Tech & Science
Life Story: When Benson Sung was three years old, his mom brought him to Richmond from what was becoming an increasingly unstable situation in Taiwan. Starting from Grade 10, Sung picked up all kinds of jobs to support his mom...
Life Story: Growing up in Tehran, Arya Rashtchian played for the Iranian capital’s professional basketball team. In high school, hoping to leave his conservative homeland, he told his father he wanted to move to Canada. “He was like, Yeah, all...
Life Story: Jake McGregor’s career path feels old school—the type of trail that was blazed 50 years ago. You know the drill: university standout gets a job at a resources company right out of school and rises to the top...
Life Story: Not getting accepted to architecture school turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Evan McDougall. Winnipeg-born McDougall, who grew up in Langley and Surrey, attended Carleton University, where he earned a bachelor of industrial design. He...
Life Story: Eva Li was raised in Hong Kong until the age of 16, when she left for Chilliwack and eventually UBC and SFU, where she built community through a science degree. She ended up spending just under four years...
Life Story: Taline Ainein studied finance and human resources at Sauder, but by the time she graduated in 2016, she realized that a career in finance just wasn’t for her. “I was never excited by the job descriptions or by people...
Blockchain is the new art gallery. Just ask Vancouver’s WestCoastNFT, which has teamed up with the Hong Kong-based MetaArt Club, holder of nearly 10,000 NFT works by 35 digital artists. Buyers gain membership to the Metaverse Museum, and those with...
Climbing out of the claws of the pandemic wasn't an easy feat. The push and pull of supply chain issues and inflation impacted businesses throughout B.C. in 2021, but even with ground lost in 2020, the economy was able to...
It wasn’t long ago that it was generally accepted that Josh Blair was going to eventually take over the reins of the Telus kingdom from longtime CEO Darren Entwistle. Instead, the former Telus group president left in December 2019 after...
Exactly how does a business thrive in the face of an industry-wide crisis? If you ask Clio’s CEO and co-founder Jack Newton, it’s the legaltech company’s focus on long-term growth and customer success that earned it centaur status in the face...