Sonder co-founder Francis Davidson departs after seeing through Marriott deal
Outgoing CEO said orchestrating the Marriott integration was “the hardest thing” he’d ever done.
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These massive waves used to be the stuff of legend
Once dismissed as a maritime myth, rogue waves are now being recorded in Canadian waters more than ever. A network of AI-powered buoys off the coast of B.C. is capturing these giants in real time. Johanna Wagstaffe meets the engineer developing new tools to understand — and maybe one day forecast — their chaotic nature.
Curious great white shark circles lobster boat off Cape Breton, chomps briefly on hull
A Cape Breton lobster fisherman and his crew had the encounter of a lifetime this week when a 4.5-metre great white shark circled his boat just off Sight Point, coming close enough to briefly bite the hull.
NiaHealth raises $5.75 million as it hopes to become a household name in preventative healthcare
Rapidly growing healthtech startup has majority of its backing from Canadian investors.
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Beacon raises price target on GRID to $5.50
Bombardier will benefit from higher defense spending, this analyst says
This time, Eric Migicovsky won’t let anything get in his way
A decade after the death of Pebble, the company's founder is still chasing his dream smartwatch.
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Build Canada appoints Lucy Hargreaves to CEO as tech think tank expands mandate
Policy platform will open-source its projects and fund Canadian initiatives.
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Scientists studying suspected Lake Superior meteotsunami that left residents 'in awe'
The massive fluctuations in Lake Superior's water levels have caught the eye of scientists, who think they're the result of a type of tsunami wave called a meteotsunami. Meteotsunamis are driven by air-pressure disturbances often tied to fast-moving weather events such as severe thunderstorms and squalls.
Aggressive cougars shut down biking trails in Whistler, B.C., area
More cougar sightings in B.C.'s Sea-to-Sky region have led to trail closures in the resort municipality of Whistler and in the Garibaldi Lake area.
Western Canadian glaciers melting twice as fast as they did a decade ago, research shows
Researchers say some glaciers in Western Canada and the United States lost 12 per cent of their mass from 2021 to 2024, doubling melt rates compared to the previous decade.
Geoffrey Hinton says AI companies resistant to “regulations with teeth” in lively debate with Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst
Nobel laureate and his former protégé headline public debate on AI at Toronto Tech Week.
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“Light, tight, right” regulation: Minister Evan Solomon unpacks how Canada plans to support domestic AI and quantum computing
Solomon says Canada must keep quantum industry and IP in Canada at CDL Super Session talk.
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Canadian FinTech community mourns Equitable Bank CEO Andrew Moor
Executives from Wealthsimple, Borrowell, and others remember leader and open banking advocate.
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Building Canada requires competition
Vass Bednar offers an ode to the ventures challenging our nation’s comfort zones.
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Is beaten down Descartes Systems a buy?
BlackBerry price target raised to (U.S.) $4.00 at RBC
Phil De Luna thinks Canada is the perfect place to store the world’s carbon
Deep Sky’s chief scientific and commercial officer on the rising stakes for carbon-capture technology.
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Ontario invests $235M in primary care teams
TORONTO — The Ontario government has announced a $235 million investment to support over 130 new and expanded primary care teams that will connect 300,000 people to primary care this […]
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Virtual care for kids rolls out in Saskatchewan
SASKATOON — A new virtual care program is aiming to improve access to specialized pediatric care for critically ill children in Saskatchewan. The initiative uses Teladoc remote presence technology to […]
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