Canada Technology

Feds struggle to table Fall Economic Statement following Minister Freeland’s shock resignation

Mini-budget with many tech commitments comes during a day of chaos on the Hill. The Government of Canada barely tabled its Fall Economic Statement (FES) after a day of political chaos and uncertainty. The Liberal government was thrown into turmoil following the surprise resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland hours […]

Canada Technology

Champagne, Conservatives point fingers as Canadian cleantech startups suffer continued SDTC funding delays

Startups face layoffs and cancelled contracts to cover SDTC financing shortfalls, BetaKit has learned. The sluggish restart of embattled federal cleantech investment agency Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) has left some of the early-stage cleantech startups the organization was designed to support still waiting for promised funding. With those startups cutting staff and projects […]

Canada Technology

Call for US government to better protect the elderly

File photo: A therapy dog visiting an elderly man in a nursing home. — © Karen Graham A researcher is pushing ahead for a new policy framework to help the aging population in the U.S. This includes providing additional state support and preventing societal abuse of older people. The director of the Center for Gerontology and professor […]

USA technology

Antony Blinken Dragged US Diplomacy Into the 21st Century. Even He’s Surprised by the Results

Look, what I’ve seen since coming back to the State Department three and a half years ago is that everything happening in the technological world and in cyberspace is increasingly central to our foreign policy. There’s almost a perfect storm that’s come together over the last few years, several major developments that have really brought […]