Former Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan’s new defence tech startup is laying the foundation for a public listing on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV). Vancouver-based Juno Industries announced the sale of 15 million subscription receipts at 80 cents a piece on Friday morning, securing the company $12 million CAD in financing ahead of a…
Women’s Equity Lab (WEL) Manitoba has closed its third fund, and at $300,000 CAD it marks the first time the Manitoba chapter of the venture capital collective has reached full subscription. “We’re having to turn people away that have expressed interest now that we’ve reached our full subscription.” WEL Manitoba announced the closure of the…
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton is afraid that powerful AI could eventually wipe out humanity, and he has a striking idea for how to prevent that from happening. If we embed “maternal instincts” in AI now, we could ensure it does not want to get rid of us, Hinton said on Thursday at the Ontario Centre…
Steven Wang is CEO of Venture for Canada and lecturer at Harvard University and the University of Toronto. . . . As Canada enters graduation season, approximately 650,000 post-secondary students are preparing to enter the workforce. They will arrive at a time when youth unemployment already sits at 13.8 percent, more than double the national…
Toronto Tech Week’s marquee opening event has unveiled its full lineup of speakers. Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey, Dominion Dynamics founder Eliot Pence, and more leaders from across Canada’s innovation ecosystem will join the BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall on May 25. “We’re on a mission to change the country, and that…
Photos of Maple Hollow Park in Key Peninsula of Washington State, taken on December 30, 2025.
“Being a people-pleaser may be more than a personality trait; it could be a response to serious trauma.” ~Alex Bachert Growing up in a home, school, and church that placed a lot of value on good behavior, self-discipline, and corporal punishment, I was a model child. There could have been an American Girl doll designed…
1. A Basic Explanation of Telepathy… Telepathy describes receiving thoughts or feelings from another person over distance, without using one of the five typical senses of sight, sound, touch, taste or smell. It is more likely to happen between people who have an existing close relationship. Twins often say that they can sense each others’…
by Dan Millman: Life is a Great School, and nature is the ultimate teacher, but without awareness you can’t hear the teacher. Awareness transforms life’s lessons into wisdom; it can translate confusing circumstances and events into useful knowledge. Awareness, then, is the beginning of all learning. Learning is a response to a demand to grow…
by Sheila Patal: The ancient Ayurvedic recommendation of tongue scraping is one that is often overlooked… There are many benefits to this daily practice for oral health, as well as overall physical and mental, health. Since the tongue and oral cavity are gateways between your mind-body system and the outside environment, maintaining the health of…
