The future is here. Sidewalk Labs, Google sponsored organization, opened their office in Toronto. Their goal would be to “re-imagine Toronto and other cities to improve quality of life.” Their office and community space will be located at 307 Lake Shore Boulevard East – where anyone will be able to pop in and discuss the future … Continue reading Sidewalk Labs Launches Toronto Office
Toronto airport officials finally announced that now you can use Uber or Lyft to get home. You were always able to use Lyft or Uber to be dropped off at any location, including the airport, but now you have an option of getting picked up at the airport as well. Basically now, when you arrive … Continue reading Uber / Lyft is Now Available at Toronto Pearson Airport
Quebec based startup Breather, a network of beautifully designed workspaces offering individuals and businesses practical, distraction-free spaces, with more than 500 Locations worldwide and growing, raised $60m Canadian. We have profiled Breather before and you can access the article here. This $60m will bring the total money raised to $120m. Most of the financing was … Continue reading Breather, Montreal Startup similar to WeWork, raises $60m
As you probably know already by receiving hundreds of emails about it, Europe has introduced a new draconic law called General Data Protection Regulation which states what you can do and can not do with data that you have collected. The GDPR for short has come into effect as of May 25th, 2018. Maybe you have … Continue reading Canadians Travelling to Europe: It is Now Illegal To Take Pictures
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Sun Life Financial among others have backed a new fund, Luge Capital, with $75 million dollars (with the possibility of topping it to $100m in the coming months) that aims to provide funding to fintech as well as artificial intelligence. The main goal of the fund would … Continue reading Canadian New VC Fund Launched
Government of Quebec has finally woken up by putting a stop on cryptomining in Quebec by temporary suspending sale of electricity to miners of crypto currencies. Quebec’s super cheap hydro rates attracted hundreds of crypto-miners from around the world. China and South Korea have recently banned mining and threaten companies to cease all operations. As … Continue reading Quebec Considers Restrictions Against Cryptominers
The federal liberal government is warning technology media companies in Canada to play nice and add Canadian content ASAP or else. The government announced that they will take 18 months to study how they can force tech companies operating in Canada to add more Canadian content without any cost to Canadians. Meaning at least for … Continue reading Canadian Govt is Picking Fight with Facebook, Netflix, others
