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Notman House is in trouble. What’s next for the home of Montréal tech?

OSMO Foundation owes unpaid mortgage fees and creditors are pushing for a sale. Notman House, the Montréal startup hub run within a 187-year-old heritage…

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BetaKit Podcast episode on the Canadian health care crisis
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Canada is in a health care crisis. What’s the prescription?

Brett Belchetz (Maple) and Alexandra Greenhill (Careteam) diagnose the failings of Canada’s health care system. A recent Ipsos poll recently revealed that less than…

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What’s next for Shopify? | BetaKit

Business Insider’s Madeline Stone joins to discuss the end of Shopify’s “side quest” and future of Canada’s tallest tech poppy. On May 6 2020,…

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AI chatbots run amok
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Generative AI will test what’s worse: biased data or user bad faith

All year, on this podcast, we’ve been talking about the potential for generative AI. How it will change academia, our economy, our laws. How…

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Federal government introduces new legislation aimed at governing privacy, AI
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AI regulation is coming. What’s Canada’s approach?

Unpacking the legislative turducken that is Bill C-27. Welcome to the first BetaKit Podcast episode of the new year! When last we podded, we…

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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – What’s old is new again: Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny

Plus: Google employees have a bad feeling mass layoffs are coming. The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada…

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F|T: The FinTech Times – FinTech startups say what’s happening in Canada is “not normal”
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F|T: The FinTech Times – FinTech startups say what’s happening in Canada is “not normal”

Plus: Abraham Tachjian says open banking work “absolutely” on track. Welcome to the FinTech Times, a weekly newsletter covering the biggest FinTech news from…

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What’s behind the explosion in acquisition entrepreneurship?

Welcome to the entrepreneurial equivalent of glamping. I’m flying solo on the podcast this week as my co-host Rob Kenedi is off sipping Mai…

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