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Smart recruiting: How edtech company Prodigy attracts purpose-driven staff
Prodigy uses video-game strategies to get kids excited about math and reading. Fittingly, fun is also front and centre in…
Wastewater, the world’s dirty (not so little) secret, consumes nearly 3 percent of the global electricity demand. It’s a staggering…
Three key challenges to the widespread use of EVs — and ideas for overcoming them. Canada has potential to be…
The worst fears didn’t come to pass and stability has returned, but the funding landscape has been changed. When Silicon…
By adding smart sensors to streetlights, Liveable Cities provides municipalities with information to help tackle everything from congestion and noise…
Amplify Capital’s Kathryn Wortsman wants every dollar to make a difference. The firm invests in promising startups working in education,…
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Making it work: How Axonify is optimizing employee satisfaction
Where and how we do our jobs is still in flux. But as CEO Carol Leaman argues, the need to…
The next pandemic — it’s a question of when not if. Climate change is altering how and where diseases spread,…
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How Kids Help Phone is using AI to help youth in need
The mental health charity is tapping into startup tech expertise with a new $2-million innovation challenge in partnership with MaRS…
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Why it pays to ask customers what they really want
By listening to their clients, these Canadian entrepreneurs were able to build better products — and speed up their company’s…
Developers of unmanned aerial vehicles are putting their latest inventions to the test at a new R&D centre near Ottawa….
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How two former university football teammates aim to level the playing field for underserved communities
Social enterprise Placemaking 4G is working to transform office culture — and give back to communities in the process. Bradley…
Mercator AI’s platform is “digitizing word of mouth,” giving contractors and real estate brokers a heads up on new projects….
If you worry about the health risks associated with aging, this may alarm you: Every eight years, the average human’s…
Our oceans are under threat. Year after year, our oceans are becoming more acidic and ecosystems that were once abundant…
What started as a school research project to create a sustainable alternative to plastic has grown into a burgeoning business….
Our eating habits need an overhaul. Growing and processing food is a massive source of greenhouse gases: Agriculture alone accounts…