Former Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan’s new defence tech startup is laying the foundation for a public listing on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV). Vancouver-based Juno Industries announced the sale of 15 million subscription receipts at 80 cents a piece on Friday morning, securing the company $12 million CAD in financing ahead of a…
Women’s Equity Lab (WEL) Manitoba has closed its third fund, and at $300,000 CAD it marks the first time the Manitoba chapter of the venture capital collective has reached full subscription. “We’re having to turn people away that have expressed interest now that we’ve reached our full subscription.” WEL Manitoba announced the closure of the…
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton is afraid that powerful AI could eventually wipe out humanity, and he has a striking idea for how to prevent that from happening. If we embed “maternal instincts” in AI now, we could ensure it does not want to get rid of us, Hinton said on Thursday at the Ontario Centre…
What will unfold in Lebanon after Iranian pressure on Trump to enforce a provisional Zionist ceasefire? by vanessa beeley I sit down with Lebanese journalist Marwa Osman to clarify the Resistance strategy in collaboration with Iran and in defiance of Lebanese state plans to normalise with the enemy ‘Israel’ Read on Substack I sit down…
forms of activism, adapted from the book Deep Green Resistance The latest impassioned article from Patrick Lawrence, entitled We Must Learn to Disobey, asserts: The fate of democracy, whether it endures or disappears, is decided in the minds and hearts of its citizens before it is decided in legislatures, in elections, in courts, or in…
Steven Wang is CEO of Venture for Canada and lecturer at Harvard University and the University of Toronto. . . . As Canada enters graduation season, approximately 650,000 post-secondary students are preparing to enter the workforce. They will arrive at a time when youth unemployment already sits at 13.8 percent, more than double the national…
Smart storage is as important as the supplies themselves. Instead of keeping everything in one hidden spot, use a “layered” approach by distributing items in key areas around your home for faster access. Create immediate response hubs in critical locations. Store life-saving items in the specific rooms where emergencies are most likely to happen, so…
In a historic moment marking the end of an era for independent media, Alex Jones signed off from InfoWars for the final time on Thursday, after 27 years of broadcasting from the network he built into a powerhouse of alternative news and commentary. Infowars’ final show was streamed live. It featured Jones, surrounded by his…
Mallory McMorrow Deleted tweets from Michigan State Senator and Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow are making the rounds and show how little she really thinks about middle America and the people she is campaigning to represent. Recently, McMorrow deleted around 6,000 posts from her social media accounts, including ones that desparage her new state…
Toronto Tech Week’s marquee opening event has unveiled its full lineup of speakers. Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey, Dominion Dynamics founder Eliot Pence, and more leaders from across Canada’s innovation ecosystem will join the BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall on May 25. “We’re on a mission to change the country, and that…
