A woman from Vietnam said she wanted to come to Canada to develop and sell wearable sensors for weightlifters. Her chosen path: apply for a special visa reserved for startup founders. But upon ...
Canada’s Start-up Visa Program is being quietly recast as a cautionary tale, framed by recent headlines as a magnet for fraud and abuse rather than its original purpose. It was intended to be a ...
The cafés along King Street are packed with laptop screens that are dimly illuminated by the winter light on a chilly afternoon in Toronto’s downtown tech district. A few founders gather around a ...
As Canadians search for ways to grow our economy in the face of a global trade war, our political leaders should take another look at one failed federal policy that’s just waiting to be dusted off and ...
Boris Wertz and Lucy Hargreaves discuss what a 10 to 35-year wait says about Canada's capacity to attract entrepreneurial talent. About a decade ago, the federal government launched SUV, the Start-up ...