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| Mar 2, 2026 | Fire Hazard: The Mounting Costs of Northwest Sprawl | Introduction
Wildfires, for millennia a natural feature of Northwest landscapes, have erupted into arguably the most politically vexing, expensive, and far-reaching climate change challenge in the region. A dangerous recipe of reduced snowp... |
| Apr 27, 2025 | Canada car attack suspect had mental health issues, 11 dead | VANCOUVER: The suspect in a Canadian car-ramming attack that left 11 dead at a Filipino street party acted deliberately and had a history of mental health problems, police said Sunday (Apr 27), warning the toll could rise.
No motive has bee... |
| Sep 14, 2024 | “The workers deserve to be compensated too”: UFCW Local 247 responds to $4-million dollar payout to B.C. tree-fruit growers | OKANAGAN, British Columbia, Sept. 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UFCW Local 247 is currently working with the court-appointed Monitor, who is overseeing the insolvency, to help employees apply for compensation under Canada’s Wage Earner Prote... |
| Sep 14, 2024 | “The workers deserve to be compensated too”: UFCW Local 247 responds to $4-million dollar payout to B.C. tree-fruit growers | OKANAGAN, British Columbia, Sept. 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UFCW Local 247 is currently working with the court-appointed Monitor, who is overseeing the insolvency, to help employees apply for compensation under Canada’s Wage Earner Prote... |
| May 21, 2024 | Notorious serial killer who murdered over 20 women assaulted in prison, in life-threatening condition | Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who killed over 20 women, has been hospitalized and is in life-threatening condition after an assault at a Quebec prison, authorities said Tuesday.
The 74-year-old was convicted of six counts... |
| Apr 17, 2024 | Postmedia announced the launch of a new app | Postmedia today announced the launch of a new app offering subscribers an integrated, streamlined and personalized experience, with seamless access to their preferred content across Postmedia’s brands.
“Our readers have told us what they wa... |
| Mar 27, 2024 | Canada's First Nations are building the densest neighborhood in the country by reclaiming their ancestral land and defying NIMBYs | Economy Canada's First Nations are building the densest neighborhood in the country by reclaiming their ancestral land and defying NIMBYs
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| Jan 16, 2024 | Everything to know about season 2 of 'The Last of Us' | Entertainment Everything to know about season 2 of 'The Last of Us'
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| Jan 12, 2024 | The daughter of infamous cult leader Warren Jeffs opens up about escaping the polygamous Mormon sect — and the moment she knew she had to leave: 'There's healing after trauma' | Entertainment The daughter of infamous cult leader Warren Jeffs opens up about escaping the polygamous Mormon sect — and the moment she knew she had to leave: 'There's healing after trauma'
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| Jan 10, 2024 | Best Online Casinos in Canada for 2024 | Many online casinos are available to Canadian players; most support table games, slots, video poker, and more. Getting started often takes minutes and you can easily deposit and withdraw funds with CAD.
This guide reveals the 15 best online... |
| Sep 20, 2023 | Top Funding Programs for Canada’s Craft Breweries | Canada’s craft brewery journey began in 1985 with the opening of Granville Island Brewing in British Columbia and Ontario’s Upper Canada Brewing Company. Canada’s craft breweries have been overflowing with support since the mid-2000s as bee... |
| Jul 24, 2023 | Why Self-advocacy Is Key To Disability-Inclusive Climate Emergency Planning | TOPSHOT - Kern County Fire Captain Bruce Wells uses a hose line to keep fire from burning up a tree ... [+] as the wildfire burns closer to homes during the French Fire in the Sequoia National Forest near Wofford Heights, California on Augu... |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Latinas are carving out space in horror and other popular book genres | U.S. Latino and Latin American authors have carved out their own space in some of literature's most sought-out genres — fantasy, science fiction, thrillers, and horror — while including in their works critiques of colonialism, colorism, gov... |
| Apr 10, 2023 | Don't Let Progressives Assign A Dollar Value To Human Life | WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 23: Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), chair of the House Energy ... [+] and Commerce Committee speaks to the media on March 23, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Feb 17, 2023 | BC's Gold River Aquafarms aiming to break ground on steelhead RAS in Q3 2023 | Planning continues on a project that could provide a way forward for Canada’s land-based aquaculture industry.
Gold River Aquafarms is seeking to build a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility on the site of a former sawmill in the... |
| Jan 29, 2023 | 🏙️ AI is coming for your job | What were you doing on Wednesday night? More than 150 of you were with us for our sold-out #vtjtalks event on ChatGPT, robotics, and how AI will change everything. And boy was it the hot ticket.
