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Open Banking in Canada: Where Consumer-Driven Banking Stands Now

On June 27, 2026, Ottawa published the proposed Consumer-Driven Banking Regulations in the Canada Gazette. It was a dry document, full of uptime...

How Open-Source Companies Actually Make Money

In February 2025, IBM closed its $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp, the company behind Terraform and Vault. Eighteen months earlier, HashiCorp had stopped...

Remote, Hybrid or Back to the Office? What the Data Actually Says

On July 6, 2026, most of Canada's core federal public servants were required to be at their desks four days a week, up...

Satellite Internet and Rural Canada: Starlink, Telesat Lightspeed and the Real Costs

In late September 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney said something that would have sounded strange from a Canadian leader only a few years...

What’s Next for EV Batteries: Cheaper Chemistries, Solid-State Hype and Canada’s Mixed Bet

In February 2026, Chinese automaker Changan and battery giant CATL showed off a small electric car called the Nevo A06 with something unusual...

The Right to Repair Movement: What the New Laws Mean for Your Next Phone or Laptop

On October 5, 2026, a quiet but significant change hit every electronics shelf in Quebec. Under the province's planned obsolescence law, new cellphones,...

Why Computer Chips Became Geopolitics, and Where Canada Fits

In the second quarter of 2026, one company took in 72.5 cents of every dollar spent on contract chipmaking worldwide. That company is...

The State of Quantum Computing in 2026: Qubits, Error Correction and Canada’s Contenders

On March 27, 2026, a Toronto company that builds computers out of light started trading on both the Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock...

Phishing in the Age of Deepfakes: Voice Clones, Fake Video Calls and How to Verify

Early in 2024, a finance employee at the Hong Kong office of Arup, the British engineering and design firm, joined a video call...