Some weather stations in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile have recorded no measurable rainfall for centuries. Not a drizzle. Not a passing shower. And yet, in the same terrain where the soil chemistry more closely resembles Mars than...
Innovation UBC has introduced its 2026 cohort of Venture Development Specialists, pairing five UBC Sauder graduate students with eight early-stage companies working to bring university research to market.
The specialists are Lisa Popplewell, Drew Blackmun, Nkemdilim Okwuchi, Mitchell Liebrecht, and...
This article is part of a series presented in partnership with BC Tech, profiling the finalists for the 2026 Technology Impact Awards‘ Company of the Year – Startup category.
Cities do not lack activities or people looking for connection. What...
The case involved a four-month sexual relationship between the two in early 2022.
Lo Russo, who joined the software scaleup in January 2022, after five years at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, commenced Federal Court proceedings for harassment and discrimination against...
My grand-aunt sat at the head of every family table for as long as I knew her.
She was the one you cleared the big decisions with, whose opinion could end an argument, the matriarch three generations arranged themselves around....
For years my actual job was to make strangers feel like regulars before the bread hit the table. Restaurants run on it. A guest walks in cold, slightly on guard, half-convinced they’ve overdressed, and you’ve got about ninety seconds...
Corgi, a business-insurance startup that sells coverage to other startups, announced on May 28 a $106 million Series B1 round that values it at $2.6 billion. The raise landed just three weeks after the company disclosed a $160 million...
A retirement move can succeed on nearly every term used to justify it. The home may cost less, the weather may be kinder and the days may feel less hurried. A person can be pleased with all of that...
Wendy Wood, a psychologist, handed pagers to a group of undergraduates and asked them to record what they were doing, where they were, and what they were thinking every hour they were awake. When she and her colleagues tallied...
The last time I paid someone a proper compliment, they looked at the floor like I’d dropped a twenty and were deciding whether to tell me. Not a “nice jacket.” The kind that names something true about who a...
