UniUni customer Point2Point Global is alleging in a new lawsuit that the Richmond, BC-based last-mile delivery company deliberately didn’t deliver thousands of its packages because it beat UniUni for a contract with a lucrative customer. The US-based peer delivery service filed the lawsuit against UniUni’s California-based subsidiary last month. The allegations have not yet been…
We’re back with more select cuts from BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall, where we hosted over 500 Canadian tech leaders at the iconic TIFF Lightbox for conversations about our nation’s autonomy, security, and prosperity. It was all in support of our 2026 BetaKit Most Ambitious issue, which tells stories of nearly 100 innovators strengthening Canadian…
Laurent Carbonneau is the vice-president of policy and advocacy at the Council for Canadian Innovators (CCI). Government buying is big business. At between 12 and 14 percent of Canada’s GDP in any given year, it’s comparable to the economy of Alberta or the turnover of our natural resources sector. It also accounts for just over…
One year ago, open-source AI coding agent OpenCode debuted at a DevTools Toronto meetup with maybe 30 people in the room. That tool now has eight million monthly active users and expects to bring in around $25 million in annual revenue. It’s all led by Jay V, a University of Waterloo alumnus who, clad in…
Somewhere in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), nestled in a nondescript building, is one of Canada’s most powerful supercomputers. Its presence is not advertised, and BetaKit was asked to avoid any details that might be used to specify its exact location, due to security concerns, and because it is home to close to $200 million…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For decades, researchers looked for the seat of magnetoreception in all the obvious places: the eyes, the inner ear, the beak. A study just published in Science points somewhere none of them expected. The organ doing the magnetic navigation work in homing pigeons appears to be the liver. Iron…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Picture two parents, both devoted. Both called every Sunday. Both showed up for birthdays, sent money when things got hard, and made every visible effort. One of them has an adult child who calls with the hard stuff: the job that fell apart, the relationship that ended badly, the…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For decades, high clinical risk and chemotherapy arrived together as a package deal in early breast cancer. A trial presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago on May 30, 2026, is pulling them apart. The OPTIMA trial enrolled more than 4,400 patients across the United…
Episode Description: An oncologist cried at her desk when she read these latest trial results. Researchers put exercise wheels in empty fields and sand dunes, and wild mice found them and ran, unprompted, for no reward. A new drug just cleared hepatitis B from the body entirely for one in five patients. Not suppressed. Cleared….
When Ali Shahid and Hira Malik entered IDEA Mississauga’s Step-Up Program last year, their corporate catering tech platform, Food Mamba, was a year-old startup still figuring out how to scale. Six months later, after the program helped the husband-and-wife founders secure grants, enter pitch competitions, and connect with industry experts and legal support, Food Mamba…
