Host applications are now open for the 2026 edition of Toronto Tech Week, as the non-profit community initiative adds more partners and a new multiyear agreement with the City of Toronto. Toronto Tech Week announced Tuesday morning that new supporting sponsors Osler, Bell, and Ada had joined returning founding sponsors Shopify, Google for Startups, and…
If you haven’t yet subscribed to my Substack, it’s where I get a little more personal—writing from the heart about self-care, motherhood, wellness, and all things in between. My community loved this post there, so I wanted to share an excerpt with you here. I’m officially in my forties (I’m 41), and while I won’t claim to…
Montréal-based Vention has secured a $110-million USD ($150-million CAD) Series D round to enhance and scale its physical AI platform into manufacturing plants worldwide. “We’re becoming the default standard, and we’re going to invest to ensure that’s the case.” Etienne Lacroix The industrial tech scaleup closed the new funding round and hit $100 million CAD…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM That mid-afternoon latte might feel like the boost you need to power through your to-do list, especially when the days are short and the weather begs for something warm. But before you cozy up with a seasonal peppermint mocha at 4:00 p.m., it’s worth asking: will this cup of…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For the first time in over five decades, coal-fired electricity generation has dropped in both China and India, the world’s two largest consumers of coal. This historic shift, outlined in new research from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and published by Carbon Brief, may…
“Hope is not a prediction. It is the choice to believe something good is possible before we have proof.” For most of my life, I lived with an internal alarm system that never turned off. I expected disaster around every corner—financial collapse, professional failure, health crises, humiliation, and loss. Catastrophic thinking wasn’t just a habit;…
There is so much happening in the world of algorithmic media to start the year that we had to discuss it on the podcast. “You have just seen control of one of the most popular social media platforms in one of the most influential countries in the world switch from one foreign power relative to…
StartupBlink says Canada currently offers the world’s sixth most favourable business environment for building a technology startup. The Swiss startup-ecosystem research firm’s new Innovators Business Environment Index (IBEI), released today, ranked Canada as one of the easiest nations from which to launch, operate, and scale a tech startup or innovative company. StartupBlink’s IBEI assessed 125…
Y Combinator has revised its standard deal terms to exclude Canada as a permitted site of investment, implying that Canadian startups aspiring to join the prestigious San Francisco-based startup accelerator will have to incorporate their companies elsewhere. As first reported by The Logic Monday, Y Combinator’s standard deal terms webpage now says it invests in…
The Peace Pals International Art Contest is a great and fun way to spread the message of peace, and it has done a wonderful job in doing so. I am very grateful to receive my certificate and desktop peace pole, and hope the message of peace spreads far and wide. To see all of the…
