Mumbai – India may be one of the world’s warmest cultures, but when it comes to talking business, overflowing hospitality can quickly give way to sharp questions.
Read More
Mumbai – Day 2 of the Information Technologies Association of Canada-led trade mission to India included a personal introduction to one of the nation’s most prolific and socially minded global companies.
Read More
Tech 4 Kids Inc. was only a month old when the 2008 financial crisis touched off in the United States, drastically changing the market for the young, Toronto-based toy company. Many small and mid-sized retailers in North America disappeared, leaving a consolidated market dominated by large players.
Read More
There is no word for “tomato” in the Chinese language – one of the root words of fān qié means “originating somewhere else” – nor are tomatoes part of the traditional Chinese diet.
Read More
As part of the Canada’s Clean50 report, published in the October 21 Globe and Mail, we asked recent Clean50 honourees what it takes to become a sustainability leader. Here are some answers:
Read More
How do you study the glue that holds the universe together? Well, for one thing, you’ve got to stick with it, according George Lolos and Zisis Papandreou, physics professors at the University of Regina and lead researchers of GlueX, and you need to engage in international collaboration.
Read More
While the modest store-front in a small industrial park in Burnaby, British Columbia, doesn’t exactly match the expectations that come with a name like “General Fusion,” the array of hardware – and software – behind the façade looks impressive.
Read More
In 1991, when the first Canadian diamond mine was discovered just 120 miles south of the Arctic Circle in Lac De Gras, it seemed inconceivable that just 15 years later Canada would be one of the world’s most influential diamond producers. By 2006, Canada had three world-class diamond mines in production and was ranked the world’s third largest diamond-producing nation by value.
Read More
With global demand rising and supply sources flattening, here are three new Canadian diamond mine projects worth paying attention to.
Read More
What began as an idea scribbled on the back of a restaurant napkin in 2011 has developed into a sought-after award for sustainable development in Canada that is changing and inspiring leadership across the sector.
Read More
Pulse Energy co-founder and CEO David Helliwell has a mission to help businesses around the world become more energy efficient.
Read More
Helping China address its pollution problems provides a significant opportunity for Canadian cleantech companies, says Denis L’Heureux, Export Development Canada’s (EDC) Shanghai-based chief representative in China.
Read More
The United States remains firmly entrenched as Canada’s major trading partner, but China, now in second place, represents a significant opportunity to diversify trade and open new markets in Asia’s leading economy, says HSBC Bank Canada executive vice president and head of commercial banking Linda Seymour.
Read More
Dr. Sarah Dickson, P.Eng., has a dream: that every human being on the planet has access to clean water. As the program director for Water Without Borders, the associate professor and associate chair in civil engineering at McMaster University has a deep understanding of the scope and complexity of the problem matched by a passion for developing holistic solutions.
Read More
Building a new light rail transit (LRT) line is no small task – particularly when it’s going right through the middle of a thriving city and you must minimize disruption to the local population.
Read More
Amber Mitchell was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 12, and for many years she was the only person in her school with the disease. Diabetes was still uncommon in the small Manitoba town in which she was raised, and she estimates that there weren’t more than a handful of people with diabetes in the entire region.
Read More
In September, Danish-based pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk collaborated with the Royal Danish Consulate General and the Canadian Diabetes Association to host Innovation in Diabetes Care: 90 Years and Beyond.
Read More
Diabetes is a stealthy (often invisible) disease that, together with prediabetes, now affects about more than 30 per cent of Canadians.
Read More
The catastrophic Ebola outbreak in Africa and the ensuing race for a vaccine is an alarming reminder of our dependence on pharmaceutical innovation.
Read More
Starting a family is the dream of many Canadians, and countless medical advances have improved the chances for healthy pregnancies. Yet risks remain, and among those who are more likely to face challenges are expectant mothers with type 1 diabetes (T1D), an autoimmune disease that makes individuals insulin-dependent for life.
Read More