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I had a great childhood in Canada. I'm from a small town in Ontario with a really tiny population. There were a lot of lakes, really long winters, and a real focus on outdoor living. But as much as I love my hometown, it felt a little closed off from the world . As soon as I graduated high school I decided to go volunteer in Central America. We hadn't traveled much while I was growing up, so my family was terrified. I spent months in Costa Rica just being young and free , it felt amazing. When I came home I didn't feel ready to go to college. I was still trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life , so I moved back home and worked as a waitress in a diner. I planned to save as much money as I could. The next year I decided to go to college, where I studied massage therapy for three years. But once I'd left university I felt the itch to travel again and started working in hospitality to save up. Katie Hillier, 30 , and her fiancé Harry Bunton, 38 , wi...

Break out the cheese curds and gravy as the world’s largest travelling poutine festival is coming to Brampton . Poutine Feast is rolling into town on Sept. 29 for four days of food trucks and vendors celebrating the uniquely Canadian dish of french fries and cheese curds smothered in gravy. Poutine lovers will have plenty of varieties to choose from at the Feast including gourmet twists on the Canadian classic and gluten- free options, as well as vegan and vegetarian choices. There will also be family-friendly entertainment and activities to round out the festival experience. Entry into the festival is free, but there are also VIP ticket packages available for $75 each which includes table service, line skipping, food and drinks, and even a gift bag filled with goodies from festival sponsors. Brampton Poutine Feast runs from Thursday, Sept. 29 to Sunday, Oct. 2 at Rosalea Park. Police search for missing Brampton man last seen near Canada's Wonderland Mississauga Y2...

Americans are “always in a hurry” , wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in “Democracy in America”, his opus published in 1835 . Until the covid-19 pandemic , nowhere was this more evident in recent decades than in packed trains at peak times as people commuted to work . Almost 75% of professionals in America say the journey is what they dread most about going back to the office. Working remotely a few days a week is here to stay. Rush-hour traffic, overcrowded trains, and transport strikes (like those on London ’s tube in the past week) all argue for working from home . Across America and Europe rising fares eat into people’s salaries. The outcry for lower carbon emissions adds additional weight to the argument for millions of employees not undertaking unnecessary journeys. In some emerging cities, getting to work involves honks and epic gridlock as well as accidents. Every now and again, most people will nevertheless need to make the trip to the office and back. Whether you are walking,...

Traders working at the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE  Investors have dumped tech stocks recently, but indicators make it look like the worst of the selloff is over.  The Nasdaq Composite has dropped about 8% since hitting a multi-month peak in mid-August . Driving that has been a rising 10 -year Treasury yield. That makes future profits less valuable—and many fast-growing tech companies are expecting a bulk of their profits to come far into the future. Pushing the yield higher has been rising short-term yields. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made clear at the annual Jackson Hole economic symposium that the central bank intends to lift rates aggressively in order to combat inflation.  The good news is: It looks like investors can only get more interested in tech from here. Last week, roughly a net $2 billion flowed out of technology stock funds, according to Bank of America. That’s the largest outflow since November 2021. Weekly outflows from tech, though, ra...

Here are three key takeaways after members of the Texas Tech staff spoke to the media on Monday : 1. Three-Headed Monster The biggest storyline around this Texas Tech offseason has been the quarterback battle. Tyler Shough started four games in 2021 before suffering a broken collarbone. Donovan Smith then filled his shoes in a big way, which ended with him winning offensive MVP in the Liberty Bowl. Behren Morton is one of the most prized recruits in Red Raider history. But despite the three-man race, offensive coordinator Zach Kittley had unhesitant confidence when discussing his starter. “If you were in this building . . . It was pretty apparent that Tyler Shough should be QB1 around here,” Kittley said. Despite Shough being tabbed as the starting quarterback, head coach Joey McGuire has been insistent that all three quarterbacks will see game time against Murray State on September 3. “It will be packaged for the other two guys that come in,” McGuire said about Smith and Morton. “...

