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| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 72 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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Shadowing Chinese icebreakers
Editor’s Note: To a couple pals reading this from somewhere on the Bering Sea right now: good to know you’re keeping eyes on Xue Long and Xue Long 2. Stay safe, stay sharp, come home soon.
Special congrats this week to Mark Robbins, a memb...
Buy Canadian receipts are in
Editor’s Note: Big congrats to the team at Greypoint Industries (YC S26). Keen Icebreaker community members will remember them as the winners of Canada’s first ever defence tech hackathon (hosted by us, and proudly backed by NordSpace, SkyW...
🛡️ ONE9: The Firm That Built Canada’s Defence Venture Market
Editor’s note and disclosure: The Icebreaker’s co-founder Matthew Lombardi recently joined ONE9, the security and defence investment platform of Kensington Capital Partners Limited. The Icebreaker and ONE9 already co-founded and co-chair CA...
Canada finally builds the buyer
Release the drones: For two years the complaint from Canadian uncrewed-systems founders has been the same: there’s no door to knock on. As of this week there is one. The Canadian Joint Forces Command (CJFC), with LGen Molstad owning drones...
Special Edition: Buy Canadian Conference Launch
The rules changed this year. On June 15 the federal Buy Canadian threshold dropped from $25M to $5M. The $2B Sovereign AI Compute Strategy is in market. Defence spending is climbing. For once, policy moved in Canadian entrepreneurs’ favour....
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