Should we get serious about bilingualism or is the debate around Air Canada’s CEO a sign that we’re not a serious country? @trondizzle.bsky.social co-hosts

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

🎂 Today, BetaKit turns 10 🎂 On February 26, 2016, BetaKit spun out on our own and officially became BetaKit Incorporated. That was the moment we became like so many of the companies we cover: a Canadian startup 🧵

How much transparency does the government owe us when it uses #AI to help create policy? Jaxson Khan and @trondizzle.bsky.social sort through transparency, accountability, and answer whether the government should show us its prompts. Their full chat is here: betakit.com/an-insiders-...

Literally the temperature I walked to the gym in with a Booster Juice on Monday.

Republicans: WE NOMINATE SKELETOR Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars. <Later> Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.

Grateful to see my 2026 tech predictions featured in @betakit.com! Even more rewarding: being included in such a strong slate of Canadian tech thinkers. 🇨🇦 👏

"Maybe we will see the robots that we want in our lives in 2026. But be prepared: they will definitely be controlled by people in India with Xbox controllers." In a lighthearted BetaKit Podcast, @trondizzle.bsky.social and @sarahcrgr.bsky.social tackle tech's biggest questions for 2026.

So many tech platforms have decayed beyond usability. Can we reverse the process? BetaKit is ending the year with a look back at the biggest #CDNtech stories of 2025. Here's @sarahcrgr.bsky.social on the year enshittification became undeniable: bit.ly/4pg0kJq

With billions set to flow into the country’s defence industry, Canadian tech is angling for a cut. BetaKit is ending the year with a look back at the biggest #CDNtech stories of 2025. Here's Josh Scott on the year Canadian tech embraced defence. bit.ly/4spMOWK

In 2025, Canada woke up to the possibility of buying and building Canadian. Real change depends on what happens next. Here's @madisonmcla.bsky.social on the year Canada realized it needs sovereign tech: bit.ly/4920aiU

Experts are missing AI-hallucinated citations—including fake authors and fake journal entries—in their peer review of academic papers. From @youcaughtscott.com for @betakit.com:

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?”