A Swedish defence official walks into the Québec pavilion at VivaTech… It sounds like a setup in need of a punchline. But for Beonyx, a Saguenay-based robotics company, one of nearly 100 Québec technology companies represented at Europe’s largest technology event this June, that moment was no laughing matter. “Paris opened doors into the European…
Alberta is investing $50 million into the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), the Province announced this morning. The news: Announced by Premier Danielle Smith at Platform Calgary, the $50 million will be distributed over five years and be drawn from five provincial ministries. The Ministry of Technology and Innovation and the Ministry of Advanced Education…
Two years after hitting $100 million USD in annual recurring revenue (ARR), Ottawa-based centaur Assent has made its first-ever acquisition, buying German sustainability software provider IPoint in an effort to expand its compliance offerings. The news: Assent announced it acquired IPoint on Thursday morning. The two companies both provide software that helps manufacturers and distributors…
Eleven words changed the way Amanda Hall thought about her career, and her budding startup: “Why are you doing this? It’s too big for you.” That’s what the Summit Lithium Technologies founder and geophysicist says she was told eight years ago, when she first pitched the ambitious notion of extracting and refining the world’s lithium…
Social media users are goin’ IN after Stacey Dash switched up her look. RELATED: Okay! LisaRaye Participated In “Backup Dancer Challenge” Alongside Valarie Pettiford & She’s Got Social Media Talkin’ (VIDEO) Stacey Dash Switches Up Her Look On Wednesday, July 8, Stacey Dash took to Instagram to share a quick reel with her more than 416,000…
Fans hoping to see Douglas Adams’ beloved sci-fi comedy return to the screen will have to keep waiting. After years without any meaningful updates, Hulu’s planned television adaptation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has officially been confirmed as dead, bringing an end to a project that once generated plenty of excitement among longtime…
First, a confession: for too long, I didn’t wear sunscreen. For a skincare devotee, this is near-sacrilege, I know. Turns out, not wearing sunscreen was rendering the rest of my routine ineffective — especially since I was struggling with hyperpigmentation. Now, I can’t start my day without it. And you shouldn’t either. Luckily, sunscreen just…
Canada has a technology deficit problem in high-stakes, hard-to-reach places. Whether it’s a remote mine in northern Ontario, an oil field in Alberta, critical infrastructure across the Rockies, or defence operations in remote parts of the country, these environments still depend on systems that support complex operations—even when networks are unreliable and conditions are harsh….
After a decade that saw it begin as an online travel agency and evolve into a consumer “savings super app,” Toronto-headquartered Super.com has officially become a unicorn and, the company says, saved its users more than $1 billion USD ($1.4 billion CAD) in the process. Super.com announced on Tuesday that it has closed $65 million…
MDA Space is purchasing a controlling stake in Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), a French earth observation company, for 567 million euros ($920 million CAD) in cash. The news: Brampton-based MDA announced it will acquire an approximately 70- percent stake in CLS following market close on Wednesday evening. France’s national space agency, Centre national d’études spatiales,…
