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Ottawa Backs Kardium’s $125 Million Burnaby Manufacturing Expansion

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...

Psychology suggests people who have dozens of acquaintances but no close friends aren’t necessarily shallow or emotionally unavailable — they may have learned how...

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...

Twentysomethings who feel quietly derailed by their own life aren’t uniquely broken — a study spanning eight countries, from Athens to Jakarta, found the...

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....

While most food publishers spent 2025 panicking about Google’s AI Overviews eating their traffic, one blog quietly stopped treating Google as the plan, posting...

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,...

FortisBC Bolsters Charging Network so ‘Drivers Can Travel with Confidence’

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...

New mothers who feel foggy and distracted in the first months aren’t losing their sharpness — brain scans show measurable grey-matter changes in 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...

Psychology says people drawn to music and films from before they were born are not usually longing for memories they actually lived — they...

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...

This new app helps startups find funding opportunities from around the world

Funding Atlas is a new app from Melbourne-based entrepreneur and filmmaker David Raynor intended to make it easier for startup founders to unearth opportunities for accelerators, funding, grants, and incubators all around the world. The 75-year-old app developer was looking...

OpenAI has handed out $5.5 million in startup credits in just 9 months

OpenAI has bookmarked Australia as part of its top 10 global markets for developers building on its platform. The credits milestone was marked at OpenAI’s recent Sydney Founder Day, which saw roughly 150 builders gather to discuss the technology. Year 12...

In January 2026, the largest human–AI creativity comparison yet tested language models against 100,000 people. GPT‑4 beat the average person at generating unexpected associations...

Try the experiment before reading the result. Write down ten English nouns that are as different from one another as possible. Not opposites. Not ten objects you can see. Not a tour through one category. Ten words whose meanings and...
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A new study suggests the person who left your message unanswered tends to feel worse about it than you imagine, and worse still when...

“What do you think of this?” That is the last message in one version of an experiment funded by the...
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