BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Running, climbing stairs, squatting to pick something up from the floor: every one of these movements passes through the knees. It is easy to take that for granted until they start to complain. “Everybody could probably benefit from some sort of strengthening to improve stability of the knee,” says…
The government of Canada says its first round of funding through Canada’s AI Compute Access Fund will support 44 small and medium-sized businesses. Evan Solomon, the federal minister for AI and innovation, made the announcement during a press conference at Web Summit Vancouver on Tuesday. He said the $66 million handed out through the fund…
A 12-person Canadian startup is taking on US tech giant Apple in legal fights across the globe for alleged antitrust violations after Apple removed its video-sharing app from the App Store. Hamilton, Ont.-based Rave, the maker of a social streaming app that allows users to sync video streaming to remotely watch movies or TV shows…
Opennote, an edtech startup founded by three students in Guelph, Ont. and Irvine, Calif., has been acquired by San Francisco-based document control platform Reducto. “Their team deeply understood the product vision we were building.” Vedant Vyas, Opennote Opennote launched last year as an education personalization platform targeting undergraduate students. It allowed users to consolidate their…
Open-source, or closed? Green grids, or gas? Job security, or distrust? Who—or what—owns the future? Those were just a few of the questions posed Monday night as Web Summit Vancouver kicked off its sophomore conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre, where it welcomed the 20,000 attendees from more than 100 countries that will make up…
Toronto Tech Week is back for its sophomore year, and it’s scaling up. Launched in the wake of Collision Conference’s departure, last year’s debut drew more than 15,000 attendees and 500 speakers across 315 events. It was an experiment, but one that proved the city’s tech sector wanted its own thing. In only a year,…
Vancouver-based Photonic has completed the final close of its latest funding round, securing another $70 million USD ($95 million CAD) that will fuel the development of its quantum computers as the company advances towards commercialization. Photonic said this morning that this brings the total size of this financing to $200 million USD ($275 million CAD)…
Adam Froman is the founder and CEO of Delvinia. Canadian tech founders know when they have valuable intellectual property (IP), but few know what to do with it. That gap is costing our economy more than we realize. It’s not just in individual exits, though those are painful enough, but in the systematic erosion of…
The average person will probably go their whole life without uttering the words “payroll” and “super cool” in the same sentence, but that’s why Simon Bourgeois is a self-proclaimed payroll nerd. “I know it’s hard to [make payroll] seem cool, but man, I think what we’re doing right now is super cool.” Bourgeois is the…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM With Mother’s Day just behind us, conversations about everything that mothers give are top of mind. However, the biology of pregnancy has something more to say: the exchange runs in both directions, and some of it lasts a lifetime. There is a phenomenon in pregnancy that sounds more like…
