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Ottawa restaurants rocked by truck convoy focus of $250K community-led fundraiser

Organizers of GoFundMe fundraiser are set to start distributing money to most-affected businesses later this month.

Shopify invests in San Francisco-based logistics giant Flexport

Flexport announced Monday that Shopify is a “strategic investor” in its new US$935M round aimed at scaling up the global digital freight-forwarding company.

Move over, Ericsson: U.S. firm challenging global wireless players set to open Kanata R&D hub

Parallel Wireless says it’s opening a lab in the National Capital Region as part of a global expansion aimed at pushing its radio access network technology into more markets.

‘Everyone is in crisis mode’: Calls increase for government to support downtown businesses

With the trucker convoy and protests continuing in Ottawa for a second week, downtown business owners and employees are calling on various levels of government for support.

Bright Side of Business: Community steps up to support Little Ray’s

Little Ray’s is home to 900 animals, which means that, unlike other businesses, it can’t simply send its employees home and turn off the lights.

Building managers buckle down in the core

In light of new police tactics to manage the ongoing trucker convoy, property managers in Ottawa’s downtown core are preparing for another weekend of protests.

Million-dollar threshold no barrier as high-end home sales surge, OREB says

Detached home sales topping the million-dollar mark accounted for 14 per cent of local transactions in January – up substantially from 2020, when they made up just three per cent of all deals.

Real-life succession: what prominent business families can teach us

Are real families as dysfunctional as the feuding clan depicted in HBO's Succession? Telfer School of Management professor Peter Jaskiewicz talks about that and more in part two of our Q&A.

Ottawa-Gatineau unemployment rate ticks up to 4.7% in January as labour force grows

The region gained 1,400 jobs last month, but that was more than offset by the 4,000 people who resumed their search for work, Statistics Canada said Friday.

TechopiaLive: 25 million reasons why email marketing is still alive

In part two of this episode of TechopiaLive, OBJ publisher Michael Curran spoke to the CEO of...