Aleksandra Sagan

Apr 17, 2024 | thelogic.co | Murad Hemmadi |Catherine McIntyre |Aleksandra Sagan |David Reevely

The federal government’s planned increase on the amount of capital gains—the earnings from selling assets like shares, bonds, real estate and companies—it will tax has set off a firestorm among investors and entrepreneurs. Critics warn the change will deter investment in scaling companies and drive founders and talent away from Canada. “Everything that was in the budget got overshadowed by this decision,” said Kim Furlong, CEO of the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association.

Apr 17, 2024 | thelogic.co | Aleksandra Sagan |David Reevely |Martin Patriquin |Catherine McIntyre

The Logic’s executive editor April Fong sat down with Ottawa correspondents Murad Hemmadi and David Reevely on April 17, one day after the Liberal government tabled its 2024 federal budget. Subscribe now to start reading premium, award-winning journalism. By entering your e-mail you consent to receiving commercial electronic messages from The Logic Inc. containing news, updates, offers or promotions about The Logic Inc.’s products and services.

Apr 16, 2024 | thelogic.co | Aleksandra Sagan |David Reevely |Martin Patriquin |Catherine McIntyre

VANCOUVER — When AbCellera posted a nearly US$150-million annual loss at the end of 2023, it was an abrupt turn for a company seen as the lodestar of Vancouver’s biotech startup scene. For the previous two years, it had been awash in royalties from two COVID-19 therapies it co-developed in the midst of the pandemic. Subscribe now to start reading premium, award-winning journalism.

Apr 12, 2024 | thelogic.co | David Reevely |Claire Brownell |Aleksandra Sagan |Martin Patriquin

OTTAWA — The second full day of the Canada Strong and Free conservative conference struggled with a question that will likely dog the Conservative Party if Pierre Poilievre leads it to power in the next federal election: how can Canada own a green economic transition that—according to some among them—isn’t happening, or if it is, shouldn’t be? Subscribe now to start reading premium, award-winning journalism.

Apr 11, 2024 | thelogic.co | Murad Hemmadi |Anita Balakrishnan |Aleksandra Sagan |Claire Brownell

With the big-C Conservatives riding so high in the polls, hundreds of small-c conservatives and a fair share of corporate lobbyists have flocked to a hotel conference centre in the nation’s capital for insight into what the party might do once in power—and, some hoped, for a chance to influence it. Subscribe now to start reading premium, award-winning journalism.