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Amara skips both the climate doom and the climate hype, chasing instead whatever's actually been built, permitted, and plugged into the grid.
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Opinion: By adopting a QSBS-style tax regime, Ottawa is finally acknowledging that competing for clean tech and innovation talent requires a level playing field with the South.
Voters approved restrictions on data center development in all but one of 41 local measures, threatening a fragmented deployment landscape.
The federal government's $1.6 billion CAD commitment to AI developer Cohere marks a strategic move to build domestic champions.
The agency is shuttering a 20-year project to develop emissions measuring tools for concentrated animal feeding operations, effectively granting a reprieve to the livestock industry.
As venture capital dips and funding sources shift, the path from pilot project to commercial deployment remains the most precarious phase for Canadian cleantech.
As venture capital dips and funding pillars shift, Canada's climate tech sector must navigate the 'first-of-a-kind' deployment gap to move from innovation to global impact.
Opinion: Canada has the tech, but scaling hardware requires more than networking—it requires a solution for the massive capital gap facing first-of-a-kind plants.
As venture capital for Canadian cleantech dips, the upcoming MaRS conference focuses on the high-cost leap from pilot projects to full-scale industrial deployment.
Opinion: To move from innovation to impact, Canada must solve the 'first-of-a-kind' financing gap and the risk-aversion currently stalling its best climate hardware.
With a pipeline of ready-to-market tech but dwindling venture capital, the challenge for Canadian climate ventures has shifted from invention to the grueling logistics of commercial scale.
The upcoming conference aims to bridge the gap between pilot projects and commercial deployment amid a decline in venture capital investment.
As the Carney government weighs the implementation of a green taxonomy, the real economic risk is not the transition itself, but the failure to lead the industrial shift.
Integrating 'age-tech' into modular housing isn't just about individual care—it's a blueprint for resilient, adaptable city living.
Opinion: A 20% jump in cooling efficiency could be a climate game-changer, but the real test for Pascal is whether it can replace legacy systems fast enough to matter.
By funding SMRs, Amazon is signaling that the battle for AI supremacy is now a battle for dedicated, carbon-free baseload energy.
Cities and states are creating a patchwork of regulations to manage autonomous vehicle deployment amid congressional gridlock.
New data reveals a widening gap between the rapid scalability of renewables and the stagnant reality of nuclear power.
While industry leaders highlight agriculture's appetite for early adoption, the path from innovation to farm-gate deployment remains the critical hurdle for the next tech boom.
By scaling in-house battery production and deploying off-grid solar plants, Ambrosia Energy aims to undercut the natural gas turbines currently fueling the data center boom.
Scaling clean tech isn't just about breakthroughs in the lab; it's about eliminating the million-dollar mistakes on the factory floor. San Francisco startup Niobia is betting that AI-driven defect detection is the key to commercial viability.
Industry experts and Edmonton-based organizers highlight agriculture as a prime sector for rapid technology validation and scalable innovation.
In the race to scale cutting-edge engineering, the agricultural sector is emerging as a critical proving ground where technical founders can bypass regulatory bottlenecks and validate innovations in real-time.
As AI demand strains the grid, Petra Power's solid oxide fuel cells offer a pragmatic path to scaling data centers by stripping electrons directly from fuel.
A new foundry program launching in 2027 aims to move science- and engineering-driven startups from the lab to the market by tackling the high capital and long development cycles of deep tech.
Oil companies are petitioning the high court to block state-level liability claims, arguing federal law preempts local efforts to seek damages for climate-related harms.
While the IEA highlights aligning costs and security, researchers warn that high upfront costs and trade barriers could stall the transition.
While the IEA argues that cost, security, and climate goals are aligning, researchers warn that infrastructure costs and political interests remain significant barriers.
Models of local data control are coinciding with faster AI adoption among Indigenous workers and founders in Canada.
Opinion: Far from being a regulatory roadblock, the shift toward localized data ownership is the essential infrastructure needed for AI to thrive in a fragmented world.
Animikii's #DataBack movement challenges colonial data structures to prioritize collective ownership and community control.
A year after unveiling Master Plan IV, Elon Musk's promises of a futuristic utopia remain vague as the company pivots toward a broad marketing slogan.
President Trump and leading AI executives agree to self-regulation through the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities.
Opinion: Rather than fearing the 'AI mania' that dominated New York Climate Week, we should view the data center boom as the necessary catalyst to scale grid infrastructure.
