Two brothers behind the successful SkipTheDishes food delivery app are looking to build another success in an entirely new space: subscription home furniture. Saskatoon-based Pivot Furniture allows customers to subscribe monthly to everything from couches to coffee tables to lamps and wine racks, and then return the items when they’re no longer wanted or needed.
Clear Lake Wineries, a Toronto-based wine exporter, had seen its sales to China rise steadily – until the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in December. Orders suddenly dwindled, especially from larger, high-profile restaurant and hotel accounts. Clear Lake’s agent on the ground told company president Mary Whittle that some buyers were reluctant to have Canadian products on their wine lists while tensions were high, for fear of offending customers.
Ontario plans to tap Jim Balsillie to lead a panel of experts to scrutinize the effectiveness of provincially funded institutions that commercialize innovations, including universities and incubators.The Wattpad social media platform for storytellers, authors and writers is forming a “first-look” relationship with Sony Pictures Television, one of the world’s biggest producers of TV programming.
The prime minister was in Kitchener on Tuesday morning, where he made a major announcement pledging millions to a local innovation hub. Justin Trudeau announced the government would be investing $52.4 million in three hubs for a new program called the Scale-Up Platform, designed to help Ontario start-up companies grow.After launching his cannabis startup Houseplant, Seth Rogen will take the stage at Collision, Toronto’s tech conference to talk the cannabis business.Amazon.
On Nov. 14, 2018, Martin Braganza, a Halifax-based account manager at the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency , typed up a briefing note as requested by the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development’s office in Ottawa.Canadians who are interested in learning to code but are short on cash can now trade a stake in their future earnings for an education.