Juan Gavasa, autor en PanamericanWorld

Digital localism: A pandemic-fuelled response to the tech giants?

Retail giants like Amazon are blurring the boundaries of consumption. But thanks to platforms that link online consumption to local interests, the desire to buy local, a trend fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, is now giving rise to a new phenomenon known as...

MaRS Toronto launches climate-tech impact challenge for Canadian ventures

It’s becoming all too clear that ignoring climate change has a real-world cost — and it’s only getting more expensive. Climate change is a threat multiplier — it makes extreme weather events more frequent and intense, which in turn displaces populations, destroys...

Automotive in 2021: Ontario is Leading the Digital Revolution

A popular meme going around during the summer was a joke stating that COVID-19 has done far more for digitizing the world of business than any Chief Technology Officer out there. This widespread digital adoption is very true on a superficial level—we are all now...

Canadian Companies Rank in the Global Cleantech 100 list for 2021

Canada’s hot streak on the prestigious Cleantech 100 list is still going strong. For the past four years, Canadian ventures have cleaned up on the annual ranking of the world’s most innovative cleantech companies, and this year is no exception. Eleven Canadian...

Technology: The True American Dream is in Toronto

Canada, and especially Toronto, have rolled out a red carpet for highly skilled tech workers who are encountering more and more legal problems to pursue their profession in the United States. As graphically titled by Wired, a magazine specialized in the sector,...