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BetaKit @betakit.com · 28/04/2026

While Canada’s AI strategy is still delayed, we now know the six pillars that will define the feds’ plan for artificial intelligence.

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 28/04/2026

Five takeaways for tech and innovation from Canada’s Spring Economic Update 🇨🇦🧵

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 17/04/2026

Some of the most important moments in tech don’t happen on stage. They happen in rooms someone decided to host. A panel. A dinner. A hackathon. Toronto Tech Week creates the moment. Hosting is how you show up to it. → Submit your event: tinyurl.com/TTWHOSTS

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.@mila-quebec.bsky.social says its new partnership with @mozilla.org could help open up “a different way of building and thinking about AI.” Read more: betakit.com/mila-teams-u...

At CIX Summit, Sentinel R&D CEO Kath Intson argued it is “not enough to just onshore some other company’s capability and call it Canadian.” Read more: betakit.com/defence-tech...

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UPDATE: @opentext.bsky.social says its latest round of layoffs affected 4% of its staff. That's somewhere in the range of 880 people. Read more: betakit.com/opentext-emp...

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Opendoor has rented out a floor at King Street and Spadina Avenue in central Toronto and wants to hire about 100 people. CEO Kaz Nejatian says he wants to make the city a hub, but that the company has no immediate plans to enter the Canadian market. Read more: betakit.com/opendoor-hir...

CAAIN's latest competition will focus on bridging the gap between new AgTech IP and its commercial adoption. Read more: betakit.com/caain-launch...

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Wealthsimple has cleared an initial regulatory hurdle to enter prediction markets. The company has received initial CIRO approval to offer forecast contracts, though it says it has not announced any product plans at this time. Read more: betakit.com/wealthsimple...

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Dominion Dynamics says Canada can be a leader in autonomous systems for extreme environments. Its new partnership with Denvr Dataworks is aimed at building the sovereign AI simulation infrastructure to help get there. betakit.com/denvr-datawo...

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 13/03/2026

Chexy started by helping tenants earn credit card rewards on rent. Now, it wants to become a broader payments hub for Canadian households and SMBs—and stay entirely Canadian as it does. betakit.com/chexy-raises...

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4-day workweek advocate Jared Lindzon says working more doesn't really increase your output, or the value of your work. Instead, stepping away and recovering lets you to do better work overall. Would a 4-day workweek make you more productive, or just leave you with more work to catch up on?

BetaKit @betakit.com · 26/02/2026

🎂 Today, BetaKit turns 10 🎂 On February 26, 2016, BetaKit spun out on our own and officially became BetaKit Incorporated. That was the moment we became like so many of the companies we cover: a Canadian startup 🧵

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 13/02/2026

How much transparency does the government owe us when it uses #AI to help create policy? Jaxson Khan and @trondizzle.bsky.social sort through transparency, accountability, and answer whether the government should show us its prompts. Their full chat is here: betakit.com/an-insiders-...

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 12/02/2026

Canada can never own the entire #AI ecosystem, so the country must be strategic. Jaxson Khan argues the signals Canada sends about AI might be more important than the money it pours into the technology. Listen to Jaxson's full interview on The BetaKit Podcast: betakit.com/an-insiders-...

BetaKit @betakit.com · 11/02/2026

Jaxson Khan gives an insider’s take on Canada’s #AI task force report. The former ISED senior policy advisor says Canada needs to get its ducks in a row to have any hope of keeping control of its AI future. Listen to his full interview on The BetaKit Podcast: betakit.com/an-insiders-...

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 06/02/2026

Some people aren’t “unemployable.” They were just never going to be employees in the first place. Humi co-founder Kevin Kliman on founders, agency, and why entrepreneurship pulls certain people out of the workforce. Listen to The BetaKit Podcast for more: betakit.com/canadas-job-...

BetaKit @betakit.com · 05/02/2026

The uproar in #CDNTech after @ycombinator.com.web.brid.gy stopped directly investing in Canada-domiciled startups wasn't really about a terms of service change at the accelerator. On the BetaKit Podcast, John Ruffolo breaks down what Canada is getting wrong. Listen now: betakit.com/why-y-combin...

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 29/01/2026

Do you know the wild story behind the infamous "butt dial" that almost unraveled everything for a Rogers CEO? Michael Healey recaps the scandal on The BetaKit Podcast. Listen for even more insight and history about one of Canada's most notorious business families: betakit.com/rogers-v-rog...

BetaKit @betakit.com · 19/01/2026

With local news under pressure and funding drying up, this innovative funding model could be a way forward for local tech journalism across Canada to bring more news coverage to areas that too often get overlooked. If you want to support local journalism in your area, email partnership@betakit.com

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 19/01/2026

BetaKit is officially on the ground in the Prairies 🌽💪 With the launch of our Prairies Bureau, and support from the not–for-profit YEGAF, we’re expanding local tech journalism with a full-time reporter and freelancers across the region. And we’re maintaining editorial independence as we do it. 🧵

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 19/01/2026

Michael Healey says his research into the Rogers family taught him that metrics and KPIs exist mostly to provide "cover" for the gut feelings of people with big egos and lots of power. Is he right? Listen to the full interview on The BetaKit Podcast: betakit.com/rogers-v-rog...

BetaKit @betakit.com · 16/01/2026

BetaKit's new Prairies reporter Jesse Cole and managing editor @sarahcrgr.bsky.social were at Edmonton Unlimited last night to celebrate opening our new Prairies Bureau. We're touched at the warm welcome, Edmonton, and we can't wait to tell even more stories of #Prairies innovation. Stay tuned.

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 15/01/2026

Colare co-founder Nain Abdi wants to live Canada. But he's building his business in Silicon Valley. He says he left Canada because SF offers opportunities he just can't get in the North. Abdi serves up more hot takes on The BetaKit Podcast. Listen now: betakit.com/its-valley-o...

