January 28 is Data Privacy Day – yes, almost as fascinating to some as International Watching Paint Dry Day but, with data and identity theft or loss being a high risk for all organizations and all people, it pays to be mindful about how you handle and manage information.
Innovation fosters a thriving middle class and opens the country to new economic, social and environmental possibilities. It creates good jobs and improves the quality of life of all Canadians. With support from the Government of Canada, Mariner Partners, Inc. is developing an innovative new solution to address a gap in the rapidly changing communications industry.
Their employees don’t wear jackets that sport company logos. They don’t ship products in trucks or containers that bear the company name or have signs on buildings named after them. They work in relative obscurity but have a large impact nonetheless. They’re the province’s IT companies that employ more than 4,500 people provincewide.
The turn of the year is always a reflective time of year- a time to think about who you are and who you want to be. What you stand for and what kind of an impact you want to make.
A Canadian-made wellness platform is helping students at the University of Alberta become more aware of and engaged in their own mental health.
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From October 17th-19th at Startup Canada Day on the Hill, nearly 2,000 entrepreneurs,innovators, Industry Leaders, Startup Canada Community Leaders, and government decision-makers convened in Ottawa to apply an entrepreneurial lens to policy and raise the bar for Canada as a globally competitive innovation nation.
The University of Miami Counseling Center announced Oct. 26 that they will be offering a new online service for students 一 WellTrack, an interactive self-help and therapy app that will allow students to receive counseling on the go.
Smart Skin Technologies, award-winning manufacturer of pressure sensing container devices and analytics used by global brands in beverage, food production and pharmaceutical industries, recently closed a Canadian $3.1 million strategic investment led by SCHOTT AG.
When William Zhou founded his startup, Chalk, in 2012, he made a classic founder’s mistake. “I decided, ‘let’s build some product,’ because that’s all I knew,” he says.