How this Stanford case writing fellow is trying to bring attention to the world-beating Canadian companies who are making a mark despite the widespread belief that leaving for the U.S. is the key to business success. www.begiant.ca/stories/peop...

Update: The Canadian 911 AI startup Hyper recently covered by Be Giant was acquired by Motorola Solutions this week. Hyper says it can speed up response and help save lives using its AI voice agent as a filter to help dispatchers address real emergencies more quickly www.begiant.ca/stories/peop...

So much fun to work on this story with @greglocke.com for @be-giant.bsky.social. And thrilled to see a new publication in Canada that writes about exciting things happening from coast to coast to coast.

Our oceans are the world's biggest carbon sinks, but absorbing CO2 is making them more acidic. Two Nova Scotia startups, Planetary Technologies and CarbonRun, are scaling "ocean alkalinity enhancement" to fix this problem. Full story by @theturner.bsky.social: www.begiant.ca/stories/idea...

In Newfoundland, a patient might travel nine hours to St. John’s just to have a cast made for a bolus. But PolyUnity has a futuristic solution that’s eliminating travel time and solving major supply chain issues: www.begiant.ca/stories/plac...

Could drones and AI-directed weed sprayers be the future of agriculture? A family-owned farm in Manitoba has become the testing ground for new farming tech. Read the full story by @jokinen.bsky.social https://www.begiant.ca/stories/places/rutherford-farms-manitoba-agriculture-ai

This year’s Socratica Symposium in Kitchener, Ont., was “equal parts tech expo, art gallery, arcade, nightclub and world’s fair, if said fair were organized by a bunch of hyper-online Gen Z geniuses who happen to be best friends." Read the full story: https://bit.ly/4tBiKqZ

Across Canada, 911 lines are strained and wait times can be long. But a Canadian startup says it can speed up response times and help save lives using its AI voice agent to help dispatchers address real emergencies more quickly. Read our deep dive: https://bit.ly/4dZpSbN

Canadian astronauts will soon blast off from Canso, N.S. This small coastal town is the site of an under-construction spaceport where the country's space ambitions will literally take flight. Here's why that's crucial for national security, climate resiliency and the economy.

For the newly launched Canadian publication @be-giant.bsky.social, I interviewed Chris Hadfield about Artemis II and the anniversary of his historic spacewalk: www.begiant.ca/stories/peop...

Twenty-five years after his own space milestone, former astronaut @cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social says Jeremy Hansen’s historic trip around the moon on Artemis II is a “wonderful measure of Canada.” Read the full interview: https://bit.ly/4c4C8p4

Today, we’re launching Be Giant to report on the ideas that may offer solutions to Canada’s biggest challenges. A non-profit, non-partisan media outlet, we'll work with some of Canada's best journalists to bring our stories to life: https://www.begiant.ca