Tech school, MakerKids, opening first Toronto franchise in June
MakerKids, the Toronto-based tech education company and kid-oriented maker space, has announced it is expanding its robotics, coding, and Minecraft programs with a franchise…
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Canada’s tech talent industry tracks renewed interest with permanent Global Talent Stream
Among the federal government’s proposals in #Budget2019 last month, the Global Talent Stream (GTS) was made permanent. Launched in 2017 as a pilot project,…
Ample Labs supporting Toronto’s homeless population with chatbot
Ample Labs, a Toronto-based non-profit that builds technology solutions for the homeless community, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund the development of ChalmersBot….
Kids Code Jeunesse launches initiative to educate one million kids about AI
Kids Code Jeunesse, a Canadian non-profit teaching children to code, has announced a new initiative, #kids2030, aiming to educate one million kids about AI,…
Indigenous social enterprise wins top prize at AC Youth Innovation Summit
On March 28, twelve young Canadians gathered at the third annual Active Citizens Youth Innovation Summit on Parliament Hill, where they showcased social action…
PwC Canada reveals finalists for 2019 Vision to Reality Awards
PwC Canada has announced the twenty finalists of its 2019 Vision to Reality (V2R) Awards, which was open to organizations of all sizes, from…
Silicon Valley FinTech, Plaid, expands coverage in Canada
Plaid, a relatively ‘under-the-radar’ San Francisco-based FinTech, that is used by many other FinTech companies across the United States and Canada, has gained momentum…
Coinberry, Innisfil partnership makes it first Canadian municipality accepting crypto
Coinberry, a Toronto-based digital crypto platform, has formed an agreement with the Town of Innisfil in Ontario , providing its buying service to allow…
Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio receive Turing Award, ‘the Nobel Prize of computing’
Two of Canada’s notable pioneers in AI have been named co-winners of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their work in deep neural…
Government proposing new framework to regulate Canadian retail payment ecosystem
Budget 2019 dropped a week ago, and one of the objectives outlined in the document included “supporting an innovative and well-functioning Canadian payments system”….
Tatari betting on a repatriated Canadian to build core engineering team
BetaKit’s Due South series profiled Canadian entrepreneurs who founded companies in the United States, and in recent years, many of those entrepreneurs have returned…
Trexo Robotics wants to redefine mobility for children with disabilities
Trexo Robotics, a company which aims to redefine mobility solutions for people of all ages and abilities, was recently featured as one of the…
Future Cities Canada launches network to accelerate innovation in smart cities
Future Cities Canada, a national initiative aiming to accelerate the transformation of open smart cities, has launched The Community Solutions Network, a new platform…