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Inside Sapper Labs, the veteran-led Ottawa firm wiring Canada’s defence intelligence

A few months before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, an Ottawa-based defence-tech company was already tracking the Wagner Group, Russia’s shadowy mercenary army, and passing intelligence about it to the Canadian, American and Ukrainian governments, according to Sapper Labs Group CEO Allen Dillon. In a recent interview with...
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