The idea that a demanding, critical childhood leaves a recognisable mark on the adult is one of those claims that is broadly true and easy to overstate. Certain patterns do show up more often in people raised by parents...
It’s not just a new technology.
It’s not a fad.
It’s an undeniable revolution.
Did this article’s introduction seem AI generated? What made you feel that way?
The truth is, it was not AI generated; I wrote it to emulate synthetic prose, the...
Rapidly rising in popularity over the past several years, artificial intelligence tools have been shown to boost productivity in workplaces.
But AI technology could be having negative implications on future talent—those still young enough to be developing their own personal...
Burnaby-based medical technology company Kardium is scaling up production of its flagship heart-treatment system with support from the federal government.
Ottawa is contributing up to $31.25 million through its Strategic Response Fund toward Kardium’s $125 million manufacturing expansion in British...
A woman I know counted the guests at her own birthday dinner and got to forty-one. Three weeks later her father was admitted to hospital and she sat in the corridor scrolling her contacts for twenty minutes without finding...
There’s a particular kind of unease that shows up sometime in the twenties: the sense of having built a life that technically works on paper, ticks the boxes other people seem to expect, and still doesn’t feel like yours....
Ask most people who write for the internet for a living what they think of Facebook as a place to build an audience, and you’ll get some version of the same tired joke: it’s where your aunt lives now,...
Electric vehicle drivers throughout British Columbia’s Okanagan and Boundary Country regions now have more high-speed charging options.
FortisBC this month announced the opening of three new high-powered EV charging stations in Rock Creek and Kelowna in addition to accessibility upgrades.
The...
Ask a new mother a few months in how her mind feels and a common answer is some version of foggy, slower, harder to hold a thought. The instinct, both her own and everyone else’s, is usually to treat...
A friend’s daughter played me her favourite song last week. It came out in 1977. She’s seventeen, which makes this roughly the emotional equivalent of me claiming my favourite song came out during the reign of Queen Victoria.
I asked...
