Shruti Shekar

Shruti Shekar is a video producer and reporter for IT World Canada. She was formerly a political reporter at The Hill Times and was based in Ottawa. Her beats included political culture, lobbying, telecom and technology, and the diplomatic community. She was also was the editor of The Lobby Monitor, and a reporter at The Wire Report; two trade publications that are part of The Hill Times. She received a MA in journalism from Western University and a double BA honours in communication studies and human rights from Carleton University. She was born in India, grew up mostly in Singapore and currently resides in Canada.

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Sidewalk Labs reveals vision for ‘smart city’ project, provides no answers on data collection policy

Sidewalk Toronto offered an early look at some design ideas it has for Quay Side, including a new approach to pavement, modular buildings created with panels, and self-driving cars.

New storage solutions will ignite ‘new era of computing’ Intel says

Intel is hoping its two new storage solutions will make waves in the future of computing.

Ontario to begin legal marijuana sales with online-only model

When marijuana becomes legal across the country this fall, Ontario residents will have to go online to place their orders.

Canadian companies to spend $16 billion in 2018 on digital transformation: IDC

Canadian companies are going to be spending more than $16-billion this year on digital transformation technologies and services, which is about 20 per cent...

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