: The Force Awakens triggering a new wave of interest in George Lucas’s enduring sci-fi saga, a small Ottawa mobile gaming company is hoping to cash in.
- A who’s-who of Ottawa tech heavyweights broke out the bubbly at PageCloud’s ByWard Market headquarters Monday night to celebrate the city’s most-anticipated software launch in years.
- Ottawa’s commercial real estate market continued its slump in the first nine months of 2015, reflecting skittishness over the economy and the federal election, according to a new report from Collie
- Two of the city’s leading property managers announced Tuesday they are joining forces to become the largest commercial landlord in Ottawa.
- Remco Volmer sounded awfully excited Friday about the big happenings at Lansdowne Park this weekend.
- A major high-tech trade association’s call for a beefed-up science and technology ministry was answered on Wednesday.
- As the CEO of one of Canada’s leading tech companies, David Ross is a regular at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas every January.
- When Mxi Technologies vacates more than 50,000 square feet of class-A office space at Blair Place in November, an east-end commercial real estate market that has already seen its vacancy rate soar
- When Ian Glenn was in charge of the Canadian army’s unmanned aerial vehicle program nearly two decades ago, drones were strictly the domain of the military.
- You.i TV’s banner 2015 got even better on Monday, when the Ottawa software company announced it has landed $15 million in venture capital funding.
- Rand Peppler still remembers how, as a young man in Ottawa in the mid-1980s, he felt “inspired” after reading a newspaper article about an entrepreneur who made it big south of the border.
- About 100 of the city’s brightest business minds gathered in a ByWard Market office in late June, cloaked in excitement and curiosity about a sector many are calling a potential game-changer: weara
- The first time Brad Loiselle visited India, he didn’t think he would ever go back.
- A local startup that created the world’s first 3D-printable hydroponics system is looking to a pioneer of the medical marijuana industry to help take its business to the next level.
- When rookie cornerback Malcolm Butler intercepted Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson in the dying seconds of Super Bowl XLIX, the New England Patriots clinched their fourth NFL title in fr
- GaN could be the beginning of ‘Gallium Valley North’ It’s fitting that GaN Systems is suddenly growing at what feels like lightning speed.
- New York is famous for being the “city that never sleeps.”
- The Shaw Centre’s new boss definitely can’t be accused of setting the bar too low.
- The city’s planning committee on Tuesday approved a local builder’s proposal for a Barrhaven business park that could include developments such as a hotel and a medical facility.
- The developer behind a proposed west-end condo tower says he intends to work with city officials to create an “iconic” top for the building so it meets the Ontario Municipal Board’s standard for “l
- Buoyed by the company's direct sales growth, executives at Ottawa’s DragonWave told investors on a conference call Wednesday morning they expect the firm to be cash-flow positive by the middle of f
- After years of flying under the radar – metaphorically speaking – local aviation software company Mxi Technologies is hoping a change of scenery will help raise its profile.
- The Ontario Municipal Board’s decision to allow a Toronto developer to go ahead with a 12-storey west-end condo tower if it features “landmark architecture” could give builders a loophole to circum
- Calling Ottawa “a thriving technology hub and a great place to do business,” networking equipment maker Ciena Corp.
- Renowned entrepreneur Adam Chowaniec had a simple approach to life: “Always look forward, never look back.”
- When Toronto’s “condo king,” Brad Lamb, raves about the opportunities in the Ottawa market these days, he’s actually not talking about condos.
- One of downtown Ottawa’s prime office complexes is undergoing a multimillion-dollar renovation in an effort to attract new tenants and accommodate a major LRT station.
- Local cybersecurity firm CloudLink has been acquired by international data storage giant EMC Corporation, the companies announced on Thursday.
- As a busy college professor, entrepreneur and part-time employee of the National Hockey League, Chris Elliott knows the importance of time management.
- Much like the mid-April weather, the Ottawa commercial real estate market appears to be warming up after a prolonged cold spell.
- There was plenty of fire in the Dragons’ Den when a couple of Ottawa entrepreneurs made their pitch on the popular CBC program Wednesday night – most of it directed right at them.
- When Pat Kelly was named CEO of the Ottawa Congress Centre in 2007, one of the first things he did was find out how many conventions would have to be relocated while the archaic facility was torn d
- Frank Bouchard and Toby Maurice are expecting an opportunity to come their way on April 1 that could triple their company’s sales practically overnight.
- The Ottawa lawyer who chairs the private corporation that protects buyers of new homes in Ontario says the organization has boosted consumer protection dramatically in his 10 years on the b
- In the early days of the personal computer, Adam Chowaniec made such an impact on Silicon Valley he was ultimately hailed as one of the founding fathers of the industry.
- The business of construction is going high-tech at a new Algonquin College research facility.
