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Toronto just landed third place among North America's top tech talent markets, trailing only San Francisco and Seattle. That's according to the commercial real estate leader CBRE's Scoring Tech Talent report, which placed Toronto above New York, Austin an

Some lessons on international expansion Lake Ontario is now Lake America, hockey sticks have been hit with a 50 percent tariff and Doug Ford is Captain Canada again? The intensified trade war is absurd on so many levels, but for the startup community it's

Exterra has developed a method of recycling corrosive chemicals as well as saleable minerals from waste materials. When the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran choked off the Strait of Hormuz earlier this year, the cost of gas shot up, as all drivers know, but so di

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Recent advances in AI have fundamentally changed how we predict the weather, making forecasting cheaper, faster and better - we can now track even the most unusual weather event with almost pinpoint accuracy. Such accuracy has never been more urgent. With

When Lianna Genovese saw the impact her mobility device could have on people, she "realized I had to continue." Seven years later, ImaginAble Solutions is now available in 26 countries around the world. "I'm an accidental entrepreneur," says Lianna Genove

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A sneak peek at our new life sciences report This morning, we released our annual Vital Signs report, a snapshot of the life sciences ecosystem. The bad news in it is familiar: Despite global excitement around ambitious health tech ventures, Canada still