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A shaft of light illuminates a man crossing a street within a canyon of dark office towers in downtown Toronto.

Canada’s private equity boom is leaving the weakest borrowers exposed

By Chaimae Chouiekh

Andrew Forde, wearing a beige tweed blazer, black slacks and a white sweater, speaks on a stage at the Elevate conference in Toronto with three large blue screens in the backdrop. One screen displays the session topic, AI, another displays the logos for sponsors KPMG and Google, and a third screen depicts a photo of a stop sign covered in stickers. The stop-sign photo is labelled, “Stickers that beat supercomputers.”

KPMG’s AI whisperer says some Bay Street firms are falling into a productivity trap

By Anita Balakrishnan

Benjamin Bergen named new head of CVCA after months-long search

By Catherine McIntyre

Canadian private equity investing shatters records as billion-dollar buyouts surge

By Catherine McIntyre

An aerial picture of a farm on a clear day with a cluster of buildings in the bottom right and fields stretching off into the distance.

Investors are buying up Canada’s farmland. Some farmers are getting worried

By Catherine McIntyre

The pet-care boom is making your local vet a takeover target

By Mirjam Guesgen

How Instant Brands, the Ottawa-born maker of Instant Pot, went bust

By David Reevely

New name, new boss, new pitch: The company formerly known as Corel wants to enable your remote-working life

By David Reevely

Canadian venture capital hits record $14.2B in 2021 despite drop in second half, report says

By Catherine McIntyre

Diversity at Canadian VC firms is improving, but inclusion gap threatens progress, CVCA report finds

By Catherine McIntyre