Quartermaster's massive funding surge signals a critical shift toward real-time ocean intelligence in an era of global shipping instability.
The Crown corporation's inclusion in the international network aims to connect Canadian defense startups with global capital and military demand.
With a $60 million CAD close, the Toronto-based firm is eschewing speculative moonshots in favor of deployment across climate and work tech.
By focusing on scalable deployment across climate and work tech, the Toronto-based firm signals a shift toward cross-sector impact over speculative bets.
The Toronto-based firm is shifting toward larger checks and scalable deployment across Canadian early-stage startups.
With a $60 million CAD close, the Toronto-based firm is prioritizing scalable deployment across climate and work tech over speculative bets.
By focusing on scalable climate and work tech rather than moonshots, the Toronto-based firm is betting on cross-sector impact to drive returns.
A leaked pitchbook from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit reveals a massive appetite for AI data centers and carbon capture, but the gap between 'permitting' and 'construction' remains wide.
The startup aims to lower the cost of extracting uranium from the ocean to support U.S. nuclear expansion goals.
A leaked prospectus for Prime Minister Mark Carney's Canada Investment Summit reveals a massive array of tech and energy projects, but a closer look shows a stark divide between those under construction and those still seeking a blueprint.
A leaked pitchbook reveals a massive slate of AI data centers and carbon capture projects ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s investment summit.
Opinion: Prime Minister Mark Carney's ambitious $1 trillion investment goal depends on whether theoretical 'AI-ready' hubs and carbon capture projects can actually break ground.
Governor Maura Healey is requiring facilities over 25 megawatts to provide their own clean power or pay into a protection fund.
PacifiCan invests $11 million into Northern BC organizations to buffer against US trade volatility, including a push for marine-grade solar panels.
Rather than waiting for futuristic energy breakthroughs, tech giants are reviving mothballed reactors to fuel the AI boom.
Emissions Reduction Alberta is deploying $51 million into 16 innovation projects, but historical performance suggests the real challenge lies in moving from funding to actual emissions cuts.
Emissions Reduction Alberta is funding 16 projects to decarbonize resource-based industries, but historical results show mixed success in meeting forecasts.
Funding from the TIER Fund targets emissions reductions across resource-based industries, from carbon capture to drone-led infrastructure.
While hyperscalers absorb the cost of the AI arms race, Canadian startups and hardware makers face a double squeeze of skyrocketing component prices and aggressive new trade barriers.
The deal allows MediaTek to design custom AI chips that integrate directly into Nvidia's data center ecosystem, hedging against the shift toward vertical integration by hyperscalers.
As fish farms from Hungary to Bosnia collapse under extreme heat, the shift from emergency pumping to hard-tech water retention becomes a matter of economic survival.
Opinion: While trade wars grab the headlines, a deeper hardware crisis is threatening to price Canadian startups out of the AI race.
While new tariffs create market uncertainty, rising hardware costs driven by AI infrastructure demand may pose a more systemic risk to Canadian startups.
As the technology moves toward commercial application, industry leaders are focusing on workforce capacity and hybrid AI integrations to solve complex real-world problems.
Opinion: While AI chips get the glory, the actual bottleneck for data center expansion is 19th-century hardware. Solid-state transformers are the pragmatic solution we need.
Changes to Canada's SR&ED program aim to support the capital-intensive leap from laboratory breakthroughs to commercial reality.
Changes to the SR&ED program restore capital expenditure eligibility, aiming to support the physical infrastructure required for tough tech deployment.
Opinion: The science of clean tech is proven, but the path to market is treacherous. New R&D rules addressing capital expenditures are a critical step in ensuring Canadian breakthroughs actually get deployed.
New updates to the SR&ED program restore capital expenditure eligibility and raise spending limits, offering a critical lifeline for climate and deep tech firms moving from lab to market.
Changes to Canada's SR&ED program restore capital expenditure eligibility, aiming to help deep tech firms bridge the divide between laboratory breakthroughs and commercial deployment.
By targeting the high-stakes environment of commercial kitchens, an Ohio startup using infrasonic waves to snuff out fires is attempting to bypass the legacy costs of water and chemical suppression.
The African defense tech startup aims to reduce reliance on fragmented international supply chains by building autonomous systems and combat vehicles.
A public prediction record for Amara Diallo’s calls is coming soon.