It appears the pandemic left some deep wounds in the economy, something few economists saw coming | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 2 months ago

Tech firm listed on $1.2M ArriveCan contract never worked on it, CEO says

ThinkOn CEO Craig McLellan said he was surprised to read in The Globe and Mail that his company was listed as the sixth-ranked company in terms of federal outsourcing contracts related to developing and maintaining the ArriveCan app | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Is a ‘software engineer’ an engineer? Regulator says no, riling tech sector

The long-standing rift pits government-mandated engineering associations against the fast-growing tech industry that has used the well-worn title since the 1960s | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Elon Musk has gone too far. It’s time to boycott Tesla

Musk’s mirth has morphed into mayhem and decent people shouldn’t stand for it | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Alberta regulator insts anyone with the title “software engineer” must pay fees

The APEGA has asked a court to order one of Alberta’s leading software companies to stop using the term ‘engineer’ in job titles and postings unless it gets a permit | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Canadian tech companies created $54M ArriveCan app clones over a weekend

Lazer Technologies and TribalScale have announced that hackathons held over the Thanksgiving long weekend successfully reproduced clones of the app | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Young Canadians go to school longer for jobs that pay less

The problem is that Canada’s intergenerational system is so dysfunctional that hard work and good planning can’t achieve the same standard of living as they did just a few decades ago, says Paul Kershaw in this column | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Canadian companies planning hackathons to show ArriveCan shouldnt have cost $54M

A Globe and Mail analysis of federal contracts related to the ArriveCan app also found that the company that received the most federal work on the app – GCstrategies – has fewer than five employees | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

ArriveCan’s $54M price tag ‘outrageous,’ tech leaders say

Canadian technology leaders question why the government did not use a Canadian developer to create the ArriveCan app rather than 23 separate contractors | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

A much different world: Investors in stocks, bonds and real estate won’t like it

The markets have yet to discount a ‘70s-like era of low growth and high inflation. Older investors have seen that movie before – and it doesn’t end well | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

The Canadian tech boom is fizzling out

More than 81,000 people have been laid off from the tech sector worldwide this year, including thousands at Canadian companies like Shopify and Wealthsimple, and further cutbacks are likely | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

The ArriveCAN app needs to go

The government’s justifications for mandatory use of the app are increasingly tenuous and set a worrying precedent | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Why our ‘right to own’ is important in a subscription-based world

When we live under this tyranny of subscriptions, we risk marching into that very realm that years ago we thought was only comedy – a clown world, a metaverse in real life | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Opinion: Covid-19 almost certainly did not come from a lab leak

Much has been said about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, despite the lack of peer-reviewed scientific analysis. Now, we can safely say that it emerged from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Vatican encouraged colonization of Indigenous lands – enabled Crown to keep them

An abridged trip through 500 years of papal and legal history to understand why Pope Francis faces calls to renounce the Doctrine of Discovery, which underpins Europe’s heist of the Americas and a mass dispossession of Indigenous peoples that remains foundational to Canadian sove … | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

A coding error caused Rogers outage that left millions without service

Documents disclose how a coding error triggered the massive Rogers outage that left millions of Canadians without service for at least a day | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

A major solar storm can strike Earth. We need to be ready

The Rogers outage exposed our reliance on technology. But that would be a mere hiccup in comparison with what could happen if a flood of particles from the Sun strikes the Earth’s magnetic field | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Shopify cancels fall internships, pauses recruiting for further roles

Students who had picked Shopify for their co-ops in the fall term are now scrambling to make alternative plans while being locked out by a majority of tech companies that have already secured their new cohort of recruits | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Rogers outage: Canada’s failure to set up secure network for emergency service

Some of the chaos experienced by first responders amid Rogers outage could have been avoided if Ottawa had delivered on an 11-year-old promise to establish a secure wireless network for emergency services | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Consider the Octopus and How It Could Change Our Ideas About Meat

Octopuses are smart, playful and emotional in ways humans haven’t begun to understand until recently – just as companies are about to farm more of them than ever for food | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Ex-Japanese PM Shinzo Abe shot during speech

Abe was conscious when he entered the ambulance but went into cardiac arrest soon after and is not showing vital signs, according to public broadcaster NHK. A suspect is in custody, police say | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Burnt-out Canadian nurses are shipping out for better working conditions and pay

Experts and advocates say the time is now to stem this brain drain by giving nursing professionals the support they need | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Several U.S. states launch investigations into crypto firm Celsius Network

The move by Celsius last week to halt all transactions and withdrawals put nearly two million customers in limbo | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Galaxy Digital, a crypto company, became a global juggernaut – then crashed

While late last year the company was worth $14-billion, Galaxy Digital’s share price has crashed 81 per cent since November | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Crypto company Voyager Digital warns of $655 M loan default, shares plummet

