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Heart failure rates in northern Ontario are twice the provincial average — in part because of how far patients have to travel for specialized care. @hearthealthydoc is trying to fix that with a portable cardiac clinic she can carry to remote communities: begiant.ca/stories/people…

Update! Canada’s transport minister just announced the Canadian Space act, with the goal of launching us into the final frontier. These 🇨🇦 companies are already working on launching from N.S. and Newfoundland. Catch up with @lisahrabluk's deep dive:  begiant.ca/stories/places…

Canada has become one of MANGO’s – Microsoft, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google DeepMind and OpenAI – favourite places to hunt talent. Here’s how one major Canadian tech recruiter at @ada_cx is fighting back begiant.ca/stories/people…

Invasive carp once packed Hamilton's Cootes Paradise Marsh so densely you could almost walk on them. A simple contraption has since excluded 95%+ of an estimated 70,000 carp — and it's still working. 🐟 begiant.ca/stories/places…

From creating Jolly Jumpers to building an “arm” for satellites, the impact of innovative Canadians extends from the most routine daily functions to the far reaches of space. Read @HistoricaCanada CEO @awilsonsmith’s essay on Canadian breakthroughs: begiant.ca/stories/ideas/…

Remote northern communities rely on expensive flights or vanishing ice roads. The solution? Airships. 🎈 Winnipeg’s BASI is developing 170m-long airships to deliver 30 tonnes of cargo year-round. Read the full breakdown by @kattancock: begiant.ca/stories/ideas/…

Inside Zech Thomas's goal to take on the titans of the hockey equipment industry and sell a pro-level carbon-fibre stick for just $100 at @swifthockeyinc begiant.ca/stories/people…

Meeting with Courtney Shea and Be Giant prompted me to revisit my earliest days in neonatal neurocritical care. It reminded me why this work began, why it continues, and why Canada became home 🇨🇦🔬👩‍🔬👶🧠💗 thanks to them for telling the story so thoughtfully

Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is caused by lack of blood flow and oxygen to the brain at birth. But what if a little blue pill could change everything? Yes, *that* blue pill. Read more about Montreal doctor @PiaWintermark's once-unorthodox idea: begiant.ca/stories/people…

A B.C. wildfire destroyed Alex Deslauriers' family property in 2023. His response? @FireSwarmInc – a company using AI-powered drone swarms to fight fires at night, when human pilots are grounded. Read @OmarMouallem's longread: begiant.ca/stories/ideas/…

With his not sorry Substack, Bryan Danielson is trying to bring attention to the world-beating Canadian companies who are making a mark despite the widespread belief that leaving for the United States is the key to success. begiant.ca/stories/people…

Update: The Canadian 911 AI startup @call_hyper Be Giant recently covered was acquired by @motosolutions this week. Hyper says it can speed up response times and help save lives using its voice agent as a filter to help dispatchers address real emergencies begiant.ca/stories/people…

Our oceans are the world's biggest carbon sinks, but absorbing CO2 is making them more acidic. Two Nova Scotia startups, Planetary Technologies and CarbonRun, are scaling "ocean alkalinity enhancement" to fix this problem. Full story by @theturner: begiant.ca/stories/ideas/…

In Newfoundland, a patient might travel nine hours to St. John’s just to have a cast made for a bolus. But @PolyUnity has a futuristic solution that’s eliminating travel time and solving major supply chain issues: begiant.ca/stories/places…

Could drones and AI-directed weed sprayers be the future of agriculture? A family-owned farm in Manitoba has become the testing ground for new farming tech. Read the full story by @tomjokinen begiant.ca/stories/places…

This year’s Socratica Symposium @socraticainfo in Kitchener, Ont., was “equal parts tech expo, art gallery, arcade, nightclub and world’s fair, if said fair were organized by a bunch of hyper-online Gen Z geniuses who happen to be best friends." Read: bit.ly/4tBiKqZ

Across Canada, 911 lines are strained and wait times can be long. But a Canadian startup says it can speed up response times and help save lives using its AI voice agent to help dispatchers address real emergencies more quickly. Read our deep dive: bit.ly/4dZpSbN

“We’ve been saying for 10 years that Canada needs its own launch capacity. Only recently has the light bulb gone on," says Stephen Matier of @maritimelaunch. Here's why building Canada's space launch sites is crucial. begiant.ca/stories/places…

Twenty-five years after his own space milestone, former astronaut @Cmdr_Hadfield says @Astro_Jeremy's historic trip around the moon on Artemis II is a “wonderful measure of Canada.” Read his full interview: begiant.ca/stories/people…

Today, we’re launching Be Giant to report on the ideas that may offer solutions to Canada’s biggest challenges. A non-profit, non-partisan media outlet, we'll work with some of Canada's best journalists to bring our stories to life: begiant.ca