If you’ve ever spent time shopping for business insurance, you already know how frustrating it can be to navigate policies and premiums, let alone claims departments. That experience can be even more difficult for cryptocurrency and digital asset businesses facing astronomically high premiums. The Canadian Bitcoin Consortium (CBC) is trying to change that. “It’s historic…
The US Supreme Court ruled Friday morning that President Donald Trump did not have the legal authority to institute most of the tariffs he levied on international products coming into the country. That includes tariffs on Canadian products that shellshocked many Canadian companies over the past year. While some Canadian businesses are breathing a bit…
Elevate has named Wealthsimple the 2026 CIX Innovator of the Year, recognizing the Toronto FinTech firm for its recent growth and product innovation. Wealthsimple co-founder and CEO Michael Katchen will accept the award on stage and participate in a keynote fireside chat at Elevate’s CIX Summit on March 25. More than 600 entrepreneurs, industry leaders,…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In Bogotá, Colombia’s bustling capital, the battle against air pollution isn’t just about cleaner skies. It’s about equity. While many cities focus on environmental reforms in wealthier districts, Bogotá is flipping that model. It’s bringing its first clean air zones to communities that have long borne the brunt of…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For decades, nightlife has been framed as the default setting for fun. Late dinners, crowded bars, booming music, and the unspoken assumption that a good social life begins after dark. But a growing number of people are starting to step away from that script. No, not because they dislike…
Achieving excellence, it turns out, is rarely a pristine, elegant process. For decades, mental-performance coaches worked with Olympians to engineer flawless moments. The goal was to help athletes enter “the zone,” that elusive flow state where everything clicks. “There was a lot of focus on being in the zone—in your flow state—and basically trying to…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM When the sun sets, solar panels sadly become unproductive. For decades, that daily pause has underscored one of renewable energy’s biggest challenges: how to store sunlight efficiently for use after dark. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara believe they have found an elegant answer. No, not in bulky battery packs…
Montréal-based Mecademic has secured new funding from a trio of government agencies to go big, while keeping its robots small. Mecademic’s robots are compact enough to fit in the palm of your hand. The company announced on Thursday that it raised a $21-million strategic funding round led by Investissement Québec (IQ), with participation from Export…
For Mycroft co-founder and CEO Mike Kim, building a cybersecurity startup in Canada often begins without much shared experience to lean on. “There just aren’t enough battle scars in the cybersecurity ecosystem, especially in Canada,” Kim said. “You can read a lot about how to build a successful SaaS startup, but a lot of that…
Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst says that most of the world’s experience of technology is defined by Silicon Valley and the United States—and that “isn’t great.” AI is “super useful” but is not “a god inside a computer.” Nick Frosst, Cohere “We’re all pretty aware that that isn’t great, that the vision of life, that the…
