Neo Financial has partnered with United Airlines to launch a credit card this spring. On Tuesday, the Calgary-based FinTech company announced it will launch the United MileagePlus Neo World Elite Mastercard in April. The credit card is issued by Neo, with United Airlines providing the MileagePlus loyalty program. It comes with several travel benefits, including…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM We have all heard the advice: buy what you need, not what you want. In theory, it is simple. In practice, especially when money feels tight or emotions are running high, it can be surprisingly difficult. The truth is, spending on something you want is not inherently wrong. The…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM As young people spend more of their lives online, the risks they face have become harder to ignore. From harassment in group chats to manipulated images shared without consent, cyberbullying is no longer a side issue of digital life but a central one. In response, the European Commission introduced…
Insolvent Montréal startup SRTX recently struck a deal to sell some of its assets to fellow Québec textile manufacturing firm AYK International. Court filings published online last week by SRTX trustee PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) share more details about the state of the Sheertex maker’s business and how it got here. “The technology works. The customers are…
The tech job market in Canada has cooled in recent years, but the talent crunch hasn’t gone away—it’s just becoming more complicated. Canada’s immigration system is “a human capital model that doesn’t assess human capital.” Patrick MacKenzie,Immigrant Employment Council of BC These tensions set the stage on a recent evening at Northeastern University’s Vancouver campus,…
About a decade ago, the federal government launched SUV, the Start-up Visa program, which was designed to attract top entrepreneurial talent from around the world to Canada. “Speed is of the essence. This is a super dynamic marketplace. Canada is losing entrepreneurs, we’re losing the next generation of founders, and we need to do things,…
A new report examining years of Canadian startup ecosystem data shows a funding slowdown at the earliest stages has contributed to sluggish growth and lost value for Canada’s tech sector. “We have rails everywhere but we don’t have a high-speed railway system.” Claudio Rojas, NACO The National Angel Capital Association (NACO) and tech organization Startup…
Stefan Palios works in product marketing and sales enablement; he contributed to BetaKit from 2016 to 2024. He tells the stories of Canadian tech, and has interviewed over 500 entrepreneurs on how they built their businesses. In 2017, I tried to build a profitable company using only Canadian technology. That little experiment gave me an…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Many people yearn for the golden years of retirement, where the grind often slows down, and we have more free time. But how we spend that time can make a big difference in how we age. Science continues to show that our lifestyle choices in midlife and beyond can…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM After decades of ecological decline, China’s Yangtze River, Asia’s longest and one of the most degraded waterways in the world, is showing hopeful signs of recovery. According to a new study published in Science, fish populations in the river have more than doubled in just two years following the…
