My father kept a spare tie in the glovebox of his car. Not for weddings. For the possibility that someone, somewhere, might need him at short notice on a Sunday. He didn’t want to arrive looking like a man...
A partnership between the University of British Columbia, Rogers Communications and Mitacs is developing a new model for moving promising university research beyond the laboratory and into practical use.
At the centre of the collaboration is Operation EInsTein, a commercialization...
The federal government is investing in British Columbia.
Specifically, Canada unveiled $11 million for 10 organizations in Northern B.C. to help upgrade technology, upskill workers, and improve operations in the face of “global trade pressures.”
The funding hails from PacifiCan’s Regional...
New York City’s noise cameras logged almost 16,000 loud-vehicle events last year, but the programme meant to police the city’s illegally modified exhausts is running at less than half the size the law says it should be. Twelve microphone-equipped...
For many trades contractors, the workday does not end when the crew leaves the job site.
Quotes still need to be prepared, schedules updated, invoices checked and customer reports written—often using information scattered across emails, text messages, accounting platforms and...
The alarm on my phone is set for six. I have not heard it go off in about three years. Most mornings I drift up at ten to, lie there for a minute doing nothing useful, and get up...
Four researchers asked 130 single adults at a Canadian university to rate five sentences from one to seven, one of which read “Being single has the potential to make me grow as a person in the future,” and then...
Hypersonic flight is above Mach 5 – at least five times the speed of sound – around 3,800mph or 6,100kmh. For perspective, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, which hit Mach 3.3 (3,529 km/h) 50 years ago (and was retired in...
The 40x program is designed for the founders of software startups already generating revenue and scaling, and setting up to raise capital in the next 12 months.
It will bring together up to 40 of Australia’s most promising early-stage...
Ask someone why they feel better after an hour in the park and the answer usually comes out vague. Fresh air. The exercise, maybe. Just nice to get out.
That undersells it. There is a reasonably specific explanation for the...
