Friday, June 26, 2026

Business

Sea otters keep a favourite rock tucked in a loose pouch of skin under each forearm, carry it between dives, and use it as...

Fewer than one percent of mammal species are known to use tools at all, and the number that retain a specific tool across multiple uses drops to a handful. Chimpanzees make the list. So do a few crows and...

TIME Names Vancouver Innovator as World’s Top GreenTech Company in 2026

A Vancouver company ranks as the world’s top green technology innovator. TIME partnered with data firm Statista on the second annual ranking of the World’s Top GreenTech Companies, naming 250 top performing companies operating within the green technologies wheelhouse. While only...

BC’s Tech Economy Is Too Big to Ignore

Five years ago, BC Tech published ‘A New Economic Narrative for BC’. The report provided a rigorous review of the data on BC’s economy and demonstrated that BC’s economy isn’t what we tell ourselves it is. We showed the massive...

MIT Media Lab and OpenAI tracked nearly 1,000 ChatGPT users for four weeks, but the early finding cut against the comfort the chatbot promised...

Picture someone at the end of a long day. The apartment is quiet. They open ChatGPT, not to draft an email or debug a script, but to say something close to: here is how I am feeling, tell me...

NESI Secures $5.6M to Advance Clean Technology Targeting Battery Sector

NORAM Electrolysis Systems has attracted public capital, the Vancouver-based clean technology innovator known as NESI revealed this week. NESI secured a total of $5.6 million in funding from the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia, the Canadian...

Now Vinyl is taking Time Out

Vinyl Group (ASX:VNL), backed by Wisetech founder Richard White, was in a trading halt, and has raised an additional $2.4 million, at $0.054 per share, a 10% discount on the June 5 closing price. The company says the raise was...

Here’s what I told a Senate committee looking at Budget’s CGT changes – and why they’re a problem for startups

I support the Government’s objectives for improving housing affordability and a fairer, sustainable tax system and changes to negative gearing and also reforms to capital gains tax (CGT). I have been a small business owner, built businesses to successful exits,...

Gallup has found only about one in five workers worldwide feel engaged on the job, but the number that should worry economies is even...

A quick note: I am not an economist, a psychologist, or an organizational scientist. This is me reading Gallup’s data and thinking out loud about it. The figures here are estimates and population-level patterns, not a diagnosis of your...

Canadian Startups Attract Record Capital at Okanagan Angel Summit

The 2026 Okanagan Angel Summit Finale concluded with more than $400,000 committed to Canadian startups, the largest amount in the program’s history. The Summit, powered by Accelerate Okanagan, is designed to bridge the gap between entrepreneurs seeking growth capital and...

Victoria’s Sepura Sells Out First Batch of Food Waste Device

Victoria-based Sepura has sold out the first production batch of root, its patented under-sink food separator, marking an early traction milestone for the B.C. sustainable hardware startup. The company said its first batch of pre-orders is scheduled to ship in...
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Apple just jacked up Macbook prices by 20% – so here’s where you can still find a bargain

The SKUs hardest hit by the almost-20% rise across Apple’s Mac and iPad ranges, with the tech giant saying...
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