Month: July 2021

The Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) fund is supporting a new facility in southern Alberta that will create jobs and cut emissions by transforming agricultural waste. Alberta’s government is using $4.7 million from the TIER fund through Emissions Reduction Alberta to create a $28.6-million facility in Lethbridge County that […]

Since launching in May, the Alberta Jobs Now program has approved approximately 2,700 applications from employers. This will help nearly 14,000 Albertans get back to work in the coming months. This is a clear signal that Alberta’s economy is ready to reopen, recover and grow. The program is seeing the […]

TORONTO, July 21, 2021 /CNW/ – Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) today announced plans to create 300 technology roles at a new Calgary Innovation Hub scheduled to launch this September. The Hub will help grow the city’s tech ecosystem with meaningful tech jobs in high-demand areas such as artificial intelligence, data engineering, full stack […]

Edmonton, AB – July 14, 2021 – AltaML, a leading applied AI studio, is excited to announce a collaboration with Microsoft Canada and the University of Waterloo to deliver work- integrated learning experiences for students as a part of the Waterloo Experience (WE) Accelerate program. As a part of the 10-week […]

The project, kick-started with $18.6 million over three years in Budget 2021, will allow Calgary to produce its own consistent supply of radiopharmaceuticals – a special class of drug that can help diagnose and treat many types of cancers, bone disease, strokes, epilepsy or dementia. Quick facts A cyclotron is […]

Edmonton’s tech sector labour force grew by more than 50 per cent over five years, the largest increase in North America, as the city cracked CBRE’s top 50 markets for the first time. According to the real estate organization’s annual Scoring Tech Talent report released Tuesday, Edmonton is the 38th […]

There are now multiple contenders for the Silicon Valley of the North title: Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, and Edmonton are among the fastest growing talent pools for tech in North America, according to a new report from CBRE Group.  Background: CBRE Group, an American real estate and investment firm, compiled data on North America’s […]

Need to go from Edmonton to Calgary? With emerging hyperloop technology being developed by Canadian-based TransPod, the journey could soon take roughly an hour without having to set foot on an airplane or burn fossil fuels. According to a feasibility study recently released by TransPod, the system will carry passengers […]

A small Calgary-based fintech startup has been granted regulatory approval by the Alberta government to provide custody services of cryptocurrency for institutional investors, effectively making it the first regulated custodian based in Canada that will store digital assets. Tetra Trust Co. is led by Eric Richmond, who is also the […]

SkyWatch Space Applications Inc. (“SkyWatch”), a Waterloo-based space technology startup, announced today it has signed an agreement to deliver data management capabilities to Wyvern, a commercial satellite company headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 2018, Wyvern was created to make high-quality hyperspectral data accessible and affordable.Wyvern’s data will unlock […]

Professional engineer Vivin Thomas, capital projects engineer with the Calgary Parking Authority, drives around the concrete-laden and tree-flanked roads of the East Village in the black BMW he spends his spare time fixing up. He zooms beside, atop, and below his past development projects, while a basketball lolls about in […]

Calgary, AB, March 24, 2021 — The Clean Resource Innovation Network (CRIN) announces $80 CAD million for three large-scale technology competitions that will create positive environmental improvements for Canada’s oil and natural gas industry and end users. Through the Government of Canada’s $100 million commitment from the Strategic Innovation Fund, CRIN’s three […]