The popular virtual-world app hired much of its local staff after COVID-19 hit

Participants did not know source of US$450,000

Approvals pending to convert RCAF directorate-general to full military unit, add personnel

Global attention as courts put Bitcoin’s censorship resistance to the test

Tech giant’s behind-the-scenes campaign involves hardball tactics, spending on think tanks

Jessica Galang will be joining The Logic as a reporter based in Toronto.

In-depth reporting on the innovation economy.

The Toronto fintech firm becomes the first company that is not a bank or a credit union to gain approval

The Logic has hired two new assistant editors, Aaliyah Dasoo and Sebastian Leck. Read more in this note to staff from deputy managing editor April Fong and managing editor Jordan Timm.

Jenna Zuschlag Misener, former executive director at the Banff Forum, will become chief operating officer at The Logic.

BlackBerry's former co-CEO also called on the federal government to place domestic entrepreneurs at the head of innovation policy.

Hundreds of pages of evidence released after The Logic’s legal challenge

TrafficJunky provides advertising services to controversial Montreal-founded company behind Pornhub

Filing follows class action proposed in Quebec last year

Pledge answers calls from industry and researchers for rapid increase in processing power.

Which investors cash in, how the deal came together, and what this means for Canadian tech.

The $7 million will be used to mount public-awareness campaigns and increase digital literacy

The fund is seeking investors and portfolio firms from underrepresented groups, including women, Indigenous and LGBTQ2 communities

The appointment stems from years-long consultations led by former BlackBerry executive Jim Balsillie to close the gap between public research funding and commercialization

New regulators, expansive definitions and reporting requirements a how-to for authoritarian regimes, critics say

Natural Resources Canada wants nuclear energy off exclusion list for environmental investments

Kevin Carmichael joins The Logic as economics columnist and editor-at-large. Read more in this note to staff from managing editor Jordan Timm.

An explanation for our readers—and for the public

Toronto-based firm hopes to redeem the industry’s tarnished reputation

‘Quebec companies need to rely on global recruitment and immigration,’ reads letter to Legault

AI leaders pan Center for AI Safety’s statement on technology’s apocalyptic potential

The angel network raised $10 million across three early-stage funds meant to attract investors new to venture and angel funding

‘For a particular esoteric math problem, this is the most powerful quantum computer on Earth’

The deal limits the development to Toronto’s Quayside, and makes data a public asset

Embattled scholarship body funded by taxpayers one of many not to meet standards

How a Nordic entrepreneur’s transatlantic plans could help (finally) connect Iqaluit to the modern internet

'We all live on the same planet; we all have to use the same information environment'

School seeks returns from $25M fund’s investments in startups

‘You’re going to need a global playbook’

The problem: they can’t figure out whom to go after to recoup it

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Some of the last generation of local startups failed to meet lofty expectations, but the region is betting on a new focus

The Vancouver company is the standard-bearer for Canada’s biotech resurgence, but while its COVID-19 treatment has been authorized, it has yet to reach patients.

Complex corporate structure makes it difficult to determine who is benefiting from its operations

The storied made-in-Canada tech company is run from California

‘We’re hearing from Amazon workers right across the country’

Nearly 98 per cent of the companies that went public via an IPO on the TSX between 2016 and 2020 had a male CEO at the time of listing

A new report challenges the belief that lack of funding is preventing Canadian companies from scaling

The incoming executive director of the Future Skills Centre wants to set up retraining centres across the country

CEO Frederic Lalonde is rapidly expanding his hotel business and adding new flight products

In an extended interview with The Logic, Bains detailed the Liberal government’s new agenda

The decision came after Alberta froze a R&D tax credit

‘We understand the power of setting big goals and rallying everyone around them. Government can do this, too’

Profitability will be key as VCs make more thoughtful investment decisions

Tech companies are urging Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to address a dispute over job titles they say could crimp the province’s efforts to attract talent

'I've watched this movie many times. It's like a rerun'

Foreign platforms may opt to bar Canadian users rather than face compliance burden

The corporation needs substantial reform if it’s to thrive in the next decade

The Times isn’t looking to strip The Athletic for parts. It is a news organization that understands great journalism can sell subscriptions

Co-founder Farhan Mohamed moves to OMG board.

It was pitched as a can’t miss bet on clean energy. Now it’s stalled under curious circumstances

The on-demand office space firm is also leasing out an entire building for the first time

The Logic surveyed 38 of the innovation economy’s leading players to find out what policies have been put in place