Month: October 2007

Remembrance Day isn’t business as usual for Ottawa’s business community – at least not for most of it.

Craig Fitzpatrick, CEO of Ottawa-based software company Devshop, says Ottawa’s current hub for startup businesses is at the corner of Elgin and Maclaren – in a Bridgehead coffeehouse.

With the Canadian dollar hovering around parity with the American greenback and much lower U.S. prices to compare with, book lovers are questioning the high Canadian prices.

Ottawa small businesses are turning up their noses at the city’s Yellow Bag program, a garbage pick-up initiative that makes them pay to dump.