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Alex Riehl

Alex Riehl

Alex Riehl is an Ottawa-based staff writer and newsletter curator at BetaKit. His main interests are in tech, gaming, and sports. You can follow his sports takes @alexriehl.com on Bluesky and reach him by email Alex.Riehl@betakit.com or Signal: @riehlalex.99.

Assent CEO Michael Southworth in front of the company's Ottawa headquarters.

Assent makes first acquisition deal with purchase of German firm IPoint

July 9, 2026

Ottawa centaur says deal will help expand its supply-chain compliance platform.

MDA Space will buy 567-million-euro majority stake in French satellite company

July 9, 2026

Acquisition will create one of the largest space-based geointelligence businesses in the world, MDA says.

OpenText lays off two percent of its workforce

July 8, 2026

Roughly 400 global employees are now out of work, but OpenText says Canadian impact is “minimal.”

Evan Solomon speaks on stage with bright lights behind him.

Winnipeg adtech Taiv among recipients of PrairiesCAN AI adoption funding

July 8, 2026

Canada’s AI minister announces $10.2 million for six Manitoba businesses.

a group of five people is meeting in a board room with the logo of the Well Health company on the wall

Well Health to spin out and publicly list pure-play software business on TSXV

July 7, 2026

Vancouver-based healthtech has been preparing to spin out Wellstar since 2024. 

four people in business casual clothing post together.

Canada’s telco and banking incumbents form AI consortium

July 7, 2026

Scotiabank, Sun Life, Telus, and Lightworks team up to build AI infrastructure at the enterprise level.

Francois Phillipe Champagne on stage at All IN

Canada’s real-time rail system will launch this year after achieving “critical milestone”

July 7, 2026

After years of consultations and delays, finance minister approves the RTR system’s bylaw and rules.

A transport truck zooms down a freeway

Descartes cruises into Latin America with acquisition of last-mile management platform Drivin

July 6, 2026

Waterloo-based logistics tech firm makes its 37th acquisition since 2016.

Five people in business casual clothing post together with a "Buy Canadian" sign.

Feds revamp procurement rules to make it easier to buy from Canadian small businesses 

July 6, 2026

New Small Business Procurement Program will standardize contracts and integrate AI.

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Scandium Canada acquires, rebrands ski-maker Ferreol Technologies

July 3, 2026

Ferreol’s alloys built high-performing skis. Scandium wants to use them to make spacecraft one day.

Canadians can once again access Anthropic’s Fable after US lifts ban

July 2, 2026

Anthropic says the jailbreak that prompted the contentious foreign-access ban worked on other AI models, as well.

A man in a wheelchair poses in front of a police station.

Vancouver Police sergeant becomes first Canadian ALS patient to receive Neuralink brain implant

July 2, 2026

Toronto’s University Health Network debuts new neurosurgical technique to insert Elon Musk-owned medical device.

US finance app SoFi acquires Composer to add AI investing strategies

June 30, 2026

Acquisition of Toronto FinTech bolsters SoFi’s case to be “the everything app for digital financial services.”

InvestEco Capital raises $106 million for fourth sustainable food fund

June 29, 2026

Toronto-based investor targets companies promoting a healthier, more sustainable food sector.

Deep Sky delivers North America’s first direct air capture carbon credits

June 29, 2026

Montréal-based company’s Alberta facility pulled carbon straight out of the air on behalf of RBC and Microsoft.

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