In early 1982, a struggling Chicago rock band received the strangest voicemail in music history. Jim Peterik of Survivor came home, saw the blinking light on his answering machine — still a novelty back then — and pressed play.
“Hey,...
People are good at diagnosing what’s wrong. They’re not great at following through and fixing it.
They say things like:
“I think I need to ask my cofounder to step down.”
“I know this sales hire isn’t working.”
“That person is underperforming, and...
Some movies are ahead of their time. “Donnie Darko” managed something stranger: it arrived at precisely the worst moment in modern history for its own plot.
Richard Kelly’s debut — a moody, time-bending story about a troubled teenager, a six-foot...
The vision board is a fixture of wellness advice: a collage of the life you want, the house, the trip, the toned body, the corner office, pinned up where you will see it and, the theory goes, drawn steadily...
Talent systems are built to notice speed. The child winning early is selected, funded and given more specialised practice. The slower child is easier to overlook, even when that slower development may be part of the path that eventually...
Victoria-based Shift Technologies this month awarded its 2026 Shift Impact Grant Recipient to PhyCo Technologies.
Shift, which last year launched a completely customizable browsing experience, awarded its second annual $25,000 Impact Grant to PhyCo, a marine biotech company turning seaweed into...
Vancouver is “something of a curiosity in the energy transition,” concludes a new report.
The report, “From Strength to Scale: How Metro Vancouver Can Capture Economic Opportunity in the Global Energy Transition,” hails from The Zero Emissions Innovation Centre, a...
They usually confess it half-joking, braced for the reaction: “Honestly? I like her more than most people.”
The her is a dog, or a cat, or a horse. And the confession is true in a way the joke is built...
On its opening weekend in September 1994, the movie now rated the greatest of all time couldn’t crack the top eight. The Shawshank Redemption limped in at No. 9 — behind, among other things, a sex comedy called “Exit...
When researchers say happiness often improves with age, the phrase can create a misleading picture. It sounds as if older people simply receive more of the same emotion, as though the volume is turned up on a feeling everyone...
