Calgary’s Next Economy

In a sense, Owen Kinch wants the parts of a farm to run themselves. Kinch, a Saskatchewan grain farmer, said with the increase in the size of farming operations, it makes sense to find ways […]

The journey for Edmonton’s Barry Farquarson has spanned the past decade. At first, he was doing consulting work for the pair he now partners with in the biomedical / agri-tech field. Farquarson was helping the […]

If you’re just relying on Mother Nature to dry your grain, you’re doing it wrong, say the founders of Calgary start up with a simple solution for any bin. Glenn Wilde and Kent Gulka, engineers […]

Innovation is often summed up by the cliché: Building a better mousetrap. For Mitch and Shane Dawson, both in the Alberta cattle industry, they saw a system still done on paper that they could automate. […]

Hilal Gul said her daughter Hazel was the inspiration for starting MySteM Biotechnologies. Gul, an Edmonton-based biomedical scientist, and founder of MySteM, said while she was pregnant with Hazel, she did a lot of reading […]

The start to the Berezan family’s journey into entrepreneurial world began like many Calgary stories in recent years. Both Daniel and his wife Joanne left Calgary’s oil and gas industry four years ago looking for […]

When Shawn Leggett looks back at the evolution of his company’s products, it went from something you put in a campfire to something you can eat. It’s all based around the idea of upcycling products […]

When Damir Knezevic went to buy pot on Canada’s first day of legalization in 2018, he described the day as chaotic. It was a monumental moment and the day was sunny and warm. “We didn’t […]