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2026 CFO of the Year Nicole O’Reilly: Managing ‘constant disruptions’ at Lee Valley Tools

As a young graduate starting out in accounting, Nicole O’Reilly had no clue that one of her first clients would offer her a pathway to build her career.  In 1998, O’Reilly was working as an auditor for KPMG in Ottawa, a job she would keep for about five years. One...
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Michelle Groulx gets Lifetime Achievement nod from Women’s Business Network

Michelle Groulx, recently named interim CEO at the ByWard Market District Authority, received the...
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Smaller accounting firms best positioned to adopt AI, professionals say

With the accounting industry often slow to adopt new technologies, artificial intelligence promises to be a major disruptor, local experts predict.
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Calian hires ex-Shoppers Drug Mart exec to head essential industries division

Calian Group has hired a former Shoppers Drug Mart executive to lead its business...
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Ottawa non-profit housing groups in midst of acquisition, construction boom

It’s been a banner 2026 for Ottawa Community Housing, but the city’s largest non-profit landlord said its recent wins are a result of a strategy that it began laying out years earlier.
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On Sept. 25, Rohit broke ground on The Avro, the second of three apartment...

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Advancing Care for Generations Campaign Launch in support of Montfort

The Mrak family and the Montfort Hospital Foundation hosted an exclusive fundraising cocktail reception at Mark Motors Porsche Ottawa to mark the public launch of the Advancing Care for Generations campaign.
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Generative AI is a superpower for tech entrepreneurs creating new products. AI can help analyse problems, explore options and define solutions at a pace never before possible. Here’s the question: while AI is an inventor’s best friend, what role does it play in inventing new products from an intellectual property perspective? In this bonus episode of Techopia Live, OBJ publisher Michael Curran speaks with Kushal Shah, a registered Canadian patent agent and lawyer who recently joined Ottawa-based Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP. The discussion explores exactly how much heavy lifting an AI can do before it becomes difficult for a human to legally claim an invention. The conversation provides practical guidance on establishing a paper trail to prove a meaningful human contribution to the final product. Learn how to safely validate AI-generated suggestions and avoid the confidentiality traps of feeding unpatented ideas and proprietary data into generative AI systems in this latest episode. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:25 Introducing Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP 02:09 Introducing Kushal Shah 23:50 OBJ Updates and Closing For more on Ottawa’s tech and innovation scene, visit https://obj.ca/techopia. Subscribe to Techopia’s weekly newsletter here: https://obj121.activehosted.com/f/5
Techopia Live: Can you patent AI inventions? | Episode 301
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The data centre debate is alive and well in Ottawa

Most Ottawa residents will never step inside a data centre, even though they use...
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Larus lands $800K in federal funding, and other tech news from around Ottawa

The National Research Council’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) will provide up to $800,000 in funding for Larus Technologies’ $1.7-million project to develop AI-powered technology that transforms natural language into “executable military scenarios for command and control, simulation, and training,” the firm said this week.
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TOHF’s new CFO Diana Burns on managing a capital campaign through volatility

With financial pressures weighing on donors, The Ottawa Hospital Foundation’s new CFO, Diana Burns, is focused on keeping the momentum going as the hospital’s capital campaign closes in on its goal.

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