What's Up Wednesday

Paul "Yogi" Granger opened the House of TARG as a place he and his friends would feel comfortable in back in 2014.

“I really love Canada and would like to stay, but it's too hard to make small, innovative businesses work in Canada,” Jonnel Sloane says. “It's tough being an entrepreneur in Canada compared to the U.S."

Co-owner Gen Vivian says she's never afraid to try something new.

"I was hooked as soon as I touched it," local potterer Anne Nicol says.

“I was prepared to run the store at a loss for a year or so before I opened, but the pandemic is making marketing my fashion more challenging than I originally anticipated,” John Rmor admits.

One of Ottawa's fastest growing businesses is taking fantasy board games to another next level.

Although Davies doesn't have much time to do what got him into the business in the first place, he's excited to offer Ottawans products made close to home.

"You won't find many companies that manufacture and sell their own products here, and we're proud of that," says co-founder David Gaylord.

Dinah Robinson is still working to make Ottawa a more bee-friendly city, as she turns a hobby into a new local business.

University of Ottawa student Alida Burke recently won the SheBoot Pitch competition for businesses by women.