Tinker, tailor, soldier, trondizzle

On Sarah's first day, BetaKit surpassed our 2024 audience & readership totals. An auspicious start! Her experience & skillset ensure that what was once our ceiling becomes our floor. As ME, Sarah will shape the growth of our newsroom & its #CDNtech coverage. We’re just getting started. Let’s gooo.

This is a big win for #Cdntech and a bigger win for @betakit.com. Welcome aboard, Sarah!

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

On a recent podcast about BBM, The Verge's @reckless.bsky.social correctly summarized BlackBerry as a company built on navigating technical constraints. For the newsletter, I wrote a few words about why Gen Z is looking for new constraints in their tech use. betakit.com/gen-z-wants-...

Hey look, it's me referenced by my friends at BetaKit.

“It’s one thing to say ‘let’s do this in a sovereign way.’ It’s another to actually do it.” ^Ben spoke to @trondizzle.bsky.social from @betakit.com about being children of CanCon, giving people control of their feeds, and why sovereignty doesn’t mean isolation. More👉 betakit.com/canada-gande...

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