BetaKit @betakit.com · 09/01/2026

Koho founder and CEO Daniel Eberhard was just one of 30 #CDNTech leaders we assembled to weigh in on what to expect from #AI in 2026. See all of their predictions here: betakit.com/thirty-bold-...

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 09/01/2026

.@colareai co-founder @nain_abdi didn't really believe the Silicon Valley hype. Until he went there. On The BetaKit Podcast, he explains why nowhere in Canada can truly match the environment, attitude, and way of life in the Valley. Listen here: betakit.com/its-valley-o...

BetaKit @betakit.com · 01/01/2026

ICYMI: BetaKit published a series looking back at Canada's biggest tech stories of 2025, and what they tell us heading into 2026: betakit.com/tag/cdntech2...

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 30/12/2025

So many tech platforms have decayed beyond usability. Can we reverse the process? BetaKit is ending the year with a look back at the biggest #CDNtech stories of 2025. Here's @sarahcrgr.bsky.social on the year enshittification became undeniable: bit.ly/4pg0kJq

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 23/12/2025

Money talks in tech, but so do founders. In 2025, some of Canada’s most influential tech leaders leaned hard into #AI. BetaKit is ending the year with a look back at the biggest #CDNtech stories of 2025. Here's Trevor Nichols on the year every Canadian startup went AI-first: bit.ly/3YGrsGH

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 22/12/2025

With billions set to flow into the country’s defence industry, Canadian tech is angling for a cut. BetaKit is ending the year with a look back at the biggest #CDNtech stories of 2025. Here's Josh Scott on the year Canadian tech embraced defence. bit.ly/4spMOWK

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 22/12/2025

In 2025, Canada woke up to the possibility of buying and building Canadian. Real change depends on what happens next. Here's @madisonmcla.bsky.social on the year Canada realized it needs sovereign tech: bit.ly/4920aiU

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 02/12/2025

What do AI agents do on QuickBooks on the Intuit platform? We asked.

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 26/11/2025

"The dogs bark and the caravan moves on." At SAAS NORTH, Evan Solomon praised Canada's entrepreneurs, and gave them a message to not take critics too seriously. On the BetaKit Keynote Stage with C100's Michael Buhr, Solomon talked #AI and the government's role in the #Innovation economy.

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 14/11/2025

🍁 Canada is trying to figure out what economic sovereignty looks like when it can no longer rely on the US. Aptum CEO Ian Rae says the government must value competition, not picking winners. 🎧 Listen to the full interview on The BetaKit Podcast betakit.com/what-the-aws...

BetaKit @betakit.com · 13/11/2025

Aptum CEO Ian Rae says the latest AWS outage was a wakeup call: the physical location of information on the cloud has consequences and firms that don't consider that can end up with big problems. 🎧 Listen to Ian's full interview on The BetaKit Podcast: betakit.com/what-the-aws...

BetaKit @betakit.com · 12/11/2025

Breaking: award-winning journalist Sarah Rieger (@sarahcrgr.bsky.social) joins as managing editor to lead the newsroom and grow @BetaKit.com’s nationwide tech coverage. betakit.com/sarah-rieger...

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 10/11/2025

Is Canada sleepwalking its way into a new economy? Aptum CEO Ian Rae says Canada has lost some self-awareness. As the US fractures old ties, it's time for Canada to rethink its economic relationships. Listen to the full interview on The BetaKit Podcast: betakit.com/what-the-aws...

BetaKit @betakit.com · 07/11/2025

Vidyard and Garage Capital founder Michael Litt had a bold message for SAAS NORTH: SaaS is dead. Emerging instead is #RaaS, or "results as a service." Litt warned that in a world bloated with #SaaS licences, fatigued customers just want to see return on invested capital.

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 07/11/2025

At #SASSNORTH, Eliot Pence said #DefenceTech might feel like a captive market in Canada, but founders still have to work hard. "I don't want to just be a Canadian company. I want to be a Canadian company that goes global."

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 06/11/2025

At #SAASNORTH, Harvest's Matt Himel argued it's his responsibility as a Canadian to help make the country's economy better. He said founders leaving because things aren't getting better can create a self-fulfilling prophecy---but he wants to break that cycle. @SAASNORTH #CDNTech

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 04/11/2025

Source Canada's Raymond Luk says choosing to build in Canada shouldn't be a compromise, and shouldn't earn you a "badge of honour." A lot of founders stay—and succeed—but conditions need to be better. Listen to the full interview on The BetaKit Podcast: betakit.com/why-canada-d...

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 31/10/2025

Why do CAN founders have so much trouble selling at home? Source Canada's Ray Luk says there are two options: Canadian startups are bad (he doesn't buy it) Buyers here don't want to take risks on a homegrown company. Hear Luk's full interview on the BetaKit podcast: betakit.com/why-canada-d...

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 30/10/2025

Source Canada founder Ray Luck says #CDNTech founders are starting at a disadvantage because it's often so hard to find buyers in their own backyard. 🎧 Listen to the full interview on The BetaKit Podcast: betakit.com/why-canada-d...

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 24/10/2025

Can Canada build its own social network? As American social media platforms get more toxic, @gandersocial.bsky.social's Ben Waldman says this is the moment for a "safer," "saner," and completely Canadian social media. Listen to the interview on The BetaKit Podcast: betakit.com/canada-gande...

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 17/10/2025

If #AI is like an intern, it's hard-working but very naive. Tailscale's Avery Pennarun breaks down why giving this intern access to your company data (which firms are racing to do) could mean disaster. Full interview on The BetaKit Podcast betakit.com/tailscale-ce...