Montréal-based Lightspeed Commerce is raising its yearly outlook for a second straight quarter after posting revenue of $312.3 million USD, slightly beating its internal forecasts. The e-commerce and point-of-sales firm announced its fiscal Q3 earnings before the markets opened today. During a traditionally busy quarter for retailers, Lightspeed’s revenue and profitability numbers met internal forecasts…
Microsoft provided the FBI with Bitlocker encryption keys. It should come as no surprise that a US-based cloud storage service provided US intelligence with backdoor access. Encryption is only as strong as the one who controls the key to lock it. Microsoft, the world’s dominant provider of desktop and enterprise systems, complied with an FBI warrant and…
The World’s Number One Remote Viewer Visits Japan! Joe & Nancy McMoneagle have come to Japan for the first time in 17 years. This is big news! But do readers even know who Joe McMoneagle is? Twenty years ago, Joe appeared on Japanese TV 14 times, demonstrating psychic abilities and locating missing persons, instantly becoming…
We warmly welcome Hugh Evans, author of The Origin of Time, as our featured author this month. In his book series, The Origins, Hugh examines the Star Maps of Gwynedd —over 1,000,000 acres of star maps on the ground in North Wales. Hugh argues that the Star Maps of Gwynedd, composed of 88 constellations, were…
Some homes announce themselves immediately. Others ask you to slow down. Tucked behind gates and layers of greenery in Brentwood, Benmore Terrace belongs to the latter. You don’t arrive at this house so much as you move through it—past a sequence of landscape, light, and quiet intention—until the architecture reveals itself. Designed in 1960 by…
Ray Boehm is something of a legend at Rayhawk Technologies, the railcar-loading automation startup that bears his name. It’s not just that he’s the father of founder Tom Boehm, or that he occasionally shows up to the Saskatoon-based facility dressed head-to-toe in Rayhawk gear. It’s that his life story has become a part of the…
Brilliant Harvest, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform serving the heavy equipment industry, announced today that it has secured $4 million USD ($5.4 million CAD) in seed funding. “From a commercialization standpoint, we’re expanding — almost all of our dealer customers sell both agriculture and construction.” Remi Schmaltz, Brilliant Harvest. The Calgary-based AgTech startup is an…
February is an invitation to soften the edges of everyday life. To bring a little more beauty into the routines we’re already living—how we care for ourselves, how we move through our homes, how we show up for the people we love (including ourselves). Romance this month needn’t be tied to a single day—it can…
“If we don’t explore more why all of these secret lists exist,” one US intelligence officer said, there could be “even more of an environment of paranoia on the ground and more tragic killings.” Despite denials from a senior Trump administration official, secret watchlists of Americans are being used by federal agencies to track and categorize US…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In a world where the scale of plastic pollution can feel overwhelming, 2025 brought a milestone worth celebrating: The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit dedicated to removing plastic from marine environments, pulled more than 25 million kilograms of waste from global waters last year alone. That’s over 55 million…
