A New Era of Data Crunching
Here’s a bit of a mind-blowing fact: 90 percent of the world’s total data has been created in the past two years. According to Spacelift.io, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day are generated—some...
Travel Turmoil in a Changing World
While some people like a staycation, most of us get excited about experiencing a place that’s outside our everyday routine. Still, tourism in North America has seen its share of ups and downs. Think...
Helping Hybrid Teams Deliver
Going through and coming out of the COVID pandemic changed us in many ways—one of the biggest was remote work. Before 2019, for most of us, being asked to go into an office five days a week would...
Serenity Lane
The statistics are overwhelming: more than one in every six American adults and teens had a substance use disorder in 2023, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The annual survey...
Tourism Feeling the Burn
Tourism is still riding the wave of people’s pent-up need to travel that intensified over the course of the pandemic. Many of us are now making it a point to take those trips that we had to put off....
How Smartphones Can Safeguard Your Health
While many of us have concerns about our devices collecting information about us, the data collected by the smartphone in your pocket could be used to spot medical and psychological problems before...
Breaking through the Mental Health Stigma in the Workplace
Work can be stressful in any industry, whether your team is tackling a new project, changing to accommodate new clients or new management, scrambling under tight deadlines, or sometimes, just going...
Our New Best Friend for Life – And Health
We’re at the tipping point of a health crisis. Not because there haven’t been incredible advances in prevention and treatment, but because the risk of so many ailments hugely increases as people...
Davey Textile Solutions
First responders at a traffic accident at night not only have to act quickly to save lives, they also face the danger of oncoming cars while they do it. That’s why shiny strips of 3M Scotchlite...
GreenStep
When Angela Nagy was 18, she was hired to coordinate grants to build an interpretive greenway trail along Mission Creek in Kelowna, British Columbia, about four and a half hours northeast of...
The Comeback on the High Seas
Ready to see sunsets and starry skies from your floating oasis on the water? Cruising vacations are back. British business mogul Richard Branson has launched his adults-only Virgin Voyages line with...
City of Mission, B.C.
As the familiar real estate saying goes: location, location, location. The City of Mission, British Columbia has a prime location and a lot to offer businesses and individuals looking for natural...
Changing Consumer Trends
We’ve been through a lot. COVID took pretty much everything we’d taken as normal for decades and turned it all on its ear in little more than a couple of months – and kept things that way for two...
Women Driving Economic Recovery
Is a “she-covery” possible as we bounce back from COVID-related job and economic losses? In a popular New York Times article, C. Nicole Mason, president and chief executive of the Institute for...
The Shifting Workplace
For a lot of us, the pandemic has shown that there are more important things in life than climbing the corporate ladder and bringing home big dollars. The uncertainties and challenges of lockdowns...
Scaling for Success
In this month, we look at the history, the contributions and the achievements of the Black community in North America. Getting ahead in business can be an uphill battle at the best of times, and...
Chasing Talent in a Vibrant New Economy
What happens when growing demand meets shrinking workforce? This has been the reality for a number of sectors, including manufacturing – even in a pandemic. With the workforce largely approaching...
How Work-From-Home Employees Get More Done
Office work is so 2019. The global pandemic has forever changed how we live and how we work, signaling the end of office centricity as companies shift to a permanent work-from-home culture....
The Greater San Marcos Partnership
Got an innovative organization? These San Marcos, Texas ingredients will set it up for growth: strategic location, skilled workforce, new recruit pipeline, affordable living amongst beautiful...
City of St. Thomas, ON
Over the past year, we’ve seen a lot of headlines about doom and gloom through COVID-19, but there are some good news stories. No question, the pandemic has been a challenging time for mental...
How Tech-Driven is Your Office?
Check out any high production science fiction movie and you can always tell that it’s set in the future – not because of how people are dressed or how they talk, but because of all those futuristic...
How Healthy and Safe is Your Food?
You’ve sanitized your hands and got your mask on, but what’s going through your mind as you roll your grocery cart along the produce displays and the refrigerated meat selections? Are you thinking,...
Battery Solutions
In the past, batteries ended up in landfills or banished to boxes in the basement and forgotten. But today, as a new awareness has revealed the environmental fallout of used batteries, recycling has...
Kendrick, Inc.
Going through COVID has been a test of will for businesses across the country. For Kendrick, Inc. in particular, it’s reinforced the importance of being part of the community and helping people out....
The Rise of Localization
What do the automobile and meat-packing plants have in common? The answer: Henry Ford. In 1913, Henry Ford, inspired by continuous-flow production flour mills and canneries, as well as Chicago’s...