French video game developer Ubisoft shuttered its office in Halifax on Wednesday, laying off 71 people less than a month after the majority of the workplace voted to unionize. “I have reasonable questions about the timing of all this.” Jon Huffman, former lead programmer at Ubisoft Halifax Ubisoft, which runs six studios in Canada, told…
Next week, the Indigenous Tech Circle (ITC) is hosting its first Indigenous Tech Conference. Set to take place on Jan. 20 and Jan. 21 at the Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel, ITC expects the inaugural event to bring together more than 250 Indigenous founders, tech professionals, investors, community partners, allies, and policymakers, which it says would…
Many of you are just starting to swing back to work after a restful holiday break. And we all know that that means: meetings, emails, meetings that could have been emails, and more meetings. Maybe you work a ‘standard’ 9 to 5. Perhaps you’re a 9/9/6 hustle culture edge lord. But what if there was…
There’s an old saying about girls and diamonds. It probably hasn’t aged well. A more appropriate saying in 2026 might be that diamonds are a quantum scientist’s best friend — particularly thanks to a discovery at the University of Calgary. In early December of 2025, researchers at the University of Calgary’s Quantum Nanophotonics Lab published…
Toronto-based Kepler Communications is launching its first wave of orbital data centre satellites in California on Sunday morning, but space nerds can watch from anywhere. If successful, Kepler will be the first to launch a low-earth orbit satellite system based on an optical relay network. Ten 300-kilogram-class satellites built in Toronto will be on board…
Ottawa-based supply chain management company Kinaxis has appointed Razat Gaurav as its new CEO, just over a year after the retirement of longtime leader John Sicard. “I will champion the next generation of AI-driven decision making and supply chain orchestration.” Razat Gaurav, Kinaxis Gaurav, who will officially take over on Jan. 12, comes to Kinaxis…
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Montréal-based cybersecurity software company Flare claimed today that it has identified a new group of scammers that is actively defrauding Canadians using fake toll and parking violation texts disguised as messages from provincial agencies. The texts are coming from a group that Flare calls PayTool, which is the name the scammers used on their initial…
Many founders picture their company’s exit at the far end of the growth curve. A new report from business law firm Fasken suggests the decision point often arrives much sooner. “Founders might be saying, ‘we can IPO or make this company into a massive player in our market,’ and you might have VCs saying, ‘I…
MDA Space has signed a contract with the United States’ Missile Defense Agency, which operates through the US Department of War, to potentially help with President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” initiative. The Brampton, Ont.-based spacetech manufacturer announced on Thursday that it received an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract from the Missile Defense Agency for the…
