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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.

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Thinkific lays off 30 percent of employees as part of enterprise push

September 24, 2026

EdTech company cuts 96 employees as it pulls away from ā€œvery smallā€ business customers.

BlackBerry's Waterloo Campus

BlackBerry reports strong Q2 earnings thanks to automotive software revenue jumpĀ 

September 24, 2026

Former handheld giant raises its fiscal outlook after surpassing its own expectations.

Jack Newton and John Stackhouse on stage together

Clio CEO Jack Newton says Canadian VCs need to give companies a ā€œhome-field advantageā€

September 24, 2026

Canadian VCs have pushed Clio for discounted terms. Newton argues it should be the other way around.Ā 

Kyle Lowry Nrth 2026

Nrth Festival’s inaugural opening night was a prompt to bring human control back to tech

September 23, 2026

Tech leaders talk human agency in the AI world as GROAT Kyle Lowry encourages entrepreneurs to chase their ā€œyes.ā€

Nrth Festival Opening Night 2026

Elevate transforms into Nrth Festival in opening-night rebrand

September 22, 2026

After nine years as Elevate, tech festival updates name to provide direction in an increasingly uncertain world.

The Heidi team.

Heidi invests nearly $26 million to establish Toronto as North American headquarters

September 22, 2026

Australian healthtech plans to hire 30 more staff in Canada, its second-largest market.Ā Ā 

Altis Labs raises $25 million USD Series A to expand AI for cancer trials

September 21, 2026

New funding will help build out a platform designed to detect treatment effects sooner.

Shopify becomes OpenAI’s first e-commerce partner with ChatGPT Ads integration

September 18, 2026

Integration allows merchants to sync storefronts and advertise directly inside ChatGPT in the US.

Aidan Gomez at ALL IN 2026

Aidan Gomez says Cohere won’t get into the business of making chips

September 17, 2026

Toronto AI company won’t follow competitors in pursuit of in-house semiconductors.Ā 

OpenAI Goerge Osborne's on stage at ALL IN

OpenAI managing director says Canada an ā€œobvious placeā€ for data centre

September 17, 2026

George Osborne also praised the country’s efforts to solicit international investment and boost AI adoption.

A person in green scrubs and a face mask sits at a computer terminal

Terry Fox Research Institute commits $25 million to AI powered health projects

September 16, 2026

Fourteen Canadian projects can use TFRI’s secure platform to analyze ā€œvast amounts of complex health data.”

Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio’s LawZero receives $300 million backing from Canada and Germany to pursue safer AI ambitions

September 16, 2026

Non-profit startup will use the funding to establish a Berlin office and a Canadian sovereign compute partnership.

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Cohere reaches terms with German peer Aleph Alpha to take on AI giants

September 16, 2026

Combined company will retain the Cohere name and become dual-headquartered in Toronto and Berlin.

A BDC sign.

BDC outlines how it will deploy $1 billion from its Defence Platform into funds and startupsĀ 

September 15, 2026

Crown corporation increased direct defence investment capacity and pledged more to defence-focused fund-of-funds.Ā 

Mark Carney at Sask. data centre announcement

Bell announces $50-billion buildout to produce Canada’s largest data centre in Saskatchewan

September 14, 2026

Non-binding MOU would be largest private capital investment in province’s history, quadrupling planned capacity.

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