Scale AI offering $30-million envelope for Canadian companies to accelerate AI adoption
Government-backed AI hub to cover up to 40 percent of “high-impact” AI projects completed this year.
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Corporate VPN startup Tailscale secures $230 million CAD Series C on back of “surprising” growth
Company achieves $2 billion CAD valuation after doubling customer base in 10 months.
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Can Intel’s new CEO make a difference?
'Don't have the headphones on': Safety urged as B.C. bears emerge from hibernation
Officials are urging residents to be alert and secure their garbage bins as B.C.'s bears wake up from their winter hibernation over the coming weeks.
Medexus is a “Strong Buy”, Raymond James says
Glowtify wants to be the AI-driven marketing solution for lean e-commerce teams
Montréal-based startup secures $825,000 in pre-seed financing from angel investors.
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Manitoba researchers decry funding cuts after premier's invitation to U.S. scientists
A call from Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew for scientists in the U.S. to consider moving here has researchers in this province demanding more funding to give those who relocate a reason to stay.
#TheMoment an endangered tortoise became a first-time mom at almost 100
Rachel Metz of the Philadelphia Zoo recounts the moment ‘Mommy’ — a 97-year-old Western Santa Cruz Galapagos Tortoise — produced four new hatchlings, becoming the oldest known first-time mother of her species.
Canadian scientist wins Breakthrough Prize for discovery of hormone used in Ozempic, Mounjaro
Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist and a clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto and the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Sinai Health, shares the $3 US million prize with four colleagues from the United States and Denmark.
Kepler Communications sells its first on-orbit compute power to Axiom Space
The Toronto firm’s satellite constellation will help power an orbital data centre
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Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources
The e-commerce giant expects AI to be used in prototyping, and adds AI evaluation to performance review.
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Toronto's University Health Network launches scientist recruitment campaign amid U.S. health cuts, layoffs
Toronto's University Health Network says it has a new plan to recruit the best and brightest medical scientists from around the world, including the United States, where the government is laying off thousands of health researchers.
CVCA calls for temporary capital gains reduction, national investment tax credit in pitch to federal parties
Proposal also asks next government to follow through on VCCI, SR&ED reform, and domestic pension investment.
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$6.00 a share is fair for Converge Technology Solutions, Ventum says
With 8.7 million birds dead, B.C. farmers assess avian flu toll, and worry about what's next
There is a window of relief for British Columbia farmers from the devastating waves of avian flu, leaving them to assess the toll of outbreaks spanning more than three years that saw millions of birds culled at hundreds of farms. But they also worry what the next migration of wild birds will bring this year.
Spring goose hunters look to experts with questions about the spread of avian flu
First Nations in northeastern Ontario are preparing for the spring goose hunt, but while the deeply significant cultural tradition is eagerly anticipated, it’s tinged with anxiety this year as well thanks to reports of avian influenza in southern Ontario.
Microsoft thinks AI agents will eat the world
Plus: Shopify, Lightspeed among Canadian tech stocks dragged down by tariffs.
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UK-based Osney Capital eyes Canadian cybersecurity startups with 50-million-pound first fund
Osney wants to help Canadian startups expand to Europe and bring UK startups here.
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Katherine Homuth revisited
SRTX founder’s comments on fundraising & “losing her voice” worth revisiting with her impending departure.
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