Canada’s upcoming AI strategy will consider the perspective of workers through a yet-to-be-formed AI and Labour Advisory Council, according to AI Minister Evan Solomon. The council stems from a desire to maintain regular contact with labour leaders following initial meetings last week, Solomon told BetaKit in an interview at Chips North on Tuesday. Solomon acknowledged…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Before any vaccine can protect a child, someone has to reach them. Around 12.3 million of the children covered by the Big Catch-Up had never received a single dose of anything: not measles, not polio, not diphtheria. They are known as zero-dose children, and the reasons they go unvaccinated…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Most lawn care advice focuses on the grass itself: the seed variety, the mowing height, the fertilizer schedule. Tony Burris, Lawn Services Supervisor at Killingsworth Environmental, says that framing misses the mark. “Soil with poor nutrient availability or extreme pH levels will always struggle to support and retain grass,”…
OpenText reported steady Q3 revenue and increased profits on Thursday, after markets closed. It was a warm welcome for the company’s new CEO, who is taking over as the company has been restructuring to focus on its core businesses. The company’s quarterly revenue was $1.28 billion USD ($1.75 billion CAD), up two percent year over…
Technology entrepreneurs, employees, and investors are hungry for liquidity, but geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty has made accessing it a tall task. At NACO Summit in Ottawa on Wednesday, leaders from Dentons, HarbourVest Partners, and TMX Group unpacked the current state of Canada’s exit markets, and some of the approaches that businesses have been taking to…
If Bobbie Racette could split herself into “a million pieces” as a mentor, she would. She’s an Indigenous, queer woman in tech, and the first Indigenous woman in Canada to raise a Series A round for her now-exited startup, Virtual Gurus. Because of this, Racette explained at the NACO Summit in Ottawa on Thursday morning,…
MDA Space’s stock rose on Thursday after the company reported strong increased revenue, and suggested that it’s eyeing a starry future and continuing work on the Canadarm’s successor as nations ramp up a new, sovereign space race. The Brampton, Ont.-based company reported a net income of just under $30 million CAD in the first quarter…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In today’s digital world, the pull of screens can be difficult to overcome, particularly for kids. However, the dangers of spending too much time indoors are serious. Carlene Fider, Ph.D., a core faculty member at Pacific Oaks College, emphasizes the importance of outdoor exploration for children’s overall development: “Encouraging…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In 2005, more than half of Paraguay’s population lived in poverty. By 2025, that share had fallen to 16 percent. A third of the country’s population crossed that threshold over two decades; around 300,000 more did so in just the last two years. A World Bank analysis published in…
If you ask Canadian finance minister Francois Champagne what the federal government’s north star is, he’ll tell you that it’s about being “a lighthouse in the fog of uncertainty.” Champagne dropped that particularly poetic line during a fireside chat at the Canada Payments Summit in Toronto on Wednesday. “Canadians are craving for more competition in…
