Founded in 2010 by Nick Waddell, Cantech Letter is an online magazine focusing on Canadian technology.
The site has grown into one of the most popular and respected financial sites in Canada, and was described by Canadian Business Magazine as “one of Canada’s premier technology newsletters”. Waddell, who is editor, is routinely called on by the mainstream media for perspective on Canadian technology, and has been featured on BNN, CTV News Channel, and the CBC program “The Lang and O’Leary Exchange” and has been cited in mainstream print media such as The Guardian, The International Business Times, The Globe and Mail, Macleans, Canadian Business, Slate, The Lancet , PLOS ONE, Forbes, The National Post, Huffington Post, Techcrunch, Vice, and many others.
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Cantech Letter is focused on those companies listed on the TSX and TSXV Technology, Cleantech and Life Sciences Sectors. Each year we present the Cantech Letter Awards, which honor Canada’s Top Technology Stock and Top Technology Stock Executive.
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Nick Waddell, Founder and Senior Editor
Nick is President of Cantech Media and Founding Editor of Cantech Letter. Nick has fifteen years experience with public technology companies in the areas of corporate communications and corporate finance. Nick is also a contributor to publications such as Canadian Business and Business Insider. Prior to this work, Nick was a writer and editor with Monday Publications in Victoria, BC and, in the early 1990’s was a VP with one of the world’s first profitable internet sites, Canadian Stock Market Reporter. Nick majored in English and minored in Economics at The University of Guelph and Simon Fraser University.
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Sales
Tara Whittet
Tara Whittet is Senior Sales Manager at Cantech Letter.
Tara spent twenty years in the dentistry sector. Her passion for building strong client relationships as a dental hygienist allowed her to transition well into head of sales at Cantech Letter. Tara is committed to exceeding her client’s expectations of their advertising needs.
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Writer
Rod Weatherbie
Rod is a journalist based in Prince Edward Island. Since 2004, he has written extensively about the Canadian property and casualty insurance landscape. He was also a founder and contributing editor for a Toronto-based arts website and a PEI-based food magazine. His fiction and poetry have been featured in The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, and Juniper.
Senior Correspondent, Video
Justine Ma
Senior Correspondent, Video
Richard Southern
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CONTRIBUTING RESEARCH FIRMS
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ATB Cormark Capital Markets
ATB Cormark Capital Markets is a full-service capital markets firm offering a wide range of financial solutions across North America. Established in 2020, with the combination of ATB Corporate Financial Services and AltaCorp Capital, and expanded in 2025 with Cormark Securities Inc. joining the firm, the team has developed a reputation for building strong, lasting client relationships.
Above all, we believe our clients deserve excellence. With expanded financial and advisory service offerings and a highly specialized team, we bring entrepreneurism, unique opportunities and creative solutions with integrity and an unwavering commitment to serve our clients’ best interests.
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National Bank
National Bank Capital Markets offers a complete suite of products and services to corporations, institutional clients, and public-sector entities. We devote our energies to deliver comprehensive advisory services and research or capital markets solutions to support our clients in achieving their goals and growth.
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Beacon Securities
Founded in 1988, Beacon is a full-service independent investment dealer in Canada, with a growing emphasis on mid-market institutional equities. Our services include Equity research, Institutional sales & trading, Equity & debt underwriting and M&A advisory. Beacon has a strategic presence across Canada and serves clients globally across many different sectors. Our team is comprised of a diverse group of dedicated investment professionals who are passionate about creating value for our clients.
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Haywood Capital Markets
Haywood Capital Markets values its independence and its entrepreneurial spirit. Our analysts and advisors seek proven management in young companies that are built around fresh ideas with the potential for rapid growth in the oil and gas, mining and special situation sectors. Haywood Securities offers these investment opportunities to a select group of qualified investors in both the institutional and retail markets.
At Haywood, we foster long-term relationships with the companies we support through our often multiple financings in the capital markets and our ongoing advisory services. Our goal is not only to ensure the success of the venture, but also to build enduring value for our investors.
Paradigm Capital
Paradigm Capital is a research-driven investment dealer. Our sales and trading desk focuses on companies we cover. Our investment banking team provides innovative and attentive service. We believe that teamwork and long-term relationships are the key to exceptional success and growth.
Research Capital Corporation
Research Capital Corporation is Canada’s leading independent investment firm with an experienced and knowledgeable team of financial advisors, investment bankers, institutional sales representatives, and research analysts.
Ventum Capital Markets
Ventum Capital Markets is a premium full-service broker dealer offering investment banking, advisory, equity research, institutional sales and trading, and retail distribution to small-cap and mid-sized public and private companies in a wide variety of sectors across Canada.
Our investment banking group works with a broad range of issuer clients and provides a variety of capital raising and advisory solutions.
We offer world-class equity research produced by an experienced team of analysts covering over 180 companies across various sectors.
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Leede Financial Inc.
Leede is an employee-owned investment firm with a proud history dating back to 1965. We service clients from more than 20 locations across Canada, in both official languages, with an entrepreneurial spirit that originates from our independent Canadian roots. We are at the forefront of our industry and provide the ultimate client experience. We focus on what matters most to our clients: a comprehensive range of investment solutions and the freedom for our advisors to choose what’s best for their clients, without being limited by proprietary Leede-branded products.
This is what makes us truly INDEPENDENT.
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Desjardins Capital Markets
Desjardins Capital Markets is part of Desjardins Group, the largest cooperative financial group in Canada with more than $389 billion in assets. We are among the best capitalized and most secure financial institutions in the world with a Tier 1 capital ratio of 21.4%. Our credit rating is one of the best in the Canadian banking sector:
- Moody’s Aa1
- Standard & Poor’s A+
- Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS) AA
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Roth Capital Partners
Roth Capital Partners, LLC is a relationship-driven, full-service investment bank that provides strategic and financial advisory services to growth companies and their investors.
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Stifel
Stifel offers Canadian corporate clients and institutional investors a broad range of investment banking services, including advisory and underwriting, institutional sales and trading, and equity research.
We are fully integrated into the global Stifel platform, enabling us to offer a broad suite of products and services across key industry sectors. And while we are dedicated to serving the Canadian capital markets, we have the major benefit of being able to offer unfettered access to the U.S. and global markets as well.
Operating from offices in Montreal and Toronto, we are able to maintain a significant local presence, while extending a global reach that benefits clients.
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