Ops @build_canada
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined April 2018
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Ambition is rooted in Canadian DNA. The team at @cohere proves that once again 🇨🇦🚀
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In 1800s Toronto, nearly 50% of recorded deaths were children under 10.
A women's Bible study group led by Elizabeth McMaster sought to change that.
In a rented house with 6 iron cots & no running water, 🇨🇦's first children's hospital was born.
This is the story of @sickkids.
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Brilliant response from Canada’s energy minster. We have a lot of work to undo the past decade of mistakes and false narratives.
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Terry Fox was ready to quit. Almost nobody was watching him run the Marathon of Hope.
Then one hotelier who’d lost his own son to cancer pledged $10,000 to help start the largest cancer fundraiser on earth.
46 years on from the Marathon of Hope, this is Isadore Sharp. 🇨🇦
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We can take a page from their book. 🇨🇦🇰🇷
AI is completely changing the landscape of work. Let's make it accessible to more Canadians.
Let's build the AI literacy dividend. 🍁
Read from @fnthawar & @shaneparrish: buildcanada.com/memos/the-ai…
Convince the young people in your life to go open and contribute to FHSA!
Forget maxxing it, just opening it creates the $8k annual capacity start accumulating towards the $40k cap.
AND it rolls over into RRSP if never used, no brainer.
A Canadian couple maxing both FHSAs for 5 years. 🇨🇦
Here's what they could walk away with:
$8,000/year each. $16,000/year combined. Invested at 8%. (assuming 40% marginal tax rate)
After 5 years:
→ ~$98,000 in combined FHSA balances
→ ~$32,000 in combined tax refunds
→ Tax free withdrawal for the down payment
Total: ~$130,000 toward their first home.
On $80,000 of combined contributions.
Tax refunds + growth added ~$50,000.
The most powerful first home strategy available to Canadians.
Are both of yours open?
Nino is a builder who believes in positively impacting this country!
If you have an opinion on Canadian immigration direction, tell the government by filling out their survey: ircc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/…
Reminder to those who really care about Canadian immigration and the direction it's heading. The IRCC currently has its "2026 consultations on economic priorities for category-based selection in Express Entry" open until September 1st canada.ca/en/immigration-ref…
If you believe we're not bringing in or giving reliable immigration pathways to STEM workers, researchers, healthcare, and overall are failing in our economic/high human capital immigration strategy - please take 10 minutes to fill this out. This is ESPECIALLY important if you don't like how categories are being implemented (Francophone category and CEC program score discrepancy, I'm looking at you).
Even if they don't incorporate the feedback, the summary of the consultations will be published eventually. Then we can directly point at the results and call them out on pretending to be listening to the stakeholders and will of the Canadian population
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if you're Canadian and want to buy from Canadian tech companies, start here
109 companies across 50+ categories
AI → Cohere, Ada, Superwhisper, Boardy, Chatbase, Turbopuffer
Fintech → Wealthsimple, FreshBooks, Float
DevTools → Opencode, Polarity, Modem
Cybersecurity → 1Password, BlackBerry
E-Commerce → Shopify, Lightspeed, Stan
Health → Maple, Dialogue, League
Enterprise → OpenText, Clio
Other → Hootsuite, Ritual, TouchBistro
what Canadian tech company should I add next?
full list at madeincanada.dev/tech 🇨🇦
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As expected. 🇨🇦
A billion people produce the most valuable dataset in the world every day – and delete it every night.
We’re recording it.
Introducing @AttentionInc
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"We need people betting it all and building." 🍁
5 PM ET 🎬 @jeffcanadamson
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A huge amount of the Anti-AI code sentiment massively overestimates the quality of human code outside of a very small set of open source and high quality company codebases. Human Slop is everywhere and can trivially be improved on by any opus level model.
Ahmed is a Canadian builder. He believes that there is a solution and is relentless in his pursuit to implementing it.
Worth a follow! Can't wait until he get's first city in BC!
#Toronto went live in February. #Mississauga in May. #Milton in June. Then #Kitchener and #Waterloo went live in the same week, and #Ottawa came online this week in under 40 minutes.
That only happens because the platform underneath was already built. Every new city runs the same civic layer, in its own name and its own data.
Six cities, one layer, one login, one place. It has a name now: Solve Canada.
solvecanada.ca/blog/solve-ca…
Important to stand up on this! Our team @CANMNT_Official did us proud.
We're not a one-dimensional, one-sport country.
If you thought the article was negative only as a click-bait headline, the contents were even worse.
Let's build Canada strong, all sports welcome. 🍁
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canadamaxxing
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Wow.
Jamie Dimon the CEO of JPMorgan Chase called Carney’s “middle powers” plan a fantasy.
He says it’s been done already, it’s called Europe.
When Carney is being made fun of by the elites we are in bigger trouble than we thought.
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Two Canadian unicorns in two days. 🦄✨
A massive congrats to @GetKoho and @nestomortgages for their massive raises. The future of Canadian Tech is bright.
Today, @GetKoho announced $130M in new capital at a $1.33B valuation.
We’re very happy to welcome Mubadala, Savano Capital, @tobi, CEO, Founder of Shopify, and Michael Linford, COO of Affirm, to the KOHO story. We’re also grateful for the continued support of Drive Capital, Portage Ventures, Eldridge, BDC Capital, and HOOPP.
One of my favourite things about KOHO is that the only way we win is if millions of Canadians choose us. We cannot out-spend or out-market. We have to out-build. The progress we have made reflects the progress our users have made.
So, while we feel very proud of what’s behind us, we’re much more humbled by what’s in front of us. With this capital, we’ve earned the right to keep building on our promise to users. That job remains monumental, and we’re very honoured that we get to do the work.
I want to thank the team for their incredible work these past few years. The world doesn’t yet know how talented, smart and kind the KOHO Collective is - but they will.
I want to thank our investors for their continued trust and support. We’re lucky to have partners who recognize and support the need to take the longer view here.
More than anything, I want to thank our users. We’ve come a long way with much farther to go. We’ll keep earning your trust every damn day.
Back to work 🔥