BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Most people have a type. Ask them to describe it and they will, with varying degrees of self-awareness: the brooding creative, the high-achiever who is always a little hard to reach, the warm one who still somehow needs to be talked into their own worth. The specifics differ. The…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Marco Hatch describes his own work with characteristic dry humor: “I’m a glorified clam counter.” What he’s actually doing is more complicated. As a marine ecologist at Western Washington University and an enrolled member of the Samish Indian Nation, Hatch is collaborating with seven Indigenous communities to rebuild clam…
Trouble in the World I have been asked many times “Master, can you not stop the wars and the trouble and strife in the world?” We wish we could but, while humanity is in the darkness of ego, we can do nothing about this. However, we Masters can – with our channels – travel the…
A Crucible Moment, Now With Pink SlipsSnap is cutting roughly 16% of its global workforce — around 1,000 full-time employees — and CEO Evan Spiegel isn’t being subtle about why. In a memo sent to staff on Wednesday and included in a regulatory filing, Spiegel pointed directly to artificial intelligence as the enabler that makes…
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly wants to see Finnish multinational Nokia invest more in Canada. Joly made the desire known in a fireside chat with Finland’s president, Alexander Stubb, on Wednesday morning as part of a business forum at Nokia’s Ottawa facility. “We’re not yet at the golden age of the Canada-Finland relationship … but we…
Wealthsimple is making it easier for X users to trade stocks on its FinTech platform, directly from their social media feeds. “What’s been missing is the bridge between conversation and action.” Brett HuneycuttWealthsimple On Tuesday evening, the Toronto FinTech company announced an integration on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, that guides users to make…
The improbably good looking Jude Law is the unlikely casting but surprisingly good fit as Putin in The Wizard of the Kremlin due out this month. An adaptation of Giuliano da Empoli’s satirical novel about the political insanity of post-Soviet Russia, it concentrates on the break-up of the Soviet Union, Putin’s arrival, the Sochi Winter…
by Donna Quesada: A mantra is a sacred word, sound or phrase, which is part of the Bhakti Yoga tradition. Bhakti means love, or devotion. In the western mind, devotion conjures up the idea of subservience. But it is rather, the unfolding of the connection with spirit. Bhakti is the pathway to the divine by way…
The Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) ordered a trading halt to Xanadu ($XNDU) stock late Wednesday morning after the recently public company saw its share price briefly spike more than 60 percent. CIRO said in a statement that the temporary halt was issued due to a “single stock circuit breaker,” which occurs when an individual…
Tanzanian officials are reportedly questioning Ashlee Jenae, or Ashly Robinson‘s fiancé, Joe McCann, following her death in a Zanzibar hotel. RELATED: UPDATE: Jarvis Butts, Man Recently Sentenced For Death Of 13-Year-Old Na’Ziyah Harris, Reportedly Found Deceased In Prison Tanzanian Officials Are Reportedly Questioning Ashlee Jenae’s Fiancé Following Her Death In Zanzibar Hotel According to 6abc Action…
