Rushmila Rahman

The Canadian food industry is pro-innovation. But even though it’s known to explore new opportunities with technology, processing and manufacturing and sustainable agriculture, food security remains a major problem across the country. To that end, national member-based organization Canadian Food...

When Vivian Lam was 36 weeks pregnant with her first child, she got a red rash around her baby bump. It flared up after she scratched it, leaving her with angry, itchy spots all over her body. “After a couple...

After having her second baby, Ireland native Lisa Hawthorne experienced a loss of self-identity. “I had been pregnant or breastfeeding or had a tiny person attached to me for four years,” she says. “I was trying to go back into the...

Since landscape painter Meg O’Hara won our 30 Under 30 award in 2021, the artist’s business has catapulted. She has visited three different continents, been on two icebreaker ships, won her first Canadian Art Council grant and finalized five upcoming expeditions...

Anjali Menon has always been ambitious. In Grade 7, she went to a sustainability conference where she was told that the world would end in 20 years. “I was like, No, this needs to change,” she remembers. “So in elementary school...

“I don’t remember ever learning about mental health in elementary or high school,” says Carissa Konesky, who grew up in Burnaby struggling with anxiety and body image issues. Having been involved with Girl Guides since she was five, Konesky wishes she...

When Elaine Alec was young, her mom would always make comments and think out loud. “We’d drive by this whole field of baby’s breath and my mom would say something like, ‘I bet if you gathered all that baby’s breath and...

For a long time, Selena Woo pretended she wasn’t Chinese. Even though she was sent to Chinese school every Saturday, she wouldn’t practice it, she wouldn’t respond to her parents in the language, and when she left home to move...

Shama Gupta believes that her career was driven by destiny. Back in Delhi, she was in the business of exporting stone. She often travelled for work, and when her son moved to Vancouver to study at SFU, she didn’t feel safe...

It was learning about the effect of China’s poor air quality on children’s lifespans that sparked Sabina Russell’s interest in cleantech and hydrogen. She started working in the sector soon after graduating from UBC with a degree in mechanical engineering...

On paper, Chris Smith is the ideal candidate to run a fitness chain. Growing up in California, he played baseball and basketball and ran track and field before trying his luck at professional football as a young adult. “Leadership, I...

As a busy real estate lawyer in Vancouver, Vyvyan Rose claims to get hangry a lot. “I literally always skip breakfast, sometimes even lunch if it's a busy day,” she says. “I've been grabbing snacks here and there but it's...