A Saskatchewan organization giving entrepreneurs a leg up is receiving financial support to the tune of $910,000, federal officials announced last Friday. Over the next two years, the SK Startup Institute expects to train roughly 1,200 program participants and serve 2,500 clients. The funding comes through PrairiesCan’s Regional Innovation Ecosystems (RIE) program, which invests in…
Montréal venture capital (VC) firm Boreal Ventures has officially launched its second seed fund after securing a $43-million CAD first close towards its $60-million target. Boreal’s second fund will invest in capital-efficient, business-to-business (B2B) Canadian technology startups. The early-stage VC firm announced the news on Monday. It also shared that ex-Lightspeed Commerce president and chief…
The Trump Administration has announced its vision for America’s future in the second half of the decade, starting in 2026, and running beyond his presidency. Given the cast of characters comprising the Trump White House, it is hard to believe that anything that doesn’t prioritize Israel being of interest to them, though they claim to…
Jupiter came up with the goods at last night’s Oscars with Michael B Jordan taking Best Actor for Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson a raft of awards including best movie for One Battle After Another. Michael B Jordan, 9 February 1987 8.14pm Orange, California, has a Sun Aquarius in his 5th house and an exact…
Missed opportunities and unexpected detours can be quiet acts of mercy, reminding us that what’s meant for us will find its way, even if the path takes longer. Best-selling author Rebecca Simon, author of Finding God Every Day, encourages trusting God’s guidance through delays, redirections, and the paths we never planned to take. What is…
The federal government has committed nearly $225 million to build out Canada’s ability to send its own rockets into space, including $200 million to lease a dedicated space‑launch pad that will serve as the central foundation for a multi-user spaceport near Canso, Nova Scotia. “While these announcements today are about rockets and launch sites for…
A research team at Ohio State University has taken a surprisingly ordinary ingredient—store‑bought shiitake mushrooms—and connected it to electrodes to see whether the fungus can behave like a memristor. A memristor (short for “memory resistor”) is an electronic component that both processes signals and stores data, promising faster, more energy‑efficient computing than today’s silicon‑based chips. Watch…
Credit: Tom Arthur from Orange, CA, United States Election integrity is an issue of outsized importance to securing the future prospects of the country. Right alongside national security, election integrity ought to be perceived as an extension of national security, for who controls our election procedures controls our government. In a highly globalized world, where…
Former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill recognized Islam’s threat to Europe in 1899. If only he could see the continent today. That year, Churchill published “The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan,” telling the account of Field Marshal Lord Horatio Kitchener’s conquest of that country. For context, this was…
Random thoughts on Trump’s cluster-catastrophe in the Middle East. With transiting Uranus square the Israel Mars until April 5th it always looked unlikely to be a speedy Venezuelan swan-in, smash n’ grab. Despite cheer-leading from the White House there is a creeping realisation of the weakness of their self-created (why bother to forward plan?) situation…
