Feds say legislation will still require companies to retain metadata from users.

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Prime Minister Carney has confirmed that the long-delayed strategy will be released next week.

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Amidst battle with OSC, Seif claims incumbents wield the regulated nature of the financial industry against change.

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ProteinQure’s co-founder argues “messy biology experiments” are still the bottleneck.

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Upcoming IPOs for SpaceX and Anthropic are boosting demand.

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Waabi founder said at BetaKit’s Most Ambitious: Town Hall that Canada could lead the physical AI revolution.

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Canadian founders of YC-backed Oohlala Mobile return with new startup.

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Erin O’Toole wants Canadian innovators to seize the moment before it’s gone.

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Turing Award winner Gilles Brassard has spent decades warning about the threat posed by powerful quantum encryption.

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CEOs of Float, Neo Financial, and Rebel told Homecoming attendees how they courted investors.

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Liu is fine with AI coding, but finds the notion of it writing stories for him “revolting.”

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CCI chair spoke on taking a lesson from US economic policy during BetaKit’s Most Ambitious: Town Hall.

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Growing Canada’s domestic capacity was a focus of Homecoming’s sovereignty-themed panel.

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Osler Deal Points Report found that AI captured 54 cents of every Canadian venture dollar last year.

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At Arctic Edge conference, VCs offered a mea culpa while outlining why dual-use tech is here to stay.

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At Most Ambitious: Town Hall, Dominion Dynamics CEO said procurement must move in weeks, not decades.

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Andrew Macdonald tells Toronto Tech Week’s Homecoming that the gig app’s labour pool may soon start to shrink.

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But, as Tobi Lütke said at Toronto Tech Week’s Homecoming, those companies could still make a billion dollars.

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Farm Credit Canada CEO Justine Hendricks on Canada’s “generational opportunity” to elevate its food production with innovation.

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This Alberta post-secondary is a pipeline for Canadian AgTech innovation.

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