Thanks so much for having me on this week's episode of the @betakit.com podcast 🇨🇦!

Working in #CDNmedia can be fun AND interesting AND important. @betakit.com wants to tell every #CDNtech story across the country. Come join us. ⤵️

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Big @betakit.com scoop on changes at @omersventures.bsky.social. One #CDNtech #VC just told me that the "pensions are all retreating back to Canada." @madisonmcla.bsky.social has a first file with more coming from her and Josh Scott.

Is this abundance?

Goodbye to Masai Ujiri as president of the Raptors. The dreams stayed big: it was the owners who got small. www.thestar.com/sports/rapto...

Ambition is the word of #TorontoTechWeek, but #CDNtech ambition didn't start on Monday. For more than a decade, @ericmigi.com has been chasing a specific dream. He won't let anything get in his way. For #MostAmbitious, the rise and fall of Pebble, and why this time will be different.

Was great chatting with @aaron.bsky.team today (twice!). Looking forward to dropping our podcast next week.

Breaking: Toronto Mayor @mayoroliviachow.ca kicked off BetaKit Town Hall #MostAmbitious by announcing 50 percent off city bike share for @TOtechweek attendees all week!

In the US, money is speech. Canada has robust laws to regulate political fundraising & spending by parties, candidates & 3rd party groups. They ensure free & fair elections, & help protect against foreign interference in our politics. Rubio doesn’t mention Canada, but we should worry.

Hearing @jay.bsky.team talk at Web Summit Vancouver reminds me of why I fell in love with social media in the first place. The open web can still be a beautiful thing.

A new BDC Capital (@bdc-ca.bsky.social‬) report urges a "collective wake-up call" for domestic #VC investment as CVCA conference Invest Canada kicks off in Calgary. #CDNtech

BetaKit (@betakit.com) bopped around Alberta this week, hitting up Inventures in Calgary and Upper Bound in Edmonton.

BetaKit wants to report locally and connect nationally. Today's announcement is a big step forward in achieving that mission. No better time to announce than during #Inventures2025 and #UpperBound25. YEGAF? YEGAF!

TIL @betakit.com is active on here

This is such a tell.

Some horrifying details on the white supremacist book purge at the Naval Academy library: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

“Changes nothing”: #CDNtech still in limbo as country escapes worst of US tariff wave.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.

Is the new Hamilton Leithauser release the Album of Spring? (this is a very BlueSky post)

It's a Carney cabinet shuffle. @madisonmcla.bsky.social has the latest on Canada's new innovation minister. #CDNtech #CDNpoli

THANK YOU. Bring back Canadian heritage moments, too. If FB won’t comply, boot them from the country.

In which @jessebrown.bsky.social gets me to distinguish between #CDNtech and media coverage of #CDNtech and everyone is happy with the results.

Grandpa, Did You Fight in the Trade War? @trondizzle.bsky.social co-hosts

BREAKING: Ontario

Black merchants disheartened after Shopify guts another Equitable Commerce program.

Depressing brilliance from my pal Ruben Bolling.

I don't even care if we win tonight, I just want to see American blood on the ice.

Colleagues, please stop this kind of reporting. It’s as offensive as “Who would be the local governor in Russian-ruled Ukraine?”

BDCCapital targets late-stage tech companies with nearly $1 billion in new fund commitments #CDNtech #VC

We are living through a future Humanities class on the fall of Liberalism:

Making sure folks realize that Alex Spiro is both Musk’s attorney and Eric Adams’ attorney.

Same day. Same hour, almost

Musk killed these people.

Spoke to someone this weekend who articulated the battle of our time as 'People wanting to do something *to* govt vs do something *through* govt.' America is currently losing that battle.

This was a really fun, sprawling conversation about subversiveness, competition, and the norms that hold Canada back. Plus basketball, AI, Startupfest, and lots more. Thanks, @trondizzle.bsky.social!

Co-author of Just Evil Enough: The Subversive Marketing Handbook, @acroll.bsky.social wants to shake up Canada’s go-to-market approach. How much evil in #CDNtech is enough?

We just published a 3,000 word feature on Elon Musk's incursion into the federal government. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

US pauses tariffs on Canada as two countries work through new border commitments #CDNtech #CDNpoli

A 30-day détente to the dumbest trade war in history. Developing story, but here's what we know: #CDNtech #CDNpoli betakit.com/us-pauses-ta...

Ontario to cancel $100 million Starlink contract in response to US tariff threat. #CDNtech #CDNpoli

When is the Dirt Man guy scheduled to go on at the Grammys? My pillow is ready.

Shopify CEO commits to ‘buy local’ features for Shop app after criticizing Canada’s tariff response. #CDNtech #CDNpoli

We are so fucking back

Reminder: The Constitution says Congress regulates trade. The president imposing tariffs is an abuse of emergency powers. There is clearly no US national security emergency regarding Canada. Media might not care, weaklings in Congress might want to forfeit their authority, but still, facts matter.

Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated another government agency: the General Services Administration. His former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access GSA's tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more:

Liberal government continues with the charade while Liberal leadership candidates promise to kill or change the cap gains tax. Incredible and ongoing self-own for this government. #cdnpoli #Cdntech #boondoggle

"It’s crucial that Canada has a healthy tech ecosystem and that Canadians are able to build and innovate." We couldn't agree more, Pod the North. Thanks for naming The BetaKit Podcast one of the seven podcasts every Canadian should subscribe to in 2025.