Toronto-based FinTech firm Float Financial wants to save bookkeepers more time with an agentic AI offering for corporate credit cards that it’s releasing inside of its new product suite. As of Tuesday morning, Float customers on certain service tiers can now access Float Intelligence. The AI automation layer bundles Float’s existing automation tools with a…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Most people who try meditation for the first time expect their mind to go quiet. Instead, it does the opposite: replaying conversations, drafting grocery lists, or wondering whether the oven is still on. This is not failure. According to Kirat Randhawa, a meditation instructor for Alo Moves, the moment…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade did not simply write a letter. For 58 days, CAFT ran protests at Etsy offices and affiliates across 17 cities, including a disruption of Etsy’s own presentation at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in San Francisco in March. The…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur%27s_oven_-_Gordon_1726.jpg This would be Arthur’s Oven/O’on For over fifteen hundred years, visitors beyond the remains of Rome’s Antonine Wall in Scotland’s Central Lowlands would be greeted by a mysterious sight if they took the route along River Carron in Stenhousemuir (Stone House in English). This would be Arthur’s Oven/O’on (Scots), an towering ancient igloo/beehive shaped…
ViewsML wants to make it easier for clinicians and scientists to extract insights from human tissue samples outside the laboratory with the help of AI. The Vancouver-based startup announced today that it has closed $4.9 million CAD in seed funding to execute on that vision and commercialize its platform. ViewsML is developing AI models designed…
Genre: Comedy, Crime Release Date: 2026 Director: Macon Blair Cast: Dave Franco, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Mason Thames Plot Summary: Two rock-bottom drivers transport a wealthy teen to rehab, but their simple job spirals into a chaotic journey of drugs, danger, and crime as their passenger derails their plans. FILM RATING The post IDIOTS | Teaser…
The Canadian Strategic Missions Corporation (CSMC) has won grant funding for two projects that could one day help humans live and operate on the Moon. The Kitchener-Waterloo-based space and defence tech company has been awarded $1.2 million in federal funding to build manufacturing capacity for its nuclear microreactor, which is intended to power facilities both…
Genre: Romantic Comedy, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance Release Date: September 11, 2026 Director: Susanne Bier Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Maisie Williams, Lee Pace Plot Summary: A multi generational family of witches, cursed to be loveless for centuries, attempts to break the spell by confronting dark secrets and sacrificing for each other. FILM RATING The…
Liam Gill leads the Capital Program at MaRS Discovery District, the largest innovation hub in Canada. In 2024, MaRS-supported companies raised 13 percent of all venture capital deployed in Canada. The cracks in Ontario’s foundation are no longer just metaphorical, they are visible in our crumbling overpasses and felt in the quiet desperation of our…
Police have identified Shamar Elkins as the Louisiana man who fatally shot eight children on Sunday (April 19). Additional details from the case revealed that seven of the kids were his, and that the attack on his family stretched across two houses in a Shreveport, Louisiana neighborhood. The shooting was the deadliest in the U.S….
