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Startups to watch: Ottawa’s Spiderwort targets growing biomaterials industry

Unlike our fleshy human bodies, when trees break a limb, they don’t have casts put on their...

Air Transat and regulator sued over stranded planes in Ottawa

An air passenger rights advocate is suing the Canadian Transportation Agency and Air Transat over decisions related...

Ottawa’s Martello merges with Montreal firm; IPO expected in 2018

With ambitions of going public later this year, Martello Technologies is starting 2018 with a merger that...

People on the Move: West Ottawa Board of Trade appoints new executive committee

The West Ottawa Board of Trade has appointed a new executive committee: Mischa Kaplan, chair; Wayne French,...

To offset minimum wage hike, several Tim Hortons franchises owned by children of chain’s co-founder reduce employee benefits

Employees at the Tim Hortons locations owned by the children of the co-founders of the franchise say...

Canadian vehicle sales hit record high in 2017

Canadians last year purchased more than two million vehicles for the first time thanks to record sales...

Tourism lookahead: After the big 2017 party, where does Ottawa go from here?

Michael Crockatt calls the Canada 150 celebrations a “great gift” that made 2017 a record year for...

Deadline approaching for Founder Institute Ottawa’s winter cohort

If 2018 is the year you resolved to launch the startup idea you’ve long had rattling around...

BlackBerry QNX selected to work with China’s Baidu for driverless vehicles

Chinese search-engine giant Baidu Inc. has selected BlackBerry Ltd. to provide the safety operating system for the...

Ottawa’s Advanced Symbolics to lead AI project looking for suicide warning signs

An Ottawa-based firm has been tapped by the federal government for a three-month pilot project designed to...