In 2012, I was on maternity leave from my sports marketing job after the birth of my first child, Marnie. She was a sweet, loving baby, and like any new parent, I was always looking for ways to soothe ...
Hayley Mullins is the inventor of the Joeyband, who first developed the device after practicing skin-to-skin care with her then-newborn daughter in 2012. Passionate about making the early days of ...
In the past year, businesses have had to navigate a landscape marked by whiplash-inducing technological advancements, undeniably urgent evidence of climate change and ever-shifting consumer values ...
Scientists at New School Foods have developed technology that can be used to create a plant-based salmon almost indistinguishable from real salmon Salmon consumption is at an all-time high, but ...
In November of 2021, Michael Mort’s doctor in Victoria retired without finding anyone to take over his practice. Michael, 82, has complex medical needs and requires nine prescriptions to manage his ...
When Natan Obed was a teenager, he played on a high school hockey team called the Indians. His school was located next to a reservation in rural Maine, but almost none of its students were Indigenous.
What makes an innovative company today? This question inspired a meeting between CB and the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship (BII+E), an independent, non-partisan policy ...
Over a two-day Mindful Drinking Festival in London in 2019, about 10,000 people passed through an old brewery. They were almost a perfect cross section of society: old and young, women and men, from ...
You don’t notice what’s missing at first. Toronto’s TIFF Lightbox—that unassuming glass grid, dwarfed by the enormous monolithic condo protruding from the top of it—still looks the same. Inside the ...
Many twentysomethings want to spend their nights at a bar. Ivan Zhang wanted to spend his at Google. It was 2018, and his friend Aidan Gomez was working for Google Brain, a research team dedicated to ...
When Maxim Olshevsky stepped inside 909 5th Ave. SW, a 10-storey building in downtown Calgary, he could have sworn he was looking at the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. Frayed cubicle walls loomed ...
For years the vacant Holy Angels Convent in Sydney’s historic North End neighbourhood was a reminder of a community in decline. After 126 years of educating girls, with a focus on arts and music, the ...