- After a forgettable 2014 for the city’s commercial real estate market, a major Ottawa appraisal firm says there’s nowhere to go but up.
- When Pat Kelly arrived in Ottawa to become GM of the Westin Hotel in 1988, the main topic of conversation in the local tourism industry was the need for a larger downtown convention centr
- Much like the tree for which it is named, marketing and design firm Jackpine Digital was born out of less-than-ideal circumstances.
- It’s a cutting-edge local tech company that has drawn comparisons with its much more famous e-commerce counterpart, Shopify, and even occupies the same downtown office its bigger, brasher cousin on
- It’s a cutting-edge local tech company that has drawn comparisons with its much more famous e-commerce counterpart, Shopify, and even occupies the same downtown office its bigger, brasher c
- In its first year of operation, Smiths Falls-based medical marijuana grower Tweed has been creating quite a buzz – and not just among the users of its product.
- From their rapidly growing startup’s new headquarters in the Byward Market, Frank Bouchard and Toby Maurice are rewriting the book on business success.
- If Fluidware co-founder Aydin Mirzaee were to rate his online survey company’s acquisition by SurveyMonkey after the first three months, it would be close to a perfect 10.
- From his humble desk at Invest Ottawa, George Borovec is hoping to turn the online classifieds business on its head.
- The federal government announced Friday it is contributing up to $7.7 million over the next five years to fund incubator and accelerator programs for small businesses in eastern Ontario.
- While the NHL season is just beginning, an Ottawa-based manufacturer of safety products for hockey and other high-risk endeavours is already celebrating its own Stanley Cup of merchandising
- A private Ottawa post-secondary college has launched a new certificate program it says will make the city a leader in training and employing network security professionals.
- The arrival of Ottawa’s first “micro-condo” development is another sign housing has become out of reach for many local buyers, a leading industry advocate says.
- Building a successful business usually requires a lot of heavy lifting, but the young entrepreneurs behind a new Ottawa startup are taking that analogy more literally than most.
- A new Ottawa-based facility designed to find ways of bringing cutting-edge medical technology to market faster will give the local life sciences sector a shot in the arm, industry insiders
- A California-based network security firm with a significant local presence says it might have to scale back growth projections for its Ottawa operations because it can’t find enough qualifi
- Since beginning her career at Shopify a couple of years ago, Anna Lambert has attended her share of technology conferences.
- As one of only a few women who run high-tech companies in Ottawa, Sue Abu-Hakima has become known as a bit of a trailblazer.
- A new outdoor rink at Bayshore Park might mean more fun for residents, but the company that funded the project says it will ultimately be good for its bottom line as well.
- Michael Golubev doesn’t temper his enthusiasm when asked where the business of 3-D printing is headed.
- When Daniel Levesque retired in 2010 after a three-decade career as an engineer at Nordion, the last thing he ever thought he’d need to worry about was his pension.
- Ian Curry is a happy man, and with good reason.
- A pair of planned new office buildings at Tunney’s Pasture and the Ottawa Train Yards could be a signal that developers believe the federal government is ready to shed more real estate in the downt
- Most people still think of Ottawa as a city of civil servants. Kyle McInnes has a different view, one that might be surprising.
- Shopify’s foray into bricks-and-mortar business is still in its early stages, but it’s building into something big, the company says.
- When it comes to skyrocketing policing costs, Eli El-Chantiry points his finger squarely at fingerprinting.
- Listen up, all you Sens fans: the next time you’re admiring a replay of an Erik Karlsson end-to-end rush on the big screen at the Canadian Tire Centre, you might want to spare some thanks f
- Management blunders, market changes and a “black cloud” of eroding customer confidence were just some of the factors that ultimately led to Nortel’s epic collapse, a new report from the Uni
- Ottawa’s main taxi dispatcher is about to give the green light to technology that will let local residents book and pay for cabs on their smartphones.
- Ottawa’s Mistral Venture Partners fund gets its name from a fierce northerly wind.
- Shopify’s recent success in securing $100 million in venture capital should help Ottawa step out of the shadows of more-hyped technology centres such as Waterloo when it comes to landing ca
- That chill in the air Matthew Sachs felt in late December had nothing to do with the arctic-like temperatures gripping the capital.
- Developer Fred Carmosino might live in Dunrobin, but he knows all about the benefits of downtown living.
- The National Capital Commission on Tuesday awarded a $2.13-million contract to Ottawa’s Exel Contracting to upgrade a section of Laurier Street in Gatineau in front of the Canadian Museum o
- Carleton University officials want to find out if allowing the private sector to build and manage a new student residence will pay off in the long run.
- Imagine letting the Crown Jewels gather dust in an attic. As far as Mark Brandt is concerned, that’s pretty much what’s happened to Chaudiere Island.
