I have returned and recovered from a busy week in Ottawa, covering both Budget 2025 and SAAS NORTH. There’s an interesting overlap between those two events. With Budget 2025, the federal government has kickstarted a national defence tech sector. While we still don’t know the strategy, we know how much the feds are willing to…
Two major lawsuits alleging copyright infringement against artificial intelligence (AI) companies Cohere and OpenAI aren’t going their way, so far. “This decision is the first step towards justice for these publishers.” A judge in the Southern District of New York fully rejected Toronto-based AI scaleup Cohere’s motion to dismiss its lawsuit this week, one week…
Brampton-based MDA Space maintained a bright outlook on fiscal 2025 in its third-quarter earnings despite losing out on a $1.8-billion CAD contract with American telecom EchoStar in September. More than half of MDA Space’s $20-billion opportunity pipeline is in satellite systems. The Canadarm manufacturer reported a 45-percent year-over-year increase in revenue growth, raking in $409.8…
The former Shopify employee who co-founded its Build Native entrepreneurship program is relaunching the initiative after the e-commerce giant quietly shuttered it earlier this year. “Shopify closed the program earlier this year. I chose not to let that be the end of our story.” Tracy Ridler, Centre for Native Nation Builders Tracy Ridler, CEO of…
Vancouver’s CereCura Nanotherapeutics wants to leverage the same technology that powered COVID-19 vaccines to treat neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Spun out of the University of British Columbia (UBC), the pre-clinical biotech startup claims that it has already demonstrated an ability to effectively deliver multiple proteins to rodents’ brains, a step on the path…
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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Building new foundations Welcome to the third installment of The Optimist Daily’s Annual Local Changemakers series. Over five weeks, we’re celebrating ten extraordinary individuals and organizations transforming their communities through heart-led innovation. This week, we’re spotlighting changemakers who are rebuilding, physically and culturally, what has been lost, overlooked, or…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Building new foundations Welcome to the third installment of The Optimist Daily’s Annual Local Changemakers series. Every Friday, we’re celebrating ten extraordinary individuals and organizations transforming their communities through heart-led innovation. This week, we’re spotlighting changemakers who are rebuilding, physically and culturally, what has been neglected or shut out….
Phil De Luna, former Deep Sky chief science and commercial officer, has teamed up with University of British Columbia (UBC) researcher Sabrina Scott and Aurora Hydrogen co-founder and ex-CTO Erin Bobicki to help decarbonize cement with Cura. “We believe that we can get under the cost to produce conventional cement, whereas most … other technologies…
JD Saint-Martin says he will step down as president of Montréal-based Lightspeed Commerce at the end of its fiscal year. “We’re deeply grateful for JD’s partnership and the discipline he instilled in our global operations.” After six years with the e-commerce and point-of-sales tech firm, Saint-Martin will leave on March 31 “to focus on mentoring…
