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Clear skies: Direct air capture and Canada’s advantage

Inside a new carbon-removal tech startup

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The billion-dollar question: Where are all the Canadian biotech unicorns?

Biotech in Canada is admired in the lab but largely overlooked in capital markets

How Digital Twins are Solving Real World Problems

From a crippled spacecraft to city streets, the technology that mirrors the physical world is remaking how we build, move, and plan.

Trust but verify: The battle to fix the crisis of credibility

Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales’ latest book, Seven Rules of Trust, focuses on the global crisis of credibility and knowledge. Both are in short…

Home-field advantage: How to scale Canadian sport tech

Combining data, infrastructure, and talent development could drive a long-term, nation-building sport tech strategy

Quantum Computing. Explained.

What you need to know about this rapidly emerging field that can solve problems faster than a supercomputer

Turning Disruption into Momentum: Manulife’s AI Flywheel

How a hands-on executive session turned AI from a niche experiment into a CEO-level agenda item

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Disruptors Podcast

Disruptors, hosted by John Stackhouse, Senior Vice-President, Office of the CEO, is our flagship podcast that explores how technology and innovation is reshaping the economy.

Permission to Fail: A case for youth entrepreneurship

Ronnen Harary, co-founder of Spin Master, on why your 20s offer a unique entrepreneurial advantage and how AI is creating white space for agile…

Digital Refineries: Data centres as Alberta’s new resource

Alberta’s tech minister Nate Glubish on attracting AI data centres without subsidies, protecting the grid and turning natural gas into intelligence.

Canada’s Biotech Challenge

Canadian medical research has produced breakthrough after breakthrough. But too often, the companies behind the science scale elsewhere.

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