It appears the pandemic left some deep wounds in the economy, something few economists saw coming | Continue reading
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
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
Musk’s mirth has morphed into mayhem and decent people shouldn’t stand for it | Continue reading
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
Lazer Technologies and TribalScale have announced that hackathons held over the Thanksgiving long weekend successfully reproduced clones of the app | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
The government’s justifications for mandatory use of the app are increasingly tenuous and set a worrying precedent | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Experts and advocates say the time is now to stem this brain drain by giving nursing professionals the support they need | Continue reading
The move by Celsius last week to halt all transactions and withdrawals put nearly two million customers in limbo | Continue reading
While late last year the company was worth $14-billion, Galaxy Digital’s share price has crashed 81 per cent since November | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
Hans Island, also called Tartupaluk, lies midway between Canada’s Ellesmere Island and Danish territory of Greenland | Continue reading
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
Company says it’s pursuing ‘alternative options’ after delays in closing of sale announced in January | Continue reading
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
Sorting, storing and disposing of old family belongings will be a labour-intensive challenge in the next decade as baby boomers age | Continue reading
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
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
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
The Ottawa-based company made the changes because a one-size-fits-all strategy no longer served the company | Continue reading
If the confrontation with Russia spreads to China, the result could easily be worldwide recession, stock market crash | Continue reading
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
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
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
House of Commons Speaker cautioned PM against using ‘inflammatory’ language during Question Period | Continue reading
A leak website announce it has truck convoy donor information from GiveSendGo, including names, email addresses, zip codes, and IP addresses | Continue reading
President JP Chauvet to take reins as Montreal company reports better-than-expected Q3 earnings; Dasilva to become chair | Continue reading
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
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
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
Labour Minister says legislation would attract tech talent, protect workers | Continue reading