The brain-food article is a fixture of the internet. Eat blueberries for memory, oily fish for focus, dark chocolate and walnuts and a fistful of supplements, and your mind will run sharper by lunchtime. The genre is soothing because...
Every few weeks another version of the same post goes round: master these five, or seven, or ten social skills and watch your career take off. The advice is usually a mix of the obvious and the unfalsifiable, but...
There is a particular kind of business dinner where the deal is not the only thing being assessed. Someone orders the second-cheapest wine, or the most expensive. Someone holds a fork like a pen, or cuts everything up first,...
Two BC innovators on retaining tech talent and what’s at stake as AI raises the bar.
Canada trains some of the best AI and technical talent in the world. The key is connecting these exceptional people with companies to help...
The FIFA World Cup delivered a measurable matchday boost to Vancouver businesses, according to new Visa data that found in-person spending rose by as much as 12.7% compared with the same period in 2025.
Vancouver’s largest increase came on June...
Vancouver-based Beedie Capital has acquired a 50% ownership interest in Vistara Growth and will anchor the investment firm’s next major fund.
The Vistara Growth Structured Opportunities Fund is scheduled to launch this fall with a target size of US$500 million....
In her Q2 CY2026 update to shareholders, Perkins said the “average cost of serving an AI task was too high” – an issue companies such as Atlassian, which recently capped employee spending on AI, are dealing with as they...
Michael is an over-achiever who has written 10 books about change, the future and human behaviour. I’ve written one, and it was mostly about gin.
I invited Michael onto my new podcast, StoryWork, because I always leave our conversations thinking...
People often report arriving, somewhere around their forties, at a distinction between being alone and being lonely. It tends to get described as a stage: something you reach once the noise of early adulthood settles down.
The stage part is...
Everyone has met someone whose kindness seems to switch on the moment an audience appears. The compliment paid loudly in a meeting, the charity post shared right after the donation, the warmth that thins out the moment nobody useful...
