Friday, October 16, 2026

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TryCanadian Launches Digital Directory for North-of-the-Border Alternatives

Amidst ongoing trade tensions with the US, a startup out of Vancouver is helping consumers shop from Canadian sources. “At a time of economic uncertainty and growing trade tensions, choosing Canadian when it makes sense can help keep more of...

Research suggests parents who form unbreakable bonds with their children aren’t the ones who never missed a school play or always had the right...

Most descriptions of a securely loved childhood read like a highlight reel. Every school play attended. The right thing said when the hamster died. Never once losing the plot in a supermarket queue. Decades of developmental research point somewhere far...

Psychology suggests people who have no real hobbies outside of work aren’t always workaholics or driven —they’ve often built their entire sense of self...

Put someone on the spot about what they do for fun and watch what happens. Some answer straight away. Others go quiet, run a quick internal search, and land on something they used to do. Football, maybe. Twelve years...

Startmate alumni Evatto raises $1.02 million pre-Seed

The raise was led by Perth VC Purpose Ventures and will go towards product development, international expansion and fresh faces on the team. The year-old Sydney startup is building an AI-powered enterprise platform for managing complex event programs, replacing the...

Why Apple, Google and other global tech giants will hate the ATO’s latest ruling on cross-border payments

Now, a new approach could significantly increase tax collected from multinationals such as Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon. These companies earn significant revenue from Australian consumers. However, much of the profit is ultimately recognised overseas. Traditional tax rules have not...

A whale lays down earwax in alternating light and dark layers for its entire life and never sheds it. Researchers who split a plug...

Somewhere in the vertebrate zoology collections of the Natural History Museum in London and the Smithsonian in Washington, several hundred waxy cylinders sit in wax-preserving conditions inside carefully labelled drawers. Most of them were removed from the carcasses of...

A heatwave in the summer of 2016 thawed ground on the Yamal Peninsula that had held a reindeer carcass since at least the 1940s....

The 2016 anthrax outbreak on the Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia is one of the more consequential public health events of the past decade that most people outside veterinary epidemiology have never heard of. It killed a child. It...

On January 5, 2025 New York began billing drivers to cross into Manhattan below 60th Street, and by New Year’s Eve 27 million fewer...

On January 5, 2025, New York started charging most drivers to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Central Business District Tolling Program, better known as congestion pricing, applies a base E-ZPass toll of $9 for passenger...

EarthDaily Clears Path to Supply Satellite Imagery to Ottawa

Vancouver-based EarthDaily Analytics has secured a standing offer that could make its commercial satellite imagery more accessible across the federal government. The company has been awarded a Government of Canada National Master Standing Offer for Commercial Satellite Imagery, establishing a...

Five B.C. Startups Selected for 2026 Ocean Startup Challenge

Five British Columbia startups developing technologies for seafood safety, coastal resilience, maritime operations and ocean monitoring have been selected for the 2026 Ocean Startup Challenge. The B.C.-based members of the 15-company national cohort are A-Scent Innovations, FluxAtlas, InBridge AI, Retide...
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Snakes, and their ladders

It confirmed the worst suspicions of embittered Australian startup founders and small business owners. We are an afterthought. We...
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