By Dana O’Born, CCI Vice-President of Strategy and Advocacy With the Alberta legislature wrapped-up for the holidays, the upcoming provincial election is now looming larger than ever. New Premier Danielle Smith has been busy putting her stamp on the Alberta government, with a new cabinet, a byelection win, and cash…

By Nick Schiavo, CCI Director of Federal Affairs The holidays are upon us, Parliament is wrapping up and in the new year all eyes will be on the federal government to tackle Canada’s ailing economy. With a possible recession on the way, the Deputy Prime Minister has made it clear…

Par Pierre-Philippe Lortie, Directeur, Affaires gouvernementales, Québec Récemment, dans un café du quartier Outremont à Montréal, j’ai rencontré quelques PME du secteur des technologies et de l’innovation pour discuter de leurs priorités pour 2023. Ils ont commencé par les défis qui se profilent à l’horizon : incertitude économique croissante, marché…

By Pierre-Philippe Lortie, CCI Quebec Director of Government Affairs At a café recently in Montréal’s Outremont neighbourhood, I met with a local technology CEO to discuss their priorities for 2023. They started with the challenges they see on the horizon: growing economic uncertainty, a tight labour market, supply chain shortages…

This time of year, you’ll hear a lot of bells ringing inside the Ontario Legislative Building at Queen’s Park. They are not part of the holiday decorations that adorn the nearly 130-year-old building, or instruments used by local school groups during their lunchtime choir presentations on the grand staircase. Instead…

Jobber is a fast-growing CCI member company headquartered in Alberta. For more than a year, CEO and Co-Founder Sam Pillar has been navigating an ongoing legal battle with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) over whether tech companies can use the title of “software engineers.” But…

By Dana O’Born, CCI Vice-President of Strategy and Advocacy The British Columbia legislature has wrapped up its fall session, and when MLAs return in 2023, the provincial budget will be looming large. This fall, it wasn’t the legislature that dominated B.C. politics. It was the handover from retiring Premier John…

Intellijoint Surgical is a Canadian medical device company based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont. Founded in 2010, Intellijoint has developed technology that helps surgeons operate more precisely and safely when performing hip and knee replacements. Their technology has been used to perform more than 40,000 surgeries in Canada, the United States, Australia…

Lesley Gouldie is the President and CEO of Thornhill Medical a Canadian scale-up technology company and a CCI member. Recently, Thornhill Medical stepped up to donate their technology to medical professionals in Ukraine. CCI President Benjamin Bergen chatted with Thornhill Medical CEO Lesley Gouldie about the story behind their work. …