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An Edmonton-based FinTech company that manages tips and staff wages is in hot water after dozens of customers in British Columbia say it abruptly stopped distributing money, leaving some businesses in the hole for tens of thousands of dollars.
Global News reports that clients of Everyday Payments allege money from the digital wallets the platform uses to store client tips or staff wages appears to have disappeared from their accounts or not been released. Everyday Payments is a division of...

Over the past decade, Josh Ogden has watched Canada’s robotic industry shift away from building core technologies and towards assembling systems that are designed elsewhere.
It wasn’t always this way. Canadian companies like Aeryon Labs and Deep Trekker developed military-grade platforms and specialized robotics, owning both the technology and the manufacturing. But many were later acquired by foreign buyers, and Ogden believes...

Halifax’s pHathom Technologies has secured $4 million in seed funding to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ocean-based bioenergy facilities.
pHathom plans to use this capital to pilot its coastal carbon-capture technology in projects across Atlantic Canada. Those projects will ideally help the company refine and validate its approach to prepare it for wider deployment....

Earlier this week, Canada’s innovation ministry shared the results from the 30-day national consultation it held late last year to inform the country’s upcoming AI strategy. The consultation included feedback from 28 members of Canada’s AI task force...