ThinkLabs AI has launched a specialized physics-informed AI Agent that provides utilities with immediate, data-driven accurate insights into electric power distribution networks. This new distribution system state estimation (DSSE) solution bridges visibility gaps in grid operational performance, offering utilities situational awareness and intelligent control. By estimating grid conditions, ThinkLabs AI Agent may help prevent grid congestions, integrate variable resources, and enhance operational safety and reliability.

Light House, an organization focused on advancing circular practices in the built environment, has launched the Building Material Exchange Marketplace (BMEx Marketplace).

The free online business-to-business marketplace allows businesses across Vancouver Island to list and acquire excess and salvaged building and/or design-related materials from reliable, local sources, explains a release.

Grand Forks is getting a bigger and better drop-off site for motor oil and other used automotive fluids. Interchange Recycling, announced the Bottle Depot at 8058 Donaldson Dr., has received new recycling infrastructure in the form of a 20 foot sea container with a 2,200 litre tank to store materials. 

Save-On-Foods has made a $15 million donation to BC Children’s Hospital and BC Children’s Hospital Foundation, the largest mental health donation in their histories.

Homes in Kelowna, West Kelowna, and Big White are among the grand prizes available in the 2025 Choices Lottery, in supports of the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Emmett Doolan, a 2½-year-old of Haisla and Nisga’a heritage from Kitamaat village, was diagnosed before birth with hydrocephalus, a buildup of fluid in the brain. After travelling to Vancouver for further tests, a scan showed a black mass sitting on her brain.

Funding for life-saving medical research and equipment in British Columbia is being "significantly" impacted by the Canada Post strike. 

Ocean Legacy Foundation, based in Steveston, has been named the 2024 Green Business of the Year by the Richmond Chamber of Commerce.

Stephen Lake was pegged for greatness early on. In 2011, the self-assured Scarborough, Ont., native was named one of the Next 36 – a group of entrepreneurial undergraduates selected by Next Canada for their potential to build big companies – while he was studying mechatronics engineering at the University of Waterloo. The wearable technology startup he and two classmates founded, Thalmic Labs (later renamed North Inc.) was Waterloo’s most hyped and heavily funded company after BlackBerry Ltd.

Two $3 million plus Kelowna and Vernon prize packages are one of several that can be won in the 2024 VGH Millionaire Lottery.

The grand prize winner can choose from one of 10 grand-prize packages including $2.8 million tax-free cash. The Kelowna prize home, located at Trailhead at the Ponds (1062 Emslie Street), is worth over $3 million. 

Gil Yaron, managing director of circular innovation at Light House, a Vancouver-based organization dedicated to advancing circular and regenerative practices, outlined a new building material exchange program on the Island. BMEx, headed by Yaron, connects construction sector companies that have excess or unwanted building materials with other companies that can use those materials in their operations.

BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute has found a way that kids’ immune systems might be able to be used to help fight off the most common type of childhood cancer.

Recycled rubber has gone the distance to build a new accessible playground in Vernon. The playground, at Maven Lane, was constructed with 1,009 scrap recycled tires from the Tire Stewardship B.C. (TSBC). 

We have already secured a great amount of coverage for the Building Material Exchange (BMEx)! View the coverage so far.

Dr. Gregor Reid spoke on Global News Morning yesterday to share about the BC Children’s Hospital breakthrough discovery that could lead to prevention of the most common childhood cancer in support of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

It's time to get your tickets for the BMEx Challenge, a high-energy business pitch event in Victoria and Nanaimo.

The electrical grid is under historic pressure as the energy transition calls for the massive transformation and modernization of the critical infrastructure. Electrification, decarbonization, decentralization, and digitalization represent the megatrends driving the vast transformation of our critical infrastructure, costing many trillions of dollars. To decarbonize, we must electrify. To electrify, we need the grid. The grid is complex, and for that, we need better grid intelligence.

Nine-year-old Emerson from North Vancouver is now free from the constant fear of anaphylactic shock thanks to the Food Allergy Immunotherapy (FAIT) program at BC Children’s Hospital. After living with severe walnut and pecan allergies, Emerson can now safely eat both without fear, an incredible transformation for him and his family.

Emerson and his mother, Anita—a nurse at BC Children’s Hospital for over 15 years—are eager to share their story to raise awareness for the life-changing work at BC Children’s Hospital and to support the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation’s Dream Lottery.

Malcolm Berry became the president and CEO of BC Children’s Hospital Foundation (BCCHF) in 2021, but his fundraising career can be traced back to the day he walked out of a children’s hospital without his child.

Here is some of the great coverage we have gotten so far for Dairy Queen’s Miracle Treat Day 2024! Make sure you treat yourself to a Blizzard today as proceeds are going to BC Children’s Hospital Foundation.