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Waterloo’s Shopify to handle online sale of legal weed

The Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation (OCRC) has announced that the Canadian e-commerce company Shopify will manage the online sale of legal recreational cannabis in Ontario.

From startup to scale-up, the road is paved with free lunches

In the competition for talent among the region's startups and tech companies, David Ahola believes providing free lunches to employees can separate the winners from the also-rans.

Content Marketing Isn’t Enough

Region looks to become green-tech hub with evolvGREEN

evolv1 became Canada’s first project to receive a carbon-zero building certificate

University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing earns Guinness record with microscopic Canadian flag

A team of scientists from University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing have created the smallest-ever Canadian flag, according to Guinness World Records.

Waterloo professor wins Nobel Prize in Physics

Donna Strickland wins Nobel Prize for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics. She is the first woman to win the physics prize since 1963

Sudbury natives cross creative borders

“Storytek is designed to focus on the storytelling industries, content industries, and they bring creative industry together with the start-up tech world”

Waterloo’s Accelerator Centre named top business incubator by Digital Finance Institute

Every year, the Accelerator Centre works with about 100 new startups and half of those companies are using artificial intelligence or working in financial technology

Waterloo students create a system to help visually impaired using touch screens

WatVision is a three part process: smartphone app, industry standard detection markers placed on each corner of a touchscreen and a ring worn on the users’ finger