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This Toronto startup’s warning about school admissions fraud fell on deaf ears for years

Meagan Simpson March 21, 2019

Academic admissions fraud has been in the spotlight after federal prosecutors in the US indicted 50 people for allegedly bribing…

Sera Wong March 21, 2019

Short-term lending platform Progressa has announced that it has surpassed a self-proclaimed milestone of $100 million in funded…

Sera Wong March 21, 2019

The seventh edition of Traction Conf is set to take place in Vancouver this upcoming August. The conference will be hosting…

Sera Wong March 20, 2019

PitchIt, an interactive pitch event designed to connect entrepreneurs with potential clients and angel investors, will be taking…

Sera Wong March 20, 2019

York University is now accepting applications for the newest cohort of its four month accelerator program, designed to support…

Sera Wong March 20, 2019

Aexos (Advanced Exoskeletal Systems), a Kickstarter-funded wearables company based in Waterloo, has announced the first shipment…

Sera Wong March 20, 2019

A recent study revealed that nearly half of Canadian consumers would share personal information, such as location data and…

Isabelle Kirkwood March 20, 2019

At the beginning of February, global accelerator program Techstars commenced its second cohort in Toronto. The cohort is comprised…

Meagan Simpson March 19, 2019

The Canadian government has tabled its #Budget2019. This government’s previous budgets have featured significant investments…

Isabelle Kirkwood March 19, 2019

The arrival of Collision Conference, which lands in Toronto for the first time this May, has encouraged several organizations…

Isabelle Kirkwood March 19, 2019

Wealthsimple and tax prep company H&R Block have announced a partnership to provide Canadians with a solution to grow their…

Isabelle Kirkwood March 19, 2019

NexTech AR, a developer of a proprietary augmented reality (AR) advertising platform, is looking to acquire an unnamed ecommerce…

Amira Zubairi March 19, 2019

Last week, the University of Ottawa law faculty’s All Sorts of Torts club and the Telfer School of Management’s Entrepreneur’s…

Caitlin Hotchkiss March 19, 2019

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) has announced the creation of a $250 million fund for Québec businesses with…

Shruti Shekar March 18, 2019

Facebook Canada launched the Ad Library tool ahead of Canada’s federal election later this year in an effort to promote transparency.…