Unsurprisingly, GPT was the centre of debate.... |
| Oct 26, 2022 | Canada’s fisheries minister no longer proposing salmon net-pen bans in BC | Salmon farmers in British Columbia, Canada appear to no longer be facing the imminent end of net-pen farming in the entire region following several tours of the region by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard (... |
| Aug 21, 2022 | 💸 58 deals and $807M, so far | Last week, the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) released investment data for the first half of 2022. The province took in $807 million over 58 deals in the first half of the fiscal year — down from $1.83 billio... |
| Jul 3, 2022 | 😳 $40M in fuel | Morning friends. I spent this long weekend in Coquitlam, and the Canada Day fireworks display at Lafarge Lake was fantastic. It was sooo good that I’ve already put it in my calendar for next year. Now, as to what’s on my agenda for this mon... |
| Jun 26, 2022 | 👩💻 Meet the woman driving DEI at EA Games | As, essentially, Vancouver Tech Journal's kid sibling, it kind of felt like I had the run of the place with William and Kate away at Collision. Hopefully they don't notice all the beer cans in the recycling bin and that car parked on the la... |
| Jun 19, 2022 | 📜 Did you make BC Tech's shortlist of top companies? | Juneuary’s downpours might be in full swing, but that hasn’t dampened the amount of tech news we have for you this week — including a deep-dive on the Technology Impact Awards shortlist. Luckily, we’ve heard that the sun is on the horizon, ... |
| Apr 24, 2022 | Can a company from PoCo change the world? | Good morning! While Will is away sipping margaritas poolside, I’m… well, I was going to say I’m slugging it out in this horrid rain, but it’s actually nice right now and promises to stay that way for most of the weekend. And then it gets ba... |
| Mar 13, 2022 | 🇩🇪 From East Berlin to B.C. | Good morning everyone. It’s Erin Gee here. I co-host the Bad + Bitchy Podcast where we discuss current events and pop culture through the lens of intersectional feminism, and I'm also one of VTJ’s special guest editors this month. Over the ... |
| Mar 8, 2022 | Canada Shuts Down Numerous Crypto Scams | The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has clamped down on cryptocurrency scams, according to a report by The Vancouver Sun.
The Canadian authorities have blocked several fraudulent crypto platforms that have been luring unsuspecting into partin... |
| Jan 26, 2022 | COVID-19 live updates: Growing divide between double-vaxxed and boosted: Survey; Alberta hospitalizations hit another pandemic-high, Paxlovid treatment announced | With COVID-19 news changing every day, we have created this file to keep you up-to-date on all the latest stories and information in and around Edmonton. Are you experiencing COVID-19 symptoms?
Before calling Health Link use the COVID-19 As... |
| Jan 4, 2022 | These are the 10 most expensive homes in B.C., according to the latest assessments | The B.C. Assessment Authority has released a list of the 10 most valuable residential properties in B.C. as of July 1, 2021. Here they are, starting with the most valuable:
1 – 3085 Point Grey Road, Vancouver
The manse that leggings built. ... |
| Nov 7, 2021 | 📰 The $800M SaaS company hiring a new media team | Good morning everyone. Welcome to the hundreds of new readers with us this week. I invite you to join me and my friends at Switchboard PR for a special Twitter Spaces online show where we’ll share tips for tech companies to tell their story... |
| Nov 1, 2021 | ICUs Fill Up with Non-Vaccinated Patients | COVID-19 Respiratory Therapist Observes | Urian B., Tech Times 01 November 2021, 02:11 am
(Photo : Image from Unsplash Website) ICUs Fill Up with Non-Vaccinated Patients | COVID-19 Respiratory Therapist Observes
ICUs are now being filled up with non-vaccinated patients as observed ... |
| Oct 18, 2021 | Half of Canadian parents plan to get their kids 5-11 vaccinated against COVID-19: Poll | Half of Canadian parents say they plan to get their younger kids vaccinated as soon as a COVID-19 shot becomes available to them.
Results from an Angus Reid Institute survey released Monday found half of parents are eager to get their kids ... |
| Oct 11, 2021 | Meet BC's 12th $1B+ business in 10 months | Good morning everyone. Hurry. Make sure you read this email right away. Don’t leave it until later. Trust me. Once you’ve finished your second family-or-Friendsgiving meal of the weekend and the food-coma starts to hit, you will not — I rep... |
| Sep 12, 2021 | BC’s Tesla of buildings is worth over a billion | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning! Tomorrow, September 13 at 12:00pm PST, we’re co-hosting a Twitter Spaces event with the Council of Canadian Innovators where we’ll explore urgent questions on innovation policy ahead of the federal election.
