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Techopia Live: BluMetric riding high on ‘green wave’

OBJ publisher Michael Curran talks with BluMetric CEO Scott McFabe about how his team plans to leverage the company's improved financial performance into new opportunities and growth potential.

Cannabis company Hexo hit by one-time charges, reports $690.3M net loss

Hexo Corp. reported a net loss of $690.3 million as it recorded $616 million in one-time impairment charges in its latest quarter as it worked to turn around the cannabis business.

Canadians cutting back spending on groceries, restaurants as inflation rises: poll

A new poll suggests Canadians are looking for ways to cut back on spending as their concerns about the cost of living rise alongside headline inflation rates.

Retail sales rose 3.2% in January amid Omicron surge, StatCan reports

Statistics Canada says retail sales rose 3.2 per cent to $58.9 billion in January, helped by higher sales at new car dealers to start the year.

Social norms will take time to establish as more workers head back to offices

Along with anxiety about commuting times and corporate vaccination policies come questions over what professional behaviour looks like in 2022.

Ottawa’s Fullscript chasing magic $1B revenue mark after ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ acquisition of U.S. firm

Deal will raise online health-care platform's annual revenues from $300 million to $600 million while boosting its headcount from about 600 to 950. 

Philanthropy in Ottawa: Lawyer Marc Jolicoeur and wife create legacy endowment fund for deadly brain cancer

Even after Marc Jolicoeur became a successful lawyer and community leader, it’s clear he never forgot where he came from nor the people he met along the way.

Under headline jobs figures, report finds pockets of weakness in rebound for women

A new report says women's historically high numbers in the country's labour force remain below where they might have been if COVID-19 had never occurred.

Martello lands $2.5M funding boost after two quarters of flat growth

Martello Technologies is getting a multimillion-dollar funding boost as it looks to bounce back from a pandemic-fuelled slump that stalled a years-long stretch of virtually uninterrupted growth.

Fed begins inflation fight with key rate hike

The Federal Reserve launched a high-risk effort Wednesday to tame the worst inflation since the early 1980s, raising its benchmark short-term interest rate and signaling up to six additional rate hikes this year.