News report: Canada’s new “Venture Catalyst Fund” invests in $46M Wattpad deal I’m so utterly confused. For years, Canadian entrepreneurs and VCs begged Ottawa to get involved in arresting the multi-year decline in our...
Yesterday’s Prime Ministerial announcement from innovation-focussed Montreal came as a relief. It had been almost 10 months since the Federal government unveiled the $400 million budget envelope designed to help get more capital into...
Does Canada have a start-up culture? Should governments be in the business of creating an environment of innovation and risk-taking? These were questions I was glad to see tackled by my morning newspaper over...
The wheels have turned for months on the proposed takeover of the TMX by a gaggle of Canadian financial institutions. This was to be expected, as was the feined concern about the deal being...
News report: Ottawa wary of Potash takeover When I read the views of unnamed sources in my morning newspaper, it can be fun to try to guess where they work, and even who they...
Some HR coaches will tell you that if you start doing a job, eventually someone will just give it to you. That must be what Ericsson was thinking when it offered jobs to 680...
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