VANCOUVER, JANUARY 22, 2018- Cantech Letter is pleased to announce the finalists for the 8th Annual Cantech Letter Awards. The Cantech Letter Awards recognize excellence in Canada’s innovation sectors. They are selected by an anonymous panel of more than 40 sell-side analysts from dozens of Canadian investment banks. The Cantech Letter Awards will be presented […]
Hey Google, are Canadian marijuana stocks a worldwide phenomenon?
Canadian marijuana stocks have been on quite a run this past year. Newly-formed companies have been netting huge financing rounds in the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars and share prices have gone through the roof since November, only to come back to Earth a touch over the past week. And while the weed […]
Listed: the five biggest financings in Canadian marijuana stock history
Canada’s marijuana stocks have been on a tear over the last couple of months, hitting record highs and doubling, even tripling share values practically overnight. But with so many unknowns, it’s anyone’s guess which companies will emerge as dominant players once recreational pot becomes legal and the industry starts taking shape. In the meantime, investors […]
OpenText and Symbility are top tech picks for 2018 at Industrial Alliance
Across an array of sectors, the analysts at Industrial Alliance Securities today revealed their top picks for 2018, and tech analyst Blair Abernethy says his are OpenText (TSX:OTC, Nasdaq:OTEX) and Symbility Solutions (TSXV:SY). Abernethy says he expects the dominant themes of 2018 will be Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing and Blockchain Technology. Of these, the analyst […]
The Maple Syrup Miracle and other Canadian science breakthroughs that happened in 2017
Science certainly had its share of newsworthy items in 2017, from the solar eclipse to the first gene editing of a human embryo, to the discovery of Earth-like planets around a nearby star to the expanding powers of artificial intelligence and the success of the first artificial womb. And Canadian researchers had their say, as […]
These Canadian cleantech stocks will go up in 2018, analyst say
Cleantech stocks have not captured the imagination of Canadian investors for some time. It’s not that there aren’t reasons. Perhaps some got burned by Timminco, the shrouded-in-mystery solar player that soared and then crashed when its “revolutionary” technology couldn’t handle the harsh light of day. Or, going back further, it might have been the somewhat […]
Vote now for the Cantech Letter 2017 Newsmaker of the Year
From a public market perspective, 2017 was a wild ride for Canada’s innovation sectors. The year was driven, broadly, by cannabis and blockchain stocks. But other sectors got in on the action too. 2017 had everything, including scandal (was Shopify wearing The Emperor’s New Clothes? No, investors ultimately decided ), new millionaires created via a […]
Do advanced stats really work in hockey?
It’s been a good decade since professional hockey started up its bromance with advanced statistics like Corsi and Fenwick, but aside from getting a few more math geeks into the front office, are teams benefitting from the new focus on analytics? Do advanced stats really work? While hockey was slower to catch onto the […]
2017 was another great year for Canadian tech stocks, TSX says
2017 has been a definite success for tech in Canada, says Michael Kousaie, Head of Business Development at the TSX, and we should expect more of the same from 2018, as there’s a healthy stable of private Canadian companies getting primed to go public in short order. Sure, 2017 will not be remembered as quite […]
The Top 10 rejected blockchain business ideas
And now, on with the blockchain revolution! How hot is blockchain right now? Rumour has it that over 26,000 blockchain-related projects were started up last year on the software collaboration platform GitHub, an impressive number, considering only eight per cent of these are still actively maintained. That says something about the feverish workings of the […]
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