As browsers race to embed artificial intelligence into nearly every corner of the online experience, Canadian-born Shift is taking a more measured approach. Founded in 2016 as an alternative to the tab-heavy traditional browser, Shift was built to help users organize work, personal accounts and other areas of their digital lives into separate spaces. Now, […]
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Borderless AI Podcast Traces Certn’s Path From Tofino to Global Scale
Borderless AI’s Make It Click podcast continues its series of conversations with Canadian tech leaders with a founder story rooted on Vancouver Island. In Episode 7, host Willson Cross sits down with Andrew McLeod, co-founder and CEO of Certn, for a conversation about building one of Canada’s standout technology companies from an idea dreamed up […]
CoLab Software Launches Major Hiring Push Across Canada
St. John’s-based CoLab Software is heading into the fall with more than 20 positions open across its growing team. The Canadian software company is recruiting across research and development, go-to-market and operations, with opportunities ranging from senior technical positions to sales, customer success and people leadership. Among the openings are VP of Software Engineering, Forward […]
Motion Adds Canadian Jobs as Demand Grows for AI Marketing Platform
Canadian software company Motion is adding new employees as it responds to growing demand for its AI-powered marketing platform. The remote-first company is recruiting across engineering, customer success, sales, marketing, product and design. Current opportunities include Senior Software Engineer positions focused on backend and infrastructure, along with an executive-level individual contributor role in engineering. Motion […]
Tech Talent Remains Restless as Job-Switching Tactics Continue to Pay Off
The formerly commonplace notion of someone starting a position with a company out of school and staying there for decades, steadily climbing the ranks until retirement, is already quite outdated. New data from ADP Research’s Canada Pay Insights continues to show us why. Base pay for “job-stayers” in Canada is up 3% year-over-year. That’s barely […]
Latest Workforce Alliance Targets the Talent and Skills to Electrify a Nation
Canada’s energy sector employs more than 300,000 workers—a number which could balloon to more than two million by 2050. Electricity demand in Canada is “set to grow rapidly as industries electrify and the economy digitizes,” according to Vittoria Bellissimo, chief executive officer of the Canadian Renewable Energy Association. “However, none of this happens without skilled […]
Safe Software Launches Hiring Push as AI Data Demand Grows
Surrey-based Safe Software is embarking on a significant hiring push, with plans to add more than 60 employees across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom before the end of 2026. The expansion will increase the FME creator’s global workforce by more than 15 percent, taking its total headcount beyond 400 employees. The recruitment […]
Borderless AI Podcast Explores What Culture Looks Like Under Pressure
Company culture is easy to talk about when things are going well. It becomes much more revealing when the pressure hits. That is the focus of the latest episode of Let’s Table That, the HR podcast from Borderless AI. In “Culture Shows Up When the Pressure Hits,” hosts Jazmine and Glaze sit down with Teresa […]
Investment Targeting Life Sciences Sector to Spur 1,000+ Skilled Roles
The federal government recently confirmed investments of up to $100 million that are forecast to create well over 1,000 new skilled jobs within Canada’s life sciences sector. The move builds on a $9 million investment to launch the Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences under the Sectoral Workforce Solutions Program. The recent […]
AI Tech May Have Negative Effect on Critical Skill Development of Future Talent
Artificial intelligence technologies have been shown to boost productivity in workplaces. But AI could be having negative implications on future talent—those still young enough to be developing their own personal skillset, separate from any technological dependency. For example, a recent study titled published by the Brookings Institution concluded that the risks of AI use within […]