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McGuinty urges businesses to ‘take risks’ as Canada builds defence-tech ecosystem

Canadian entrepreneurs must take risks if they want to cash in on billions of dollars in business opportunities as the federal government ramps up military spending, defence minister David McGuinty said Tuesday.

Mitel names veteran tech exec Ben Macdonald new sales channel chief

Mitel has hired a new executive whose mission is to grow the telecommunications company’s network of sales...

Ottawa firm helps companies navigate industry regulations with AI

With smaller businesses increasingly relying on AI to streamline certain tasks, one Ottawa-based expert warns that the technology is currently not good at parsing Canada’s complicated regulatory standards, putting some SMEs at risk.

Kanwal Rekhi brings hard-won lessons from Silicon Valley to Ottawa

Kanwal Rekhi arrived in America with $8 in his pocket.  It was 1967, and the Indian government had...

Techopia: Is Ottawa the country’s biggest tech wealth generator? | Episode 298

The narrative surrounding the Canadian tech sector often focuses on boom-and-bust cycles, brain drain, or the historical...

This Ottawa startup uses ‘vibe review’ to connect romance readers with books

For years, Natasha Tardioli kept a spreadsheet tracking romance books. Every novel she finished got its own row. Every book she wanted to read went on a list. She tracked it all year by year and, by the end of each year, she got to see how many books she had read.

Ottawa’s Hyperion aims to scale up ‘carbon-recycling’ tech with help from MaRS, cement giant Amrize

Hyperion Global Energy Corp. has been refining a patented system that captures flue gas from cement manufacturing and converts it into calcium carbonate, a mineral compound used as an antacid and as filler in toothpaste, paint, cement and other products.

Ericsson to launch wireless technology test site at Area X.O, and other tech news

Ericsson Canada is partnering with the federal government to create a wireless communications testing ground in Ottawa’s...

Burgeoning Ottawa-area defence firms say ‘the sky’s the limit’ as crowds swarm to CANSEC

As crowds milled around the Airbus helicopters and Saab fighter jets at last week’s CANSEC trade show,...

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