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Canadian Companies Receive Most Exclusive Rights to University Patents, Survey Finds

A new national survey is challenging the perception that intellectual property developed at Canadian universities is routinely transferred to foreign companies. Co-authored by Brett Sharp, Associate Director of Technology Transfer at Innovation UBC, the analysis found that Canadian companies receive...

Psychology says men who have quietly lost their joy usually can’t point to when it happened — it wasn’t one thing, but a slow...

Ask him when it started and he’ll frown, because there’s no answer. Nothing happened. There was no crash, no bad year he can point to. Work is fine. The marriage is fine. He’s healthy, the mortgage gets paid, the kids...

Psychology says people who wave a hurried stranger ahead in line share traits most people never build — an instinct for reading the room,...

You’re fourth in line at the pharmacy with a full basket. Behind you, a man is holding one box of children’s medicine and checking his phone every few seconds. Something in his shoulders says the day is not going...

Living or working with someone who is always finding fault is genuinely draining, and the reason it stings is specific: their criticism attacks who...

Everyone knows the person who can always find the flaw. The relative who spots the one thing wrong with the meal, the colleague who greets every idea with what is wrong with it, the partner whose feedback never quite...

Psychology says the trait we most admire as “confidence” in leaders overlaps disturbingly often with narcissism, which helps explain why the wrong people so...

Watch how people are chosen for leadership positions and a pattern shows up. The person who speaks first in the meeting. The person who acts like they know the answer whether they do or not. The person who takes...

Venture Capital for Food-Tech Innovation is Shifting Flow, Report Finds

The Canadian Food Innovation Network today released its report covering the nation’s food-tech ecosystem. Across the first half of 2026, nearly 50 fundraising events have generated more than $60M in capital for food-tech companies nationwide. British Columbia saw the biggest raise...

Ideon Joins ‘Landmark’ Research Project to Advance Next-Gen Imaging Tech

Ideon Technologies has revealed that it intends to participate in a landmark international research-based consortium. An innovator of subsurface intelligence, Ideon uses energy from supernova explosions to see deep beneath the Earth’s surface, pioneering the development of cosmic-ray muon tomography...

Book review: Tech Bros, the Atlassian founders story, is big on detail, light on insight

But if you’re looking for startup inspiration, then this may not be the book for you. Ahead of the review, I admit I approached John Stensholt’s and Perry Williams’ book with a touch of unease, worrying the book would be...

‘Aussie AI’: assistant tech minister wants the data centre push to deliver higher up the ‘value chain’

In a lecture to be delivered at the ANU Crawford School Tuesday titled “Why Australia Needs to Turn Compute into Sovereign AI”, Charlton argues Australia needs to leverage its data centre advantage and translate that into benefits and growth...

When ByteDance moved to end its fortnightly six-day rota in 2021, a large share of its own staff objected rather than celebrated, because as...

A company scraps a schedule that forced its people to work an extra Sunday every other week, handing them back roughly 20 days a year. You would expect relief, maybe applause. Instead, a big share of the workforce pushed...
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