A deep tech company is a very different beast than a typical technology company. Although there isn't a universally accepted definition, deep tech generally refers to the development of a fundamentally new technology platform as opposed to using existing technology in a new way. For most tech companies, the primary challenge is a market risk —i.e., whether enough people will buy your product. However, with deep tech, the main risk is not finding the right market but, rather, proving the underlying technology. If you get the technology right, there should be an obvious addressable market , including the potential for applications that haven't been thought of yet. Below are a few lessons from our experiences at PragmatIC Semiconductor that could help founders currently building deep tech companies: 1. Don't compare milestones. Deep tech companies inevitably take longer to grow because of the time taken for the technology to mature. The things you focus on may look very diff...

It was a running joke in the late 1990 s at Goldman Sachs that its well-to-do clients would call the investment bank to learn the predictions of the firm’s economists, only to commit capital to outcomes opposite the predictions. Apparently, the contrarian trades were lucrative. This brings us to former Bank of Canada and Bank of England's central banker , Mark Carney. Carney is a former Goldman employee, which probably shouldn’t surprise us. Central bankers have long mirrored Goldman’s economists when it comes to incorrect predictions. Give Carney credit that he knows well where he’ll fit in. The Wall Street Journal recently reported on Carney’s claim that “The long era of low inflation, suppressed volatility, and easy financial conditions are ending.” Oh, dear. If Carney is believed, fixing inflation is herculean in concert with natural barriers to credit growth. With inflation first in mind imagine Carney being in a position of power back in 1920 s Germany. The mark had coll...

(Bloomberg) -- Global inflation is finally coming off the boil, even if it’s set to remain far too hot for the liking of the world’s central bankers. As economic growth slows, prices for key raw materials — from oil to copper and wheat — have cooled in recent weeks, taking pressure off the cost of manufactured goods and food. And it’s getting cheaper to move those things around, as supply chains slowly recover from the pandemic . After the worst price shock in decades, the speed at which relief arrives will vary, with Europe in particular still struggling. But for the world as a whole, analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co. estimate that consumer-price inflation will fall to 5.1% in the second half of this year — roughly half of what it was in the six months through June. “The inflation fever is breaking,” says Bruce Kasman, the bank’s chief economist. That doesn’t mean an early return to the subdued inflation that much of the world enjoyed before the twin shocks of Covid-19 and th...

Inflation has hit  Americans  where it hurts most: our wallets. Though inflation looks like it’s cooling down, it’s still untenable for families who are barely getting by — and that’s a lot of families. According to a recent report by LendingClub,  61%  of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck in April 2022 — up from   52%   in April 2021. The Future of Finances: Gen Z & How They Relate to MoneyFind Out: Do’s and Don’ts of Dollar Store Shopping Dealing with inflation while living paycheck to paycheck isn’t easy, to say the least, and one just scraping by has to wonder: How do I meet my needs during inflation when I was already struggling before ? GOBankingRates consulted finance experts for their best tips on how to deal with inflation when you’re living paycheck to  paycheck. Make a Spending Plan You Can Follow “ Take into account a spending plan you can follow ,”  said Levon Galstyan, a CPA at Oak View Law Group. “ F...

Intent-based   marketing is a method that is used to create more traffic for a product or service. This is used to detect and   influence   consumers based on their wants and needs at the moment. Using SEO, or search engine optimization helps them by simply using keywords to further improve their search for a product or service. Businesses are using this type of marketing on a  daily  basis. Below, nine Forbes Communications Council members show how this type of marketing can help bring in more  customers. Forbes Communications Council members share ways that intent-based marketing brings in more traffic 1. Helps Identify Customer Behavior Potential buyers’ behavior leaves a trail of intent-based data that you can use to identify users who indicate that they have purchasing intent. When reviewing this  data , you might find buyer intent keywords, common questions, topics, or pain points you weren’t covering or addressing. Use these insights to enhance ...