Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Business

BC TechMap 2026 Charts the Players Powering B.C.’s Tech Ecosystem

The BC Tech Association has published its BC TechMap 2026, a visual snapshot of the companies, organizations, and ecosystem builders helping shape the province’s innovation economy. The annual map is designed to showcase the key players across B.C.’s technology sector...

My dad is almost 70 and has no close friends, and I’ve stopped trying to fix it, because I finally understood he doesn’t experience...

My father is almost seventy and he has no close friends. Not one. No mate he rings on a Sunday, no old colleague he meets for a beer, nobody who would notice, in the first day or two, if...

CIB and TELUS Collaborate to ‘Close the Connectivity Gap’ in Remote Regions

The Canada Infrastructure Bank and TELUS are expanding high-speed internet service across British Columbia. CIB and TELUS announced this week that they have formalized an agreement which sees a total of nearly $400M committed to the project. This includes a sizeable...

Startup Zamala Uses AI to Bring Cultural Context to Event Planning

When Juliana Morais and Raphael Andrade helped friends plan celebrations in Vancouver, they kept running into the same problem: finding the right local people for the right kind of event was harder than it should be. A wedding, birthday, quinceañera,...

WiseTech Global founder Richard White steps down as chair

Independent director Raelene Murphy, who only joined the WiseTech board in January, will replace him as chair. White remains a director and continues in his executive role as chief innovation officer. The change comes after WiseTech (ASX: WTC) share price plunged...

Founding a business also has its ‘terrible twos’: so here’s what I want other founders to know

What nobody tells you is that the hardest part isn’t the business, rather it’s shedding your identity. I had spent 15 years in banking, which is long enough to become someone whose career came with infrastructure: a team, a budget,...

An 80+ year Harvard study suggests that the strongest predictor of how happy and healthy people are in later life often isn’t wealth, career...

The Harvard Study of Adult Development, which began in 1938 is widely acknowledged as longest in-depth study of physical and mental wellbeing ever run on a group of adults. The original participants fell into two groups: 268 Harvard College students...

People who spend a few minutes several times a week writing down what they’re grateful for tend to report higher well-being, better sleep, and...

A note on what follows: we are writers and editors reading the research, not clinicians or psychologists. These are patterns measured across thousands of people, and one of the studies below is a survey rather than an experiment. A...

People who spend even short amounts of time outdoors in green space tend to show measurable drops in stress hormones — and researchers have...

We are writers and editors reading the research, not clinicians or mental health professionals. What follows describes what one group of studies found; it is not health advice, and nothing here is a substitute for guidance from a qualified...

Many people who followed the blueprint their parents handed them — work hard, stay loyal, save steadily — didn’t fail because they applied it...

We are writers and editors, not financial advisers or economists. What follows is journalism about a documented economic pattern, not guidance for your own saving, career, or money decisions. For those, speak to a qualified professional who knows your...
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News Wrap: 7 dead after storms and floods in Midwest

In our news wrap Monday, a week of heavy storms and catastrophic floods in the Midwest has killed at...
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