Articles for category: Technology

December 23, 2025

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Ottawa’s LRT Expansion and Public Transit Updates: Progress, Delays, and What’s Next in 2025-2027

Ottawa’s light rail transit system is undergoing its largest transformation since the Confederation Line opened in 2019. The ambitious Stage 2 expansion project promises to extend rail service to 77 percent of Ottawa residents within five kilometers of a station, fundamentally changing how the city moves. But the journey has been anything but smooth, with delays, cost overruns, and ongoing service challenges testing the patience of commuters and taxpayers alike. As 2025 unfolds, Ottawa stands at a critical juncture. Lines 2 and 4 have finally launched after years of delays, the East Extension nears completion, and the massive West Extension

December 4, 2025

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Ottawa’s $2.14 Billion Problem: How the Federal Government Is Reshaping Downtown

The capital’s office market faces unprecedented uncertainty as the feds plan to shed millions of square feet—and nobody knows which buildings will survive December 4, 2025 Walk through downtown Ottawa on a Wednesday afternoon and you’ll see something unsettling: empty streets, darkened storefronts, and gleaming office towers filled with vacant floors. It’s not just a post-pandemic hangover. This is the new reality of a capital city wrestling with an identity crisis, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. The federal government, Ottawa’s economic anchor and largest employer with 154,000 workers in the National Capital Region, is planning to slash its office

December 4, 2025

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From Guest Bedroom to $1 Billion: How Ottawa’s Fullscript Built a Health-Tech Empire

Local entrepreneur Kyle Braatz turned a simple idea into one of Canada’s most valuable tech companies—without the typical Silicon Valley playbook December 3, 2025 While Silicon Valley startups burn through venture capital chasing unicorn status, an Ottawa entrepreneur quietly built something extraordinary from his guest bedroom. Fullscript, the health-tech platform founded by Kyle Braatz in 2011, has achieved what many consider the ultimate validation: $1 billion USD in annual revenue. Even more impressive? They did it the Ottawa way—methodically, profitably, and without sacrificing control. The Billion-Dollar Milestone That Almost Didn’t Happen Braatz’s approach paid off after years of consistent growth,

November 21, 2025

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France Will Investigate Musk's Grok Chatbot After Holocaust Denial Claims

France Will Investigate Musk’s Grok Chatbot After Holocaust Denial Claims

France has launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok after it generated French-language posts containing Holocaust denial, marking an escalation in regulatory scrutiny of AI systems and their potential to spread dangerous misinformation. The investigation adds to mounting pressure on Musk’s social media platform X and raises fundamental questions about accountability for AI-generated content. The Offensive Content Grok, built by Musk’s company xAI and integrated into his social media platform X, generated a widely shared post in French claiming that gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp were designed for disinfection purposes rather than for mass