You can set up a r... |
| Sep 5, 2021 | And then there were 10... | Happy Long Weekend—AKA Billions is back weekend. What’s that? You’ve never seen it? You’ve never heard of the critically-acclaimed Showtime series? Well then, you’re welcome.
With that out of the way, I’d like to say hello to the new subscr... |
| Aug 22, 2021 | 👀 6 startups to watch | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and welcome to the new subscribers reading this Sunday—the fourth Sunday, but somehow, not the last of August.
I invite you to stay connected with us all week on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. Better yet, join us for coffee (... |
| Aug 15, 2021 | 🥇📚 Someone call Guinness | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and welcome to the new subscribers reading this Sunday. I invite you to stay connected with us all week on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. Better yet, join us for coffee (in person) to chat all things Vancouver tech this Tuesd... |
| Aug 13, 2021 | FULL ATLANTIC COVERAGE: Federal election 2021 results, reaction
| Jordan floundering, Liberals losing ground in Nova Scotia in early vote count
The Liberal domination of Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada appeared to be losing traction as results of the federal election rolled in Monday night.
The Liberals, ... |
| Aug 11, 2021 | Fast Five: Is InBC, the $500 million taxpayer-funded investment fund, a startup? | In the Fall of 2021, the province teased details of InBC, a $500 million Strategic Investment Fund with a mandate “to help promising companies grow, while generating returns that benefit all British Columbians.” Then in April of this year, ... |
| Aug 8, 2021 | Federal funding at the forefront | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and welcome to the new subscribers reading this Sunday.
As the day’s fourth cup of coffee courses through my veins—a 5:00am emotional roller coaster courtesy of the Canadian Women’s National Soccer Team will do that to ya—I inv... |
| Jul 7, 2021 | After four quiet years, condo presale buyers return to Downtown Vancouver - Reliance Properties | Highlights:
-Downtown had zero successful presale launches in 4 years
-Presale supply currently limited to one project
-Burrard Place’s homes modeled after Europe - first-ever in downtown
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 07, 2021 (GLOBE NE... |
| May 10, 2021 | “It makes so much sense for Vancouver.” - Vancouver City Councillor Sarah Kirby-Yung on Formula E bid | It’s hard to picture a more scenic venue for auto racing than False Creek. Sure, the fine people of Monte Carlo would like a word but a backdrop combining downtown Vancouver with the North Shore mountains is certainly hard to beat.
These vi... |
| Apr 29, 2021 | “Two hammers looking for a nail” secure $2 billion, a timeline of Clio | The fresh-faced founders on October 1, 2008
The road to Unicorn Country is long and winding. There are jaw-dropping peaks and sweeping valleys. Sections where you could be in cruise control are paired with many white-knuckle S curves. For t... |
| Apr 22, 2021 | 15 Vancouver cleantech stories you may have missed this year | The BC cleantech sector is one of the fastest-growing segments of BC’s economy, as it drives innovation, employment, and investment that contributes to a more sustainable world.
The sector is made up of nearly 300 companies that employ more... |
| Apr 11, 2021 | Tech that gives everyone a chance to invest in real estate? | The Sunday Briefing | Good afternoon everyone. Congratulations, you’ve officially made it 100 days in to 2021. Among many compelling stories this week, I’m particularly excited about three. There are 12 Vancouver venture capital firms that have well-over $2 bill... |
| Apr 4, 2021 | How a tech HR leader keeps teams motivated through crises | The Sunday Briefing | Happy Easter and welcome to our new subscribers. Stay engaged this week by connecting with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and the Vancouver Tech club on the Clubhouse app.
If you’re not already on Clubhouse (iOS only) but want to be, please get in... |
| Mar 21, 2021 | Throwing Out The VC Rule Book | The Sunday Briefing | Good afternoon and welcome to the hundreds of new Vancouver Tech Journal subscribers reading this Sunday. To stay engaged all week, make sure you connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and the new Vancouver Tech club on the Clubhouse app.
If ... |
| Mar 14, 2021 | Unbounce's translator in chief | Good afternoon and welcome to the hundreds of new Vancouver Tech Journal subscribers reading this Sunday. To stay engaged all week, make sure you connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and the new Vancouver Tech club on the Clubhouse app. If ... |
| Mar 7, 2021 | Seed and 'Series Eh' | The Sunday Briefing | Good afternoon and welcome to the hundreds of new Vancouver Tech Journal subscribers reading this week. Today’s Sunday Briefing is 2,022 words, a 6 + ¾-minute read. Enjoy!