At the end of March, Voyager, which went public in Canada in 2019, had lent $2-billion worth of crypto assets, according to its quarterly filings | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

New Quebec language bill could cause ‘permanent damage’ to tech sector

The leaders of 37 Quebec-based tech companies are calling for a freeze on the implementation of the controversial language legislation, Bill 96 | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Big hit in store for Canadian tech sector as wave of layoffs looms

Canadian tech sector players are telling startups to protect capital, as a wave of layoffs and hiring freezes is set to hit Canada hard | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Quebec pension manager and WestCap invest $400M in Celsius

Cryptocurrency platform Celsius Network has a core business focus of retail and institutional investors, and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has contributed its investment in the company | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Canada and Denmark reach settlement over disputed Arctic island, sources say

Hans Island, also called Tartupaluk, lies midway between Canada’s Ellesmere Island and Danish territory of Greenland | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

The corporate dash to buy up dentists’ offices, vets and pharmacies

Fuelled by international private equity funds, consolidating firms have been on a tear in health-professional fields, buying up practices in fields such as veterinary medicine, dental care, optometry and pharmacies and assembling them into chains | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

BlackBerry’s $600M patent sale hits a snag

Company says it’s pursuing ‘alternative options’ after delays in closing of sale announced in January | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

B.C. to decriminalize small amounts of ‘hard’ drugs – a North American first

The decriminalization of small amounts of illicit substances – such as illicit fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine – in B.C. is made possible by an exemption from federal drug law. It will take effect Jan. 31, 2023 | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

The great junk transfer is coming

Sorting, storing and disposing of old family belongings will be a labour-intensive challenge in the next decade as baby boomers age | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

How the West lost Putin (2014)

The rhetoric is as stark as the situation: Western leaders comparing Vladimir Putin to Hitler, and the Russian President responding with fury about how he was pushed into a corner over Ukraine. As Mark MacKinnon writes, the bad blood is 15 years in the making – and it didn’t have … | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Netflix shareholders sue over subscription drop disclosures

A lawsuit accuses Netflix and its top executives of failing to disclose that its growth was slowing amid increased competition and that it was losing subscribers on a net basis | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 1 year ago

Angela Merkel’s nuclear folly fuelled Putin’s ambitions in Ukraine

The former chancellor’s decision to close eight of Germany’s nuclear plants after the Fukushima disaster in 2011 diverted significant energy funds toward Russia over the next decade | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 2 years ago

Shopify to overhaul employee compensation with choice between cash and stock

The Ottawa-based company made the changes because a one-size-fits-all strategy no longer served the company | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 2 years ago

A global economic Cold War is coming

If the confrontation with Russia spreads to China, the result could easily be worldwide recession, stock market crash | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 2 years ago

Poland ready to place all MIG-29 jets at the disposal of the U.S.

Poland is ready to deploy all their MIG-29 jets to Ramstein Air Base and place them at the disposal of the U.S. “The authorities of the Republic of Poland...are ready to deploy – immediately and free of charge – all their MIG-29 jets to the Ramstein Air Base and place them at the … | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 2 years ago

After another wave of sanctions, many Putin associates remain untouched

Only six individuals on a list of 35 people drawn up by allies of jailed Kremlin and Putin critic Alexey Navalny have so far been subject to sanctions by Western countries | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 2 years ago

One in five Canadian home purchases is made by an investor

The surge in interest from investors, who provide the bulk of the country’s rental units, is feeding record levels of home construction and ramping up demand for real estate | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 2 years ago

Trudeau accuses Conservatives of standing with ‘people who wave swastikas’

House of Commons Speaker cautioned PM against using ‘inflammatory’ language during Question Period | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 2 years ago

Leak site says it has list of Canada truck convoy donors after reported hack

A leak website announce it has truck convoy donor information from GiveSendGo, including names, email addresses, zip codes, and IP addresses | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 2 years ago

Lightspeed founder Dax Dasilva steps down as CEO

President JP Chauvet to take reins as Montreal company reports better-than-expected Q3 earnings; Dasilva to become chair | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 2 years ago

On Jan. 23, a convoy of big rig trucks embarked for Ottawa from Vancouver in protest of the federal government’s new COVID-19 vaccine mandates for cross-border truckers | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 2 years ago

Canadian startup Kepler stirs debate with planned fleet of internet satellites

The Canadian company is jockeying with SpaceX, Amazon and Telesat for room in orbit for tens of thousands of new machines. Critics say the space race could come at a cost on Earth | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 2 years ago

Facebook will let Kazakhstan government directly flag content it deems harmful

Critics say authorities of the autocratic nation of 19 million of seeking to gain new censorship tools, while the Kazakh authorities say the aim is to prevent cyber-bullying and the spread of other dangerous content | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 2 years ago

Ontario to propose ban on non-compete clauses for employees

Labour Minister says legislation would attract tech talent, protect workers | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 2 years ago