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• Technology Blog

  August 28, 2025

  Garage Secures US$13.5 million to Modernize Emergency Equipment Procurement

  Garage, an online marketplace for emergency vehicles and equipment used by fire and EMS departments, announced a US$13.5 million Series A funding round led by Infinity Ventures. The round also…
• Technology Blog

  August 27, 2025

  Bluesky Rolls Out New Community Guidelines

  Bluesky, a social network competitor of X, Threads and other open networks including Mastodon, is revisiting its community guidelines and other user policies to provide more clarity around user safety…
• Technology Blog

  August 25, 2025

  Perplexity AI’s All-Cash Bid for Google Chrome

  AI startup Perplexity AI has made an unsolicited US $34.5 billion bid to acquire Google’s Chrome browser. With over three billion users, Chrome is currently the most popular browser in the world…
• Technology Blog

  August 21, 2025

  Concordia University Students Launch ‘Starsailor’ Rocket from Northern Quebec

  Students from Concordia University’s Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science recently launched “Starsailor,” a rocket that a team of over 700 members developed over the past seven years…
• Technology Blog

  August 19, 2025

  BC’s Mushroom-Plucking Robots Harvest Big in Latest Round of Fundraising

  4AG Robotics, a British Columbia-based start-up that uses robots to harvest commercially grown mushrooms, has received a C$40 million venture capital investment to further develop its fungi-focused…
• Technology Blog

  August 16, 2025

  Canada’s New Virtual Hub for Wildfire Innovation and Knowledge Exchange

  With the increasing threat wildfires pose to the safety, health and economic wellbeing of Canadians and ecosystems across the country, the federal government has established the Wildfire Resilience…