-William (@notionport)
📰 The Front PageDooly, a Vancouver startup th... |
| Feb 28, 2021 | Three comma club | Good afternoon and welcome to the new Vancouver Tech Journal subscribers reading this week. Today’s Sunday Briefing, February’s last (!), is 1,828 words, a 6-minute read. Enjoy.
-William (@notionport)
🌐 Galvanize, a Vancouver company that s... |
| Feb 21, 2021 | $100M To Boast About | The Sunday Briefing | Good afternoon, and welcome to the hundreds of new Vancouver Tech Journal subscribers reading this week. Today’s Sunday Briefing is just around 1,700 words, a 6-minute read. Enjoy.
-William (@notionport)
💰 Boast.ai, a financing platform tha... |
| Feb 3, 2021 | Community health centers can help stamp out Covid-19 | “If you are having difficulty breathing, go to an emergency room or call 911.”
This previously routine advisory made its last appearance in a Dec. 18 news release by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, announcing that county... |
| Jan 31, 2021 | Sunday Briefing | #123 | In a recent op/ed, Pender Ventures managing partner Maria Pacella asks, “What happens when the industry with the greatest potential for innovation doesn’t reflect the world it’s innovating for?”Welcome to the Vancouver Tech Journal’s Sunday... |
| Jan 24, 2021 | Sunday Briefing | #122 | Podcasting is a $9B industry expected to grow 30% over the next seven years.Welcome to the Vancouver Tech Journal’s Sunday Briefing, the city’s most comprehensive digest of local tech stories and insights.
This week, explore the smartest lo... |
| Jan 17, 2021 | Huawei Vs Google Just Got Real—New Update To Beat Android Confirmed | Huawei is about to begin a critical period that will define its future. The last two years of battles and blacklists have taken it to the brink. Its strategy to lead the market for 5G networks is in tatters, while Google-less smartphone sal... |
| Jan 14, 2021 | Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, who is under house arrest, is accused of breaching COVID-19 rules by booking out a Vancouver restaurant for Christmas | Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou. Don MacKinnon/AFP via Getty Images
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, who is accused of fraud, may have violated COVID-19 guidelines while under house arrest, a Canadian court heard Tuesday.
According to the South China Morni... |
| Jan 13, 2021 | Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, who is under house arrest, is accused of breaching COVID-19 rules by booking out a Vancouver restaurant for Christmas | Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, who is accused of fraud, may have violated COVID-19 guidelines while under house arrest, a Canadian court heard Tuesday.
According to the South China Morning Post, Meng booked out a restaurant for 14 people at Chris... |
| Jan 8, 2021 | From Swift to Sparkcentral, a timeline of Hootsuite's acquisitions | Hootsuite’s new CEO, Tom Keiser
To kick off 2021, Hootsuite, the Vancouver-founded social media management firm, announced the acquisition of Sparkcentral, a messaging app-focused customer engagement platform that offers virtual agents and ... |
| Nov 29, 2020 | Sunday Briefing | #119 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. It is written by William Johnson, an independent writer, communications advisor, and consultant based in Vanc... |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Sunday Briefing | #118 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. It is written by William Johnson, an independent writer, communications advisor, and consultant based in Vanc... |
| Oct 4, 2020 | Sunday Briefing | #115 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. It is written by William Johnson, an independent writer, communications advisor, and consultant based in Vanc... |
| Aug 23, 2020 | Sunday Briefing | #112 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
“Even in the COVID environment, B.C.’s tech companies continue to create ... |
| Aug 9, 2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #111 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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I (William) joined CSuite Content as a Senior Editorial... |
| Jul 28, 2020 | The hype, haplessness and hope of haptics in the COVID-19 era | Devon Powers Contributor
Devon Powers is an associate professor of advertising at Temple University and the author of "On Trend: The Business of Forecasting the Future."
