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Ottawa’s Fastest Growing Companies: Pre-pandemic pivot pays off for bug-detection firm Noibu

Fastest Growing Companies

Noibu’s revenues soared nearly 600 per cent in 2020 as retailers realized that even minutes of selling time lost to glitches in their online stores

Leonovus boss ‘bullish’ on struggling Ottawa software firm’s future

Techopia

Company hopes decade-long effort to develop secure data-transfer technology will finally bear fruit after getting the green light to sell its products to the federal

Ottawa-Gatineau jobless rate holds steady at 6.5% in March

Ottawa

Employers added nearly 8,000 new jobs to their payrolls last month, StatsCan says, but those gains were offset by more people looking for work.

That’s rich: Shopify’s Lütke Canada’s second-wealthiest person, Forbes says

Ottawa

Mitel founder Terry Matthews and Claridge Homes CEO Bill Malhotra are also members of the billionaires’ club.

Virtual edition of CHEO For the Kids Gala raises $185K to help children and youth reach full potential

Evening featured gala-in-a-box delivery, online auction and entertainment while bringing attention to pediatric hospital’s development and rehabilitation program

ADGA Group senior executive John Jarvis is now retired – and still happily married to his former boss

Long-time community leader heads Perley Rideau Capital Campaign to improve care for seniors

‘People are going to work sick:’ Third wave reignites debate over paid sick days

Canada & World

Critics say the federal Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit has had poor uptake because it is more akin to the government’s employment insurance program than paid

Ottawa’s Fastest Growing Companies: Bushbalm growing into a well-oiled machine

Fastest Growing Companies

The company says it’s on pace to do nearly $10 million in sales in 2021

‘We’ve simply run out of time’: Bluesfest cancelled for second straight year

Tourism

While this year’s festival won’t be happening, Bluesfest boss Mark Monahan said Rage Against the Machine has already been confirmed as a headliner for 2022.