We had a pretty rough month. Being home isolated – especially if you have recently been laid off or lost some revenue and have to take care of kids staying home from school is not easy. We have decided to compile some help that is available to help you through this crisis. Wage subsidy:75% wage … Continue reading Covid19 / Coronavirus Resources
Most of us in Canada and the US are now on lockdown. Our employers require us to work from home for the next few weeks or so. Here are five tech tips for you to check out to improve your collaboration when dealing with clients and colleagues. Tip 1 – Use Your Webcam Wisely We … Continue reading Working From Home? Check Out These 5 Tech Tips
Mixonset is the best way to discover music that fits your vibe. It’s like having a personal DJ in your pocket that curates the music you listen to by suggesting exactly the songs that you’re feeling in the moment. Mixonset’s AI also beat-matches your Spotify playlist so that everything sounds great together, and even creates … Continue reading Montreal Mixonset AI Startup Helps To Discover Music
The Collision conference in Toronto with over 30,000 attendees from 125 countries will be cancelled as per their press release this morning. Instead the conference will be taking place online only, as Collision from Home . Collision is a very popular tech conference taking place once a year in Toronto bringing startups, venture capitalists and … Continue reading Largest Tech Conference in Canada Is Cancelled Due to CoronaVirus
Canadian government says that it now requires cell phone companies like Rogers, Bell and Telus to lower its cell phone bill by 25% within the next 2 years or face consequences. Innovation, Science and Industry Minister Navdeep Bains says that unlimited talk-and-text plans that offer two gigabytes, four gigabytes and six gigabytes of data need to … Continue reading Ottawa Requests Wireless Providers to Lower PriceS
Part time delivery employees at Foodora, online food delivery company, have decided to unionize. The Ontario Labour Relations Board said today that since Foodora part time employees are dependent contractors they can unionize. Until today, Foodora employees were considered independent contractors, and had no legal right to unionize and did not have the same benefits … Continue reading Foodora’s Couriers To Unionize in Ontario
Update #1: The company in this story, Clearview AI, has just been hacked and more than 2,200 organizations spanning law enforcement to universities have their information accessed. Clearview has clients such as US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Justice, the FBI, Macy’s, Best Buy. In Canada multiple police agencies have used them such … Continue reading UPDATED: Canadian Privacy Agency to Investigate US Facial Recognition Firm
