Alberta is investing $10 million over three years to advance the integration of AI into provincial healthcare. The provincial funding was announced during a fireside chat between Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) CEO Cam Linke and Alberta Minister of Technology and Innovation Nate Glubish on Wednesday at the Upper Bound AI conference in Edmonton. Glubish…
Montréal startup BrainBox AI and its parent company Trane Technologies officially marked the opening of an AI innovation lab that could dramatically cut energy waste in the world’s buildings on Wednesday. Speaking to a packed atrium with a perfectly regulated temperature, Trane chair and CEO Dave Regnery said that most buildings waste about 30 percent…
Latto has shared more baby bump photos, and some social media users think she’s sexualizing pregnancy. Meanwhile, another video has social media users continuing to believe she may have already given birth. RELATED: New Mom Energy?! Social Media Thinks Latto Gave Birth After Mother’s Day Video Seemingly Featured Baby Sounds Latto Shares More Baby Bump/Pregnancy Photos…
Montréal-based financial services conglomerate Power Corporation of Canada (Power Corp) is spinning up a new AI fund through its alternative asset management business, Sagard. Power Corp and two of its operating companies, Great‑West Lifeco and IGM Financial, announced a combined $150-million USD ($206 million CAD) investment into a new Sagard AI Fund on Wednesday morning. …
Backlash is mounting to Bill C-22, the proposed Canadian legislation that would give law enforcement more power to surveil personal communications and data. The news: Last year, Bill C-2, the Strong Borders Act, was split into two pieces of legislation after pushback over its proposed sweeping surveillance powers. Now, Bill C-22, the part of that…
A new Canadian defence company has formed under the banner of a very old name. Former CEO of National Bank Louis Vachon and a group of investors announced yesterday the creation of Marconi Technologies, a newly Canadian-owned defence company headquartered in Montréal. The company plans to sell hardware and communications technology to the Canadian government…
Toronto-based FinTech startup Relay announced on Tuesday that it has closed $50 million USD ($69 million CAD) from Silicon Valley’s General Catalyst to accelerate customer acquisition. This money comes out of General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which Relay co-founder and CEO Yoseph West said provides non-dilutive growth capital tied directly to customer acquisition performance. …
“Emotional abuse is any pattern of behavior that undermines a person’s sense of self-worth and reality.” ~Beverly Engel At first, the changes were small. I stopped wearing that outfit everyone liked because they said it didn’t look good on me. I let certain friendships fade because it made him uncomfortable. I laughed less at things…
The farmers market is finally worth the trip again. Cherries, early stone fruit, basil that takes me back to summer in Italy—May is when the season stops teasing and starts delivering. I’ve been spending more time outside, keeping meals simple, and feeling that familiar pull toward lighter everything: food, routines, getting dressed in the morning….
by Katie Stone: In a world where we are constantly searching for spiritual support, it is not surprising that many people turn to religious disciplines like Buddhism… However, it may be more surprising if they turn to psychedelics. And it may be most surprising if they decide to combine both into a form of psychedelic…
