After the 2008 crash tightened lending for businesses, David Gens founded his fintech to help them secure the funding they needed to grow ...

Industrial-scale sustainable construction offers Canada a way to ease housing shortages while protecting the planet, says ...

David Gens is the Founder and CEO of Merchant Growth, a Canadian digital financing and growth solution for small businesses. Since founding the company in 2009, it has become one of Canada’s largest ...

Canadians look forward to retirement as a time when they can spend their days as they wish—visiting loved ones and friends, pursuing lifelong interests, perhaps taking on a part-time job or beginning ...

In November of 2021, Michael Mort’s doctor in Victoria retired without finding anyone to take over his practice. Michael, 82, has complex medical needs and requires nine prescriptions to manage his ...

In the past year, businesses have had to navigate a landscape marked by whiplash-inducing technological advancements, undeniably urgent evidence of climate change and ever-shifting consumer values ...

Scientists at New School Foods have developed technology that can be used to create a plant-based salmon almost indistinguishable from real salmon Salmon consumption is at an all-time high, but ...

You don’t notice what’s missing at first. Toronto’s TIFF Lightbox—that unassuming glass grid, dwarfed by the enormous monolithic condo protruding from the top of it—still looks the same. Inside the ...

What makes an innovative company today? This question inspired a meeting between CB and the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship (BII+E), an independent, non-partisan policy ...

When Natan Obed was a teenager, he played on a high school hockey team called the Indians. His school was located next to a reservation in rural Maine, but almost none of its students were Indigenous.

Non-alcoholic craft cocktails are having a moment. By 2024, the consumption of low- or zero-alcohol distilled spirits is projected to increase by 31 per cent, according to an industry study conducted ...

In our Workspace series, CB is featuring interesting, smart-designed and one-of-a-kind spaces across Canada. From innovative home offices to out-of-the-box co-working spaces to unconventional ...