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NS Youth Invited to Apply for Clean Leadership
Applications for Nova Scotia’s Clean Leadership Summer Internship Program open February 28th and close March 16th for youth 15-30 years old.
In preparation, organizers are hosting Skills Building Sessions to prepare youth for the job application
AVSS Bags $1.1M Testing Deal
Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions, the Rothesay, NB, maker of safety equipment for drones, has inked a $1.1 million deal allowing the federal government to test its Payload Precision Delivery System for airdropping supplies into isolated communities.
BDC Online Event on Valuations
The Business Development Bank of Canada, a federal Crown corporation, will host a webinar Thursday, Feb. 24 about how entrepreneurs can capitalize on the trend of rising valuations for tech companies.
The speakers will include BDC’s Brenda Slauko,
MARS VR Starts Trials
Halifax’s MARS VR Lab has begun clinical testing for a virtual reality hardware and software suite that gamifies the process of teaching children how to operate motorized wheelchairs.
The technology, dubbed the XPOD, uses a virtual reality headset
Our First Canadian Oceantech Data Report
We’re super proud today to publish our first Canadian Oceantech Data Report, which we hope will provide a baseline for analyzing ocean-related innovation in Canada in coming years.
This is the first time we’ve produced a national research report
Alongside Raises $8M
Two months after it inked a deal to acquire job board CareerBeacon, Moncton’s Alongside has closed an $8 million funding round, comprising 40 percent equity funding and the remainder a loan from TD Canada Trust.
Chief Executive Yves Boudreau said
Early Career Ocean Professionals Sought
ECOP Canada is asking people who have recently embarked on careers in the ocean sector to fill out a survey so the group can better understand and meet the international and national needs of early career ocean professionals -- which it calls ECOPs
New IT Training Programs Coming
The University of New Brunswick has partnered with the McKenna Institute and TechImpact to launch a new initiative that aims to address the tech industry’s labour shortage in New Brunswick and Atlantic Canada.
The three parties will hold a series
Digital NS Program Aims for Diversity
Digital Nova Scotia is seeking applications for the second cohort of its Get into IT program, which aims to help 148 participants from under-represented communities launch a technical career.
The association for IT industries expects to graduate 62
GIT, QualiTEAS in Singapore Accelerator
Two Atlantic Canadian oceantech companies – Graphite Innovation and Technology, or GIT, of Dartmouth and QualiTEAS of St. John’s – have joined the Eastern Pacific Accelerator in Singapore and received funding from the program.
Eastern Pacific
BDC Capital Launches Diversity Template
A standardized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Reporting Template for general partners of venture capital funds and their portfolios has been launched by BDC Capital, the investment arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada.
The tool is
Potential Motors Raises $4.1M
Fredericton electric vehicle startup Potential Motors has raised US$3.2 million or C$4.07 million from investors that include Montreal- and Toronto-based Brightspark Ventures and Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures.
Founded in 2018 by a team of