{"id":938988,"date":"2026-10-19T16:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/938988\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:14:27","slug":"industry-gathers-in-ottawa-in-preparation-for-hardlines-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/938988\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry gathers in Ottawa in preparation for Hardlines Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hardlines.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/RONA-PubNight-Blue-e1762809709600.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32920 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/RONA-PubNight-Blue-e1762809709600-300x172.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\"  \/><\/a>Almost 200 dealers and suppliers from coast to coast are arriving in the nation\u2019s capital today to attend the 30th Hardlines Conference. A lineup of senior retail executives, plus experts in tech and workplace best practices, will take to the podium starting tomorrow morning. This evening, however, delegates will have the opportunity to network at our Pub Night, which is kindly sponsored by RONA inc. Also on hand, the winners of this year\u2019s Outstanding Retailer Awards, who will be honoured tomorrow evening at the Hardlines industry gala dinner.<\/p>\n<p>(If you\u2019re on your way to join us tonight, <a href=\"https:\/\/hardlinesconference.ca\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> for more details about the conference itself, or contact our amazing senior marketing and event manager <a href=\"http:\/\/hardlines.ca\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#6b060208030e07070e2b030a190f0702050e1845080a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Porter directly<\/a> if you have any questions or concerns!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost 200 dealers and suppliers from coast to coast are arriving in the nation\u2019s capital today to attend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-938988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}