Montréal’s Brdg has closed $850,000 CAD in pre-seed funding to help real estate developers, cost consultants, and lenders navigate the complex world of financing construction projects in Canada. “The construction financing process is quite archaic,” Brdg co-founder Ness Cabessa told BetaKit in an interview. Cabessa said it is both fragmented and manual-labour-intensive. “A lot of…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM If you’ve put real time into growing and grooming your beard, discovering a film of flakes underneath it can feel so unfair. All that trimming, all those oils, and somehow your skin is staging a revolt. Here’s the thing though: beard dandruff usually isn’t a grooming problem at all….
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Cleared tropical rainforests can recover 90 percent of their species diversity within a single human generation, according to new research from Ecuador’s Chocó region, one of the most biodiverse stretches of Pacific coast forest on the continent. The study, published in Nature, pooled data from more than 30 research…
Episode Description: Arielle checks in solo to explain why the Kristy guest episode is getting a little more time. Both she and Karissa have been doing what they always say matters most: showing up, fully present, for the people they love. Babies, weddings, miles between people who love each other. Sometimes slowing down really is…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM People who carry a Neanderthal version of the growth hormone receptor have, on average, 271 additional grams of muscle compared with those who don’t. People who inherited the variant from both parents tend to have more still. The finding comes from a study that cross-referenced lab experiments with population…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There’s something slightly odd about the fact that we’ve had solar telescopes for more than a century and still couldn’t quite see the sun’s surface. We’re already aware of the big stuff: plasma bubbling in convective cells, sunspots forming where magnetic fields bunch up, radiation bursting outward on an…
What would happen if, overnight, Canada suddenly lost all access to American tech? That question was posed by our friends at the Canadian Shield Institute, who have put together an infographic outlining what the average day might look like without the economic and technological integration Canadians have come to expect—maybe even depend on. “When we…
The Ontario government has announced the framework for a new Data Centre Playbook that it says will set the terms for data centre development in the province. The news: The playbook will base data centre approvals around three main pillars: economic development, digital sovereignty, and community benefits. The province also says it plans to put…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Cervical spine surgeon K. Daniel Riew at Och Spine at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center has started seeing patients in their 20s. That age group rarely appeared in his practice before. Americans now average about seven hours a day on screens, according to DataReportal, and the physical body adapts…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A bioengineered chewing gum cut HPV levels by 93 percent in oral samples from head and neck cancer patients, in new research from the University of Pennsylvania. The same formulation, when loaded with an antimicrobial peptide called protegrin, brought two cancer-linked bacteria down to nearly zero and left the…