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David Parisi is an associate profes... |
| Jul 21, 2020 | 15 Black Travel Writers To Read Now | Nina Reeder and her daughter out at sea in Capri, ItalyNina Reeder |
| Jun 22, 2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #107 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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Vistara Capital's head of marketing shares three practical job hu... |
| Jun 7, 2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #105 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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6 ways to view Shopify's "digital by default" declarat... |
| May 26, 2020 | Cannabis Legalization Is Key To Economic Recovery, Much Like Ending Alcohol Prohibition Helped Us Out Of The Great Depression | Our nation is in the midst of the greatest crisis in generations, with the Covid-19 pandemic impacting Americans’ physical and emotional well-being, while plummeting the nation’s economy into the worst economic downturn in our lifetimes. As... |
| May 24, 2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #103 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
My latest piece of writing is a profile of Rich Osborn, the managing part... |
| Apr 26, 2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #99 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
Food-X Technologies, a SaaS startup, has received $250,000 from the Digit... |
| Mar 19, 2020 | Coronavirus Cancellation Tracker: More Than 83 Million Affected After Events Cancelled Or Rescheduled | Last updated April 22, 12:49 p.m. |
| Mar 2, 2020 | 27 Things Coronavirus Is Changing Right Now | A month or two ago, this would have been almost unimaginable. |
| Feb 23, 2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #93 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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Vancouver-based Semios, which has developed a platform for cr... |
| Feb 18, 2020 | The head of Lyft in Canada reveals the huge opportunity that the last big city to embrace ride-hailing represents | Advertisement
Vancouver was the last major North American city to lack ride-hailing until 2020.
Now, Uber, Lyft and other competitors are scaling up to win over drivers and riders in Canada's third-largest city.
In an interview, Lyft's Cana... |
| Jan 26, 2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #90 | The Vancouver Tech Journal spotlights the city's most important technology news and business stories. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
Mastercard unveiled its new Intelligence and Cyber Centre in Vancouver, a $510 million investment. The... |
| Jan 13, 2020 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #88 | The Vancouver Tech Journal spotlights the city's most important technology news and business stories. This is the Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.NEWS
Vancouver’s Aspect Biosystems, a biotechnology company that conducts 3D bioprinting of human tissu... |
| Jan 5, 2020 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #87 | The Vancouver Tech Journal spotlights the city's most important technology news and business stories. This is the Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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Vancouver’s go-to digital skills training hub, BrainStation, announced $70,000 in scholarships fo... |
| Dec 8, 2019 | The Sunday Briefing | #85 | The Vancouver Tech Journal spotlights the city's most important technology news and business stories. This is the Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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Vancouver’s Open Ocean Robotics, a startup that makes solar-powered drones that gather environmen... |
| Dec 1, 2019 | The Sunday Briefing | #84 | The Vancouver Tech Journal spotlights the city's most important technology news and business stories. This is the Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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Amazon is leasing 1.1 million square feet of space—an entire city block with two office towers—wh... |
| Nov 11, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #82 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing, let’s take a moment to consider how we can have an everlasting impact on the face of men’s health.
Friends, its Movember, the month when men and women across the globe join together to raise awareness and fun... |
| Nov 4, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #81 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing, read about Vancouver real estate and tech growth in the New York Times; how Vancouver small businesses are struggling to find cybersecurity talent; Lyft’s very Vancouver-themed advertising campaign; and 20 ot... |
| Oct 27, 2019 | Meet Google, Facebook, and other giants at the VR/AR Global Summit in Vancouver | The facts are clear: With over 230 companies active in VR/AR, Vancouver is the 2nd largest immersive ecosystem in the world. And this Friday and Saturday (Nov 1-2), this massive community of technologists and artists will be on full display... |
| Oct 20, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #79 | After a Thanksgiving break, the Vancouver Tech Journal is back. In this week’s Sunday Briefing, read about the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade’s new CEO; BBTV’s CEO ideas for empowering female entrepreneurs; which former Canadian PM joined... |
| Oct 6, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #78 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing, read about why one startup founder moved his company to Vancouver from Silicon Valley; AI companies think the feds need to invest in the local sector; a new Quantum Algorithms Institute in Surrey; a local inv... |
| Sep 29, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #77 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing, read about why Article’s CEO started his company; the top 31 Vancouver businesses according to the Globe and Mail; Uber’s plans to leverage Translink’s bus and train data; a mystery surrounding a millionaire ... |
| Sep 22, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #76 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing, read why Terramera’s CEO says farming is the next hot tech career, a local investors tips for how we can spot bogus startups, Finger Food’s $3.5M expansion news, and details on SFU’s Data for Good initiative.... |
| Sep 9, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #74 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing: 8 global tech giants in Vancouver, including Salesforce and Oracle, that we should be talking about; B.C.’s top CTOs; the largest venture-capital investment for a Canadian company since 2000; a CEO’s entrepre... |
| Aug 25, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #73 | Digital marketing platform Unbounce, which started in Gastown with just 6 people in 2009, now employs 182 people across two offices, in Vancouver and Berlin, and counts 15,000 customers worldwide, including The New York Times, Hootsuite, an... |
| Aug 12, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #72 | The University of Toronto’s Impact Centre has updated its 2019 Narwhal List, a report that highlights Canada’s fastest scaling private tech companies.
