Ransomware and Small Businesses: How Attacks Happen and How to Protect Yours
In June 2023, a criminal group called Akira got into the systems of KNP Logistics, a British trucking firm with more than 500...
Layla LevesqueOctober 7, 2026
Passkeys and the End of Passwords: How They Work and How to Switch
In 2024, Microsoft says it was seeing about 7,000 password attacks every second, more than double the rate a year earlier. That figure...
Layla LevesqueOctober 7, 2026
Government Funding for Canadian Startups: SR&ED, IRAP, BDC and More, Explained
On March 26, 2026, Bill C-15 received Royal Assent, and with it one of the most meaningful changes to Canada's research tax credit...
Layla LevesqueOctober 7, 2026
Why Startups Fail: What the Post-Mortems and the Data Actually Show
On December 27, 2024, Bench Accounting, a Vancouver company that had raised more than US$100 million, told thousands of small-business customers it was...
Layla LevesqueOctober 7, 2026
Canadian Startup Success Stories: What Shopify, Clio, Cohere and Others Actually Teach
Shopify began life in 2004 as Snowdevil, an online store for snowboards run out of Ottawa. The founders could not find e-commerce software...
Layla LevesqueOctober 7, 2026
Startup Funding Stages Explained: From Pre-Seed to Series C, With the Canadian Numbers
In the first quarter of 2026, Canadian startups closed just 104 venture deals worth about $936 million, according to the CVCA's quarterly market...
Layla LevesqueOctober 7, 2026
How Large Language Models Work, Explained Without the Hype
In June 2017, a team of eight researchers working at Google posted a paper with a cheeky title: "Attention Is All You Need."...
Layla LevesqueOctober 7, 2026
Canada’s AI Story: From Hinton’s Lab to the Sovereign Compute Push
On September 30, 2012, a small team from the University of Toronto entered an image-recognition contest called ImageNet. Their neural network, later known...
Layla LevesqueOctober 7, 2026
How Small Businesses Are Really Using Generative AI
In the spring of 2024, Statistics Canada asked thousands of businesses a simple question: had they used artificial intelligence to produce goods or...
Layla LevesqueOctober 7, 2026
