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We brought a vintage Polaroid to the RBC-Eurasia Group Canada-U.S. Summit and asked premiers, ministers, CEOs, and a post-lunar astronaut one question: what does Canada need to do right now?
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The Be Giant team is on site as a media partner at the
@eurasiagroup.net and RBC 2026 US-Canada summit in Toronto today – and we’ve brought our Polaroid camera (!) as we work on coverage of the summit. #USCanadaSummit
Mike Greenley CEO of MDA Space and a speaker at the
@eurasiagroup.net x Royal Bank of Canada #USCanadaSummit, on how his company is navigating a more complex and contested space environment. #defence www.begiant.ca/stories/peop...
Dominic Barton, chairman of Rio Tinto, may have caught the mood at yesterday’s #USCanadaSummit perfectly when he declared himself a “frightened optimist.”
Here are Srivindhya Kolluru, Lisa Hrabluk and Tim Harper on seven of the ideas that won the day at the Summit: www.begiant.ca/stories/idea...
The World Cup is also a massive public health test.
Here's how Canadian company BlueDot is using AI to monitor infectious disease threats around the world to help keep the world’s biggest sporting event safe: www.begiant.ca/stories/idea...
The concept of Canadian Arctic sovereignty is rapidly becoming outdated as much of the world eyes the region as part of an intense global competition, a conference on Canada-U.S. relations was told this week.
Here's more from Tim Harper: www.begiant.ca/stories/idea...
What are the best areas for soccer throw-ins to maximize possessions? Tim Swartz, a stats and actuarial prof at
@sfu.ca, found throwing the ball a little bit backward or a really long throw work best.
How he’s using “spatiotemporal data” to lead to ⚽️ wins: www.begiant.ca/stories/peop...
Reports of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses are skyrocketing in Canada: in 2010 there were 143 recorded cases of Lyme disease; in 2025, 7,105.
More from rebeccaga0.bsky.social on why there's an uptick in tick-borne diseases–and hope for a simple home test: www.begiant.ca/stories/peop...
MDA Space CEO Mike Greenley on space sovereignty, co-operating with the U.S. and protecting Canada from above
I’m at the World Geothermal Congress in Calgary this week, where I interviewed Eavor’s CEO about this ambitious clean energy project:
As fans arrive in Toronto and Vancouver for the 2026 World Cup, Canadian predictive health platform BlueDot is using global transit data to track viral threats in real time
Calgary-based Eavor made history last year by sending power to an electrical grid using a first-of-its-kind closed-loop geothermal system in Germany.
Now it wants to unlock renewable geothermal energy almost anywhere on Earth. More from @katelunau.bsky.social:
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Biologist Vett Lloyd on the ticks that cause a red meat allergy – and her work to develop a rapid Lyme disease test
Fresh off landing the No. 2 spot on TIME’s World's Top GreenTech list, Calgary’s Eavor Technologies CEO Mark Fitzgerald breaks down their revolutionary closed-loop system – and why it scaled in German...
Calgary-based Eavor made history last year by sending power to an electrical grid using a first-of-its-kind closed-loop geothermal system in Germany.
Now it wants to unlock renewable geothermal energy almost anywhere on Earth. More from @katelunau.bsky.social:
www.begiant.ca/stories/idea...
Kate Lunau
At the US-Canada Summit hosted by the Eurasia Group and RBC, experts chart paths forward through the current polycrises
Fresh off landing the No. 2 spot on TIME’s World's Top GreenTech list, Calgary’s Eavor Technologies CEO Mark Fitzgerald breaks down their revolutionary closed-loop system – and why it scaled in German...