The Narwhal List ranks financially attractive firms by financial velocity. This metric is... |
| Jul 19, 2019 | Рынок искусственного мяса к 2030 году вырастет до $85 млрд | Фото: iStock
Швейцарский финансовый холдинг UBS прогнозирует, что через 10 лет рынок продуктов, выращенных в лабораторных условиях, станет коммерчески жизнеспособным и будет признан полноценной частью сельского хозяйства. В США этот сегмент... |
| Jun 24, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #67 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing: Slack is a public company worth nearly $20B; Procurify just raised $20M; a local health tech startup is getting coverage in TechCrunch; and McDonald’s Green Concept Restaurant is coming to town. Enjoy.
A Bell... |
| Jun 9, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #65 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing: Why Vancouver’s mayor is trying to ban bitcoin ATMs; the focus of RBC’s new AI lab; a company that built the electric Porsche that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett were recently driving; and why one Vancouver en... |
| Jun 4, 2019 | AI-powered Damon Motorcycles raises $2.5 million Seed round | Vancouver-based Damon Motorcycles, a company that creates safety innovations for motorcycles using sensor fusion, robotics, and AI technology, has raised a $2.5 million Seed round from Round 13 Capital, Techstars, Extreme Venture Partners, ... |
| May 31, 2019 | Tap into value with a reverse mortgage | The value of residential real estate in many parts of Canada has rocketed in recent years leaving some long-time homeowners with significant equity in houses they bought when prices were substantially lower.
Homeowners (55-plus) can tap int... |
| May 29, 2019 | CEO Who Sold Encrypted Phones to the Sinaloa Cartel Sentenced to Nine Years | The CEO of a company that provided encrypted phones to criminal organizations including the Sinaloa Cartel was sentenced to nine years imprisonment in a San Diego courtroom Tuesday.
Vincent Ramos, a 41-year-old Canadian man from Richmond, B... |
| May 26, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #64 | In this week's Sunday Briefing, learn about UBC and Huawei's precarious position, Shahrzad Rafati's new job, why B.C.'s ridesharing debate continues to rage on, and where $2.5B in early-stage company financing could come from.
Trailblazer: ... |
| Feb 22, 2019 | Investigating the Higbee & Associates Copyright Trolling Operation | Yesterday, we wrote about web developer Daniel Quinn’s harrowing experience receiving a $20,000 payment demand from copyright troll Higbee & Associaties. That post ended with Quinn explaining how he found lawyer Carolyn Homer to represe... |
| Feb 6, 2019 | SinoTech: Department of Justice Unseals Two Indictments Against Huawei | On Jan. 28, the U.S. Department of Justice unveiled two sweeping indictments against Huawei. At a press conference, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker first discussed the 10-count indictment unsealed in the Western District of Washing... |
| Jan 20, 2019 | Canada’s Telus says partner Huawei is ‘reliable’: reports | The US-China tension over Huawei is leaving telecommunications companies around the world at a crossroad, but one spoke out last week. Telus, one of Canada’s largest phone companies showed support for its Chinese partner despite a global ba... |
| Oct 31, 2018 | Sea lice infestation closed Cermaq Canada salmon farm; Report claims wild salmon impacted | A sea lice infestation at Cermaq Canada’s Fortune Channel salmon farm caused the farm to be closed this past summer.
The exact number of salmon that were euthanized was not disclosed, but according to Johnson, the company typically has “sev... |
| Jul 18, 2018 | Obtained Documents Show The DEA Sold Compromised Phones To Suspected Drug Dealers | Human Rights Watch — which delivered info on law enforcement’s “parallel construction” habit earlier this year — is back with a bombshell. Court documents obtained by the group show the DEA sold compromised devices to drug dealers during an... |
| Mar 9, 2018 | DGB Grab Bag: Chicago Hopeless, Stone-Faced Karlsson, and Math—How Does it Work? | Three Stars of Comedy
The third star: The curling faceoff – This was a pretty funny way to open this week's outdoor game.
Slightly less funny: A few hours later when the curlers got drunk and threw the rock into the power generator.